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For a person 35 year old, $4,000 a year annual contributions, assuming a 7.5% annual return, by the age of 76, wow, if you have -- walk me through what you see here, a mutual fund portfolio, a little more than $2 million, in an etf, you would have had $3 million, so money lost to fees, more than a million bucks. why is this happening? >> what people don't understand is that when you buy a mutual fund portfolio, by the way, the portfolio we use is all morning star, four-star rated, mutual funds, the average fees on this portfolio is 1.39%. there is all kinds of hidden fees, but that's loaded up...

And in our example, 7.5% with bonds and stocks, that little 1.39% is a very big part of 7.5%. that's just what happens. >> you read it again also with mutual fund portfolio and an adviser and found that what you say are the losses are even worse. you got by the age of 76, same, age 35 you start investing $4,000 a year into your i.r.a., 7.5 return. in the end if you use mutual fund portfolio and adviser, it would have been 3.1 million and the returns lost to fees, 1.7 million. i should say what an etf is, exchange traded funds, things that typically have much lower fees because you're just trac...

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What happens when you don't turn off your electrical device in a plane? we'll be looking at a new study of safety in the air. and making money out of misery. we look at the traffickers in human cargo. well, the european stock markets have been open for about an hour now. let's have a look at how they faired. yesterday we did see a third straight day of losses for some of these markets. the dax basically flat. and as you can see, the ftse down by about .6%. and the currency markets, there's not an awful lot of movement either. the euro is down against the dollar at the moment. just below $1...