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- Offer from Vanguard I got an offer from Vanguard for IT Delivery Manager role. I find it low. Not sure , how much I can negotiate. How are the salaries at Vanguard? Any insights will be appreciated.
- Which brokerage account to choose? Want to open a brokerage account, but unsure of what the best options are. I’m 25, and don’t want to actively manage anything. My 401k is with Vanguard and my Employee stock plan is with Morgan Stanley. I have about $250k in cash savings right now. Questions: 1. Who should I open a brokerage accou
- link Vanguard is shit "Vanguard accused of barring a client's trade" https://www.inquirer.com/business/vanguard-restricts-trading-spacs-customer-complaints-robinhood-ipo-20210730.html?outputType=amp Not good customer support even for high networth individual. Even RH has customer support now. Dont get me started in UI.
- CD’s that pay 5-6% interest short term I was going through vanguard CD options and only see CD’s for 1 year lock in period, offering less than 1% interest. I heard Fidelity has CD’s offering 5% interest for 1 year lock in period. Where or how do I find similar CD’s in Vanguard? What CD’s are you investing in vanguard for short term which
- vote Good HSA index fund from this list My HSA admin offers some Vanguard funds for investment. What's the best one from this list?
- Is Amazon offering mega backdoor for their 401K Former Amazonian here - just read through the pamphlet of transitioning from Vanguard to Fidelity, did i read it right that Amazon is finally offering mega backdoor?
- vote Should I join Vanguard or Amazon AWS Proserv ? Vanguard - TC : 155 base + 15.5k bonus + approx 11 k partnership bonus + 10% additional 401k + 20k sign on bonus = ~ 180+ AWS Proserv : TC : 280k ( 155 base + joining bonus + RSU) Vanguard is very familiar work culture as I am with them as consultant for last 2 years and like the work life balanc
- Vanguard ETF: BND, VTI, VXUS What makes these so attractive? I see a lot of Blinders recommend them. I am quite convinced with the numbers, but want to hear more opinions. I like First Trust Internet ETF (FDN) myself. Also I use * Stash (I will bail next year to avoid paying monthly fee and for better features) * Robinhood (
- Cost Basis method for mutual fund Vanguard offers 3 cost basis methods for mutual funds: Average Cost FIFO Specific Identification Which one should you use and why?
- Megabackdoor at Google Does google offer the possibility to have a mega back door Roth Ira conversion? Also, where are your investments and 401k managed? Fidelity? Vanguard? Else?
- Mega backdoor Roth at Square Does Square offer a mega back door Roth Ira conversion? Also, where are your investments and 401k managed? Fidelity or Vanguard or some other account? #square #megabackdoor #401k
- link Fidelity announced zero expense ratio Index Funds Can it get any better? Any drawbacks with these funds? https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/fidelity-one-ups-vanguard-first-company-to-offer-no-fee-index-fund.html
- Robinhood vs Vanguard for investing in index funds Hi, I am a new grad, & exploring a bit on investing in index funds. I want to get started but Vanguard doesn’t let F1 Visa holders(Non resident aliens) open an account. But I see that I can invest in Vanguard indexes using Robinhod. Is there any difference in their offerings, or am I missing som
- Transamerica 401K This is for my spouse. Her company offers 401k through Transamerica. Unlike my Vanguard 401k that offers a target year portfolio -- which looks simplest from setup point of view, it seems Transamerica does not offer such target year based portfolio. It offers limited options of bond, large/mid/small
- Employers with HSA plans and non-Fidelity managed 401k plans I know this may seem odd, but I’m looking to shortlist prospective employers that offer both health plans with HSA account and have their 401ks managed by an entity other Fidelity, ideally Vanguard, but I’m flexible. Blind tax: YOE: 10 TC: 210k #insurance
- Bitcoin: how to get started? Wanted to invest a small amount in Bitcoin. How do I get started? 1) where can I buy? I don't see Fidelity or vanguard offer this, so how do I buy it? 2) what should in use for a wallet? Are there any trusted wallets that have good phone apps that allow monitoring of the Bitcoin?
- Deloitte 401k is it worth to put in money. Deloitte is offering 25 % match on 6% of salary contribution to 401k. how the vanguard fund s have performed over last 5 years. anyone saw their money going up by 10%. which fund to choose
- Decisions Decisions Question? What role would you accept? Bloomberg - Solutions Engineer Macquire - Data Engineer Vanguard - Data Scientist Nothing special about comp offers. I guess more about quality of life, benefits and future career opportunities. Which position/company would you choose?
- vote Do you like the new Vanguard Mobile App? I have a bunch of accounts (multiple 401Ks, Roth etc) in Vanguard. I used to love their mobile app and one of things I particularly liked was the ability to clearly see balance by month and what part of what was contribution, what part was dividend, what part was gain/loss and starting/ ending balan
- Recently hit $1m in Wealthfront. Someplace better? I recently hit $1m in my Wealthfront taxable account. I haven’t been in love with their services and wish they varied their rates with AUM. I’ve looked briefly at Vanguard Flagship offerings. Does anyone have opinions on the best place to consolidate taxable investments to minimize management fees a
- 401k cutting out the middleman My company does it's 401k through Human Interest, which charges 0.5% management fee on the portfolio. I think that's ridiculous considering they offer a limited subset of securities you could buy anyways on your own. Does anyone know if it's possible to short out the middleman and go straight to fu
- Need pm job advice!! After many many months of not finding a job I finally got a PM job offer. However, it requires 80% travel all over the US. I know this is not sustainable for me but I really need a job and haven't had luck finding anything better. Is it wrong to go forward with the offer knowing I can't work here l
- Investing in pre IPO I want to invest in upcoming IPOs in US. Any suggestions about platform which can help me do it? I tried to do some research but all the platforms have ridiculous requirement (super high portfolio value).#investments #personalfinance I read vanguard, charles swab, robinhood doesn't support pre IPO
- life @Vanguard Malvern PA Position : Software Engineer. I’am currently working as SE at CapitalOne VA and looking for a change. Got an offer in Vanguard, Malvern PA. How is the work culture ? I have an option to join as contractor or as an associate. what would be the best option ? any suggestions?
- Roll over 401k? I transferred from Amazon to Microsoft. I have a pretty substantial 401k saved up in vanguard. Microsoft has the fidelity accounts for their 401k, but I’m not sure if the offering is any better. Obviously I’m contributing to get my match, but I’m debating whether I should roll over or not. Does anyo
- Vanguard 401k plan The investment funds in the 401k Vanguard direct platform are all mutual funds. Do all companies offer just mutual funds in their 401k plan offerings. Aren’t mutual fund less tax efficient than ETFs. Isn’t it better to just invest everything in ETF equivalents rather than Roth 401k counterparts? I
- Looking for Referrals: Group / Principal Product Manager YOE - 15 TC - 300k Hey Blind community! I am a group / principal level Product manager at a public company (Not Resmed), looking to move to a late stage startup / pre-ipo / public company. My interests are in developer facing products, platform products across tech, healthcare and marketplace indu
- VAN IS S&P 500 IDX TR vs VTI Fidelity offers a new (as of 2016) index fund, the Vanguard Institutional S&P Index Tracker. It appears almost identical to VTI. I could invest in VTI instead via BrokerageLink. Any reason to prefer one over the other, other than the fact that VTI has been around much longer? VTI expense is 0.04% w
- Reasons to stick with Robinhood? I switched to Fidelity today and I found out that they also offer commission free trading. Their UI isn’t the best, but it is good enough to get the job done. What’s important is that Fidelity (or Vanguard or Schwab) doesn’t fuck around with my money and their service is reliable. I ordered more GME
- How much you save annually? TC, household and saving annually? 400k, 1 kid, 120k. Edited: 230k + 170k from husband and wife. Salary + bonus. Not counting stocks. That’s windfalls and who knows if the ipo can work out. $6600/month on mortgage and prop tax. $5000/month for everything else: $700 term life insurance inclu
- Infosys or Travelers or Vanguard I did not have any offers in Dec 2020, so I accepted Infosys. Then recently I got offers from Travelers and Vanguard. Please see I already completed a few days at Infosys. What would be the best choice for me? 1) Infosys: TC 65k + 4k Location: Not specified yet. Remote as of now, but don't know whe
- Best place to invest $1m+ taxable account? Current Wealthfront user. Reluctant to stay and thinking about leaving. At a certain point (around $500k) the benefits of tax loss harvesting disappear because you can only write off so much on your taxes. At around the $1m mark, many places start discounting their fees or offering more services.
- 401K or not ? My employer doesn’t offer 401K match. I have been investing about $500 per month towards my 401K with Transamerica and 100% goes to Vanguard Institutional Target Retirement 2050 Ret Acct. I will have about 10K saved up by the end of the year. Should I max out my 401K and lock up my money till 60 yea
- Vanguard vs Robo-Advisors I was a happy Vanguard user for years, then jumped Betterment a couple of years ago. Now, I’m having reservations. Other than Tax Loss Harvesting, I can’t see how Betterment is better. I can’t see how Wealthfront is any better either. Am I missing something? The main thing the Robo-Advisors seem to
- 401K Allocations For folks in mid-30s, how does your 401K allocation look like? As a newbie, mine is set to Vanguard target retirement fund; which I feel not optimal. I was particularly looking for popular ETF options, but the Google / Vanguard retirement fund portfolio doesn’t enlist such options (or perhaps I miss
- PM advice please! Any advice for entry level project manager on how to get jobs? 1.5 year project manager experience 2 year swe experience Looking for non technical project manager positions. Getting a lot of rejections even though they're entry level positions. Any suggestions or advice on what I may be doing wro
- I think I have a solution re: this Google thing that will make everyone happy All you brain genius engineers who agree with the manifesto, the choice is clear: boycott Google. Don't send in that job app, don't sign the offer letter. Quit, and lead the vanguard of downtrodden men right out the door. Let the free market do its magic! If you're right Google will be dead within t
- Pm advice please! Any advice for entry level project manager on how to get jobs? 1.5 year project manager experience 2 year swe experience (hated coding) Looking for non technical project manager positions. Getting a lot of rejections even though they're entry level positions. Any suggestions or advice on what I m
- vote What’s best for my career , Remote Versus Hybrid Role ? I was offered a mid-level angular position at Vangaurd, which will be mainly full-stack, hybrid role. Manager seemed to be hard to read. I accepted an offer at ACA before I found out about Vanguard, and it’s junior full stack role, in angular as well. 100% remote. Manager was eager to see me employ
- Investment advice Noob investor here. Did some reading and dollar cost averaging over index funds seems like a good starting point. Some colleagues recommended Robo advisors (like Betterment etc.) that maintain a diversified portfolio and provide other services like tax loss harvesting, for a fee (0.25% + ETF expense
- Please Help. Referrals needed for London based companies! Thanks! Hello folks, I'm a backend SWE/developer looking to move to London/Europe, based in India. Please help me with referrals for London based companies except FB/Meta and Google as I'm weak in DP (working on DP improvement). I'm decent in LeetCoding and good in System Design (halfway through DDIA). I a
- Senior consultant role in Australia Hello All, I have one of the offer from Australian Company where compensation is 54 LPA(1,00,000 AUD) and my work experience is 5+ years and Current CTC 13.15 LPA (23,973 AUD). My current country is India. For couple of months I need to work from offshore and during that time compensation will be 2
- Roth IRA? And investment advice I spoke to Vanguard, Fidelity, and Morgan Stanley. All tried to sell me on their admin services so turning to trusted blind for advise considering most of you might have already gone through this. How can high earners contribute to Roth ITA with income limit? I can do backdoor IRA but then wouldnt
- vote Schwab vs. Fidelity I’m looking for a brokerage to do free trades of any stock or ETF in a Roth IRA account. So all that I care about is: - should provide Roth IRA account - free trades of any stock, ETF - high yield money market funds with low expense ratio where I can park cash I do not care about the brokerage’s in
- Got a windfall: where to invest? Managed to sell a small portion of my startup equity and have made 1M cash, which will be taxed at long term capital gain. Where should I put the after tax money to diversify? My current net worth not considering this sale is 800k split in vanguard funds and bonds 80/20. I also have a 3% stake in c
- Software Engineer New Grad Referrals Hello all, I have a strong full stack engineering and performance testing background and am currently a SWE intern at Atlassian. This year, I have completed 250+ Leetcode problems. In Fall 2019, I received 6 SWE internship offers from Cisco, Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Liberty Mutual,
- 900k (illiquid) TC but severely burned out Joined an early stage startup a few years ago when it was 20 employees and the business has been doing well with 300 employees now and valued at 500M. But I’m super burned out and there’s no way to fix it, no changing team, nothing else. I dread going into work every single day and am depressed all
- 300k CAD, Invest in Home or Wait, Help! TC: 200 CAD, YOE - 3.5 Saved approximately, 300k CAD so far, = Breakdown:- 120K invested in FANG stocks, 45k Invested in Vanguard High Growth / High Risk mutual funds Rest is Cash ( I know - big cash to offset high risk investment?? ) Married, 31, Planning first kid next year, sole earner,
- Opinion on better index fund for 401K After reading Tony Robbin’s Money Master the game book. I started regretting investing in high expense Mutual funds under my 401K plan. My employer’s 401K plan offers around 15 funds and the following two looks promising both in expense ratio/other fees vs performance since inception. Vanguard Inst
- vote Offer Evaluation I am a UX Designer based in Chicago with 3 YOE. Current TC: $115k ($105k base + 10% bonus) Offer 1: Vanguard CXD Team: Mobile App Location: Remote TC: $150k (130k base + 10% bonus + 8k sign on) Details: I LOVED the people I interviewed with, we just clicked. Sounds like a ton of growth in UX at th