Investment Fee Calculator
See how fees quietly eat returns.
Runs locally in your browser — your numbers never leave this pageTry: Initial principal=100000, Gross annual return=8, Annual fee=1.5, Years=25 → $100,000, 8.00%, 1.50%, 25, $684,848, $482,770, $202,078
How to use
A 1% fee sounds tiny but compounds against you for decades. This shows the gap between returns with and without the fee.
Formula
Loss = P·(1+r)n − P·(1+r−f)n
FAQ
Why does a small fee matter so much?
It is subtracted every year and you lose all the compounding on that amount.
Does this include taxes?
No, it isolates the fee drag only.
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