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In reply to the discussion: PBS Drops Another Bombshell: #WallStreet Is Gobbling Up Two-Thirds of Your 401(k) [View all]CountAllVotes
(21,073 posts)10. Some how not all all unbelievable
Presently, 70 percent of Americans who have any kind of retirement plan at their place of employment have a 401(k) plan. Not everyone is paying 2 percent fees. Some are paying more and others are paying less sometimes much less if using passively managed index funds. But, historically, Wall Street has preyed on the least informed and the least educated, which tends to be the poor and middle class.
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Wall Street, Wall Street oh Wall Street.
They make so much and you get taxed on that when they do.
When you lose, well, you lose.
Over and over again this cycle repeats itself.
Those whose parents were teenagers and young adults during this time (c. 1930 ... ) cannot ever forget either.
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Fire Walk With Me
Apr 2013
OP
Are you saying that the load the Morningstar (and others) report is not accurate?
BlueStreak
Apr 2013
#6
Agreed. And if a 401k only offers only high-fee funds and has a high management fee
progree
Apr 2013
#22
VFIAX - VANGUARD = member-owned. And Vgd S&P 500 fund has grown 42-fold since 1976 inception
progree
Apr 2013
#29
This is pure nonsense (broad-brushing). My 401(k) was mostly invested in Vanguard index funds
progree
Apr 2013
#11
Not a bad idea for a chunk of your portfolio to be in such barterable things.
AtheistCrusader
Apr 2013
#15