State Street’s Tiny Fee Cut Is Paying Off Big Time

How a small fee cut on SPYM attracted billions.
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We’ve discussed before that new ETFs — which are increasingly actively managed and chock-full of derivatives — are getting more expensive on average. But it turns out that costs do still matter.