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Microsoft’s 401(k) Retirement Plan Details

Cordant Wealth Partners

As you would expect from an outstanding organization like Microsoft, it offers a very robust 401(k) to help employees save for retirement. Tax-Deferred Investment Growth : Dividends, Interest and Capital Gains are not taxed within your 401(k) until retirement allowing your investment returns to compound faster.

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Why Portfolio Diversification is for the Ignorant Investor

Risk Management Guru

Investors are much better if they did their own research and concentrated their funds in companies they understood while benefiting from commission-free platforms available nowadays. Harper, 2006. Instead, investors should concentrate their funds in businesses they love and understand and thoroughly analyzed. Works Cited.

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Sometimes An ETF Is Not The Answer

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

There are two ETFs that target capital markets broadly, the SPDR S&P Capital Markets ETF (KCE) and the iShares US Broker-Dealers & Securities Exchanges ETF (IAI) that came out in 2005 and 2006 respectively. The paper assumed a commission of one cent per share but I don't think that is an issue anymore.

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Pain is Part of the Process

The Better Letter

3 Another study , covering the period 1983-2006 utilizing the Russell 3000 Index, achieved similar and consistent results. If you had invested $10,000 in Amazon at its IPO price ($18) in 1997, you would have purchased 555 shares, not counting commission expenses or fractional shares. But let’s suppose for a moment that you could.

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Bogle’s Big Mistake

The Irrelevant Investor

Since the end of 2006, active investors have pulled $1.2 It took me around five years and nearly $20,000 in commissions to realize that I was not destined to be the next Paul Tudor Jones. With people living longer than ever, we need to expect and be prepared to fund a long retirement. trillion into index funds.1

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Transcript: Jonathan Miller

The Big Picture

Listen, it’s always a good time to generate a commission if you’re a commission real estate agent. RITHOLTZ: So Reinhart and Rogoff had this wonderful paper, I want to say it was like 2006, and they looked at five financial crises. RITHOLTZ: It was great. MILLER: Of course. Just revised the cover. MILLER: Yes.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

And so he set me off in a direction that was practical and at that point, commission business that he generated was ginormous, I’m sure. 00:19:54 [Speaker Changed] So you retired if it’s not working and you move on to the next that. But if you go back to 2006 point half percent sounds high.

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