402 an interview with Balaji Gopal from Vanguard Australia

In this episode Dev has a chat with Balaji Gopal from the Head of Distribution & Financial Adviser Services at Vanguard Australia. Dev and Balaji discuss:

👉🏾 the Vanguard Personal Investor platform

👉🏿 the cost of Australian funds vs US funds

👉🏻 is Vanguard chess-sponsored and if not, why?

👉 does it cost money to hold money in the cash account?

👉🏼 the auto-invest feature

👉🏽 why is there a lag between direct debt of money and landing into investments?

👉🏾 is a parallel auto invest feature possible?

👉🏻 dividend re-investment

👉 will managed funds shut down if new ETFs are cheaper?

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