Official Investing Thread

Discussion in 'The Mainboard' started by Joe Louis, Jul 12, 2010.

  1. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    I'm higher than giraffe pussy currently so I'm ill equipped
     
  2. LeonardWashington

    LeonardWashington Leader of Tuanon
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    Are there any 529 plans that don't charge a management fee?

    Being lazy and coming right here after about 3 minutes of research. I am surprised Schwab, who I usually use, charges a management fee and my state sponsored plan charged a roughly similar fee of ~0.3%. I find this to be bullshit since I would just leave it in passively managed funds... is there a 529 where I simply select the investments myself and there is no management fee?

    I would surprised if there wasn't a state sponsored plan out there that charged no management fees, so wondering if someone has found this elsewhere.
     
  3. Joystick Izzy

    Joystick Izzy Well-Known Member
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    Utah’s has like a 0.1% admin fee with great investment options. A good choice if you don’t get a state tax break for using your state’s official plan.
     
  4. LeonardWashington

    LeonardWashington Leader of Tuanon
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    Awesome, thank you so much. I do not get a state tax benefit, so open to any state.
     
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  5. construxboy

    construxboy xenForo is the new TMB
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    Second Utah’s as being the best. Been with them for 17 years now. Great plan.
     
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  6. letan

    letan Just looking for the gator board
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    I use Utah as well for my son’s 529
     
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  7. billdozer

    billdozer Well-Known Member
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  8. DuffandMuff

    DuffandMuff Well-Known Member
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  9. BP

    BP Bout to Regulate.
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  10. FelipeG

    FelipeG Well-Known Member

    Lots of the younger generations do not want the responsibilities of home ownership in regards to home repairs & rountin maintenance. They had rather call their landlord to deal with these things. They also like the ability of moving more easily.
     
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  11. VASooner

    VASooner Well-Known Member
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  12. Tommy Jefferson

    Tommy Jefferson Well-Known Member
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    Lots of younger people have convinced themselves that’s what they want because the reality of home ownership is so far fetched
     
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  13. TDintheCorner

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    The longer I own a house the more I feel the same way.
     
  14. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    Owning a home fucking sucks outside of building equity.
     
  15. user15000

    user15000 Well-Known Member

    He can be as weird as he wants if his stock performs the way it has. I think he’s crazy intelligent and an incredible allocator of capital. I’m fairly sure I couldn’t have normal conversations with him because I’m not remotely in his league intellectually.
     
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  16. Det. Frank Bullitt

    Det. Frank Bullitt God Bless Texas
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    sounds like you should have bought a different house
     
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  17. Sportfan

    Sportfan From Six to Dumptime
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    So how are we gonna play this? Dereg and corporate tax cuts will juice the market to start but long term with mass deportation, tariffs and a more isolationist approach resulting in less good talent coming here, feels like we are in for some pain.

    I’ve never bought any of the international ETFs but I have a ton of treasuries I’d like to offload before Elon defaults on our debt. VXUS the standard?
     
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  18. billdozer

    billdozer Well-Known Member
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    Yeah VXUS.

    I guess for now it's still just hold and continue to contribute on a paycheck basis.
     
  19. BP

    BP Bout to Regulate.
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    Mass deportations won’t happen IMO without major changes. He really didn’t deport that many from the interior his first term. It’ll be costly and don’t think ICE has the manpower to deport millions.
     
  20. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    John Oliver had a segment on it a few weeks ago. It’s logistically impossible, never mind the economic devastation it would cause. It’s likely “Build the Wall 2.0” but an insane and scary proposition nonetheless.
     
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  21. Josey Wales

    Josey Wales Well-Known Member
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    Allegedly getting cops involved. Prob others, you know state guard in red states will be on board.
     
  22. Baseballman86

    Baseballman86 Well-Known Member
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    My number 1 concern from a purely investment perspective is his damn Tarriffs. Those have outright led to bankruptcy of a lot of American companies, and crushed consumers at the register on those items. I hope he leaves that shit alone
     
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  23. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    I imagine he'll use them largely as a corrupting influence, be nice to him, feed him money, and he'll exempt you

    classic authoritarian control
     
  24. Jimmy the Saint

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    This and it was just bluster that dumb voters ate up because they have no understanding of how tariffs actually work.
     
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  25. Gallant Knight

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    The best hope for the country is Trump not doing what he said he would do. Tbh tariffs are pretty far down in the list of things I’m worried about. The people he brings in want to do terrible things to poor people they don’t want to crash the economy
     
  26. rcragg82

    rcragg82 Well-Known Member
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    Made the mistake of not selling my green energy (solar, battery) stocks last week.
     
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  27. brolift

    brolift 2sweet
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    same. my SEDG bag is cooked.
     
  28. brolift

    brolift 2sweet
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    So with new regime approaching that pinky promises to cut spending and fed spending is like 25% of GDP, does the line still go up or do we get DXY to 200?
     
  29. Ray McKigney

    Ray McKigney Feel my ubiquity
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  30. Jimmy the Saint

    Jimmy the Saint The future is a benevolent black hole
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    We have a woefully inadequate number of prisons to round up 13 million people.

    American exceptionalism, y’all.
     
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  31. Struggler

    Struggler Well-Known Member
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    Prevailing wage projects built with immigrant labor. For a %, Trump will certify the payroll.
     
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  32. Sportfan

    Sportfan From Six to Dumptime
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    Wrong thread sorry
     
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  33. user15000

    user15000 Well-Known Member

    former ceo


    Discuss
     
  34. teel

    teel Schiano Man
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    Maybe being 2 years ahead of Ken Griffin on PLTR will get me one of those $450,000 a year internships
     
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  35. jcb-r

    jcb-r Well-Known Member
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    All aboard the CAVA train.
     
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  36. Gallant Knight

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    Wow
     
  37. ScFan27

    ScFan27 Well-Known Member
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    place always has a crazy line 11:30 to 1:30 so it makes sense
     
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  38. Gallant Knight

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    I made a bunch of money in chipotle ten years ago on the long line theory
     
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  39. burnttatertot

    burnttatertot No Whammies!
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    Blimpie shot up to over a 1,000 locations in the mid 90's, there's about 150 of them today. Restaurants are about as bad as altcoins and biotech stocks. The Mets will be serious contenders before Cava ever will.
     
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  40. Hatfield

    Hatfield Charlie don’t surf
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    Cava is dank though
     
  41. LSUTigers1986

    LSUTigers1986 Well-Known Member
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    I like Cava but once a month I have a moment where I miss Zoe’s. They could’ve kept a few of those items at Cava and I’d be there twice a week.
     
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  42. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    Cava has kept me from gaining 30 pounds this summer. Been traveling a lot and been eating there like once or twice a week. Really wish we had one here.

    Had no idea it was publicly traded
     
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  43. fish

    fish Impossible, Germany
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    One meal once or twice a week has kept you from gaining 30 pounds? Give yourself credit for being disciplined, bud.
     
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  44. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    Was speaking more in hyperbole but I just like the place
     
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  45. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    delicious and reasonably easy to be healthy places in the fast food game is indeed fantastic

    forever it was just Panera, which was over priced cafeteria food
     
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  46. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    If they follow every other company in the history of capitalism it will probably start to suck in about 3 years. The investors will get too greedy and demand operating cost cuts and they'll expand too much and have to live with lower quality ingredients
     
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  47. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    chipotle and sweet green style spots just evaporating large portions was sad

    0% interest environment led to some really dumb companies trying to build market share while losing money for long periods of time
     
  48. Chumbolone

    Chumbolone Wigglin’ my toes on a mink rug…
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    Cava needs to get that CFA consistency, quality varies wildly by location - and they’re always out of shit.
     
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  49. WC

    WC Bad Company, ‘til the day I die.
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    After a salmonella out break
     
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