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Fee

What a bank, fund or app charges you for managing your money, usually a percentage per year. Small-looking fees compound against you over decades.

In pesos: A 2% annual fee on $100,000 MXN is $2,000 a year; over 20 years it quietly takes about a third of what you would have ended with, and over 30 more than four pesos out of every ten.

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