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Dr. Jim Dahle:
But if I just took the tax losses I have now and used them for $3,000 a year against my ordinary income, I’d have enough to live to be 200 or 400 or 500 years old. No problem. I got plenty of tax losses.
Dr. Jim Dahle:
So, the idea of accumulating more of them is not particularly appealing to me, not something I would pay a large fee for. For example, let’s say, this advisor wants to charge you 1% a year to do this. Say you have a $5 million portfolio. That’s $50,000 a year. How is he possibly ever going to recoup that cost by providing enough value with tax-loss harvesting? He’s not, especially when there’s the risk of underperformance that comes from taking on the uncompensated risk that comes with individual stocks.
Dr. Jim Dahle:
There are payday loan companies Ohio some things out there where people are basically trying to have you kind of build an index fund yourself, that might make some sense at some very low fee, but most of the people trying to sell you actively managed accounts or active managed services end up providing you what my parents had when I first became financially literate and help them look at their investments.
And you will what was you to definitely? Which had been particular schmuck underperforming the marketplace whenever you are asking them dos% annually, and churning the new membership including enraged. Thank goodness it was for the a september IRA. This wasn’t inside the a taxable membership leading to substantial taxation, however it would’ve already been if this was at a taxable membership. As he had been pretending that he could big date the marketplace, that he you’ll select brings. In which he didn’t.
Dr. Jim Dahle:
All I had to do was show him what his money would’ve done if I put it in a total stock market index fund, and all of a sudden, my parents didn’t want to be with that advisor anymore.
Dr. Jim Dahle:
And I suspect you’re in a similar situation. I don’t have enough specifics. You didn’t leave enough information, but those are my general thoughts on actively managed accounts. So, it’s very hard for there to be more value provided than the fee that is being charged on those, especially if their big claim is that they’re going to make it back on tax-loss harvesting.
Dr. Jim Dahle:
You can tax loss harvest with broadly diversified index funds and ETFs, no problem. I assure you the market will go down from time to time and you’ll be able to tax loss harvest. I hope that’s helpful to you.
Dr. Jim Dahle:
I brought Andrew, my partner in crime from studentloanadvice on the podcast to help us with our next couple of questions. Thanks, Andrew, for being with us today.
Pete:
Hi, Jim, it’s Pete calling from Boston. I’m a urologist in academic practice. And I have a question about PSLF.
Pete:
The question I have for you is, have you heard about this? What do you know? And more specifically to my situation, I graduated from medical school in 2003 so I was frankly too old for the program, but I have made 120 qualifying payments and work for a qualifying employer.