Re:Coinbase Index Fund
by proofofmoon on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @09:14PM
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Rebalancing cryptoassets on the same exchange (without withdrawing to a wallet [1]) doesn't require on-chain transactions. The fee would be the order fill fee, which for GDAX is 0-0.25%, much less than 2% of the account balance.
([1] For the not-your-keys-not-your-coins crowd: if you don't trust Coinbase with the coins, you can't trust it with the fund either.)
Another consideration specific to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is the relatively high transaction fee. You don't want to see your investments be whittled away by frequent transaction fees doing unnecessary rebalances. I haven't spent enough time researching cryptocurrencies to know how all these considerations shake out when it comes to this specific index fund, but as a pure gut instinct the annual rebalancing was less frequent than I would have expected from this type of fund.