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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 3126906" data-attributes="member: 3099">ETFs have lower operational costs and fees than mutual funds.  That's why I like them.  Also look at dividend paying stocks and funds and use dividend reinvestment.  I increased my holdings by right at 50% (number of shares) in about 7 years in a pipeline company.  When I bought it, it was paying 25% a year in dividend (that's based on the price at the time of purchase).  When it got bought out by another company it was down to 6 to 8% so that tells you how much that stock went up and it was reinvesting the dividend every quarter.  I had no clue the price would do that or I would be retired in a lakefront home right now and have a lot of land to hunt on.  That was a single MLP stock but there are ETFs and mutual funds that package these stocks too.</blockquote>