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 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 online payday loan no credit check South Carolina became financially literate and help them look at their investments.
And the thing that was you to? Which had been some schmuck underperforming the market industry if you find yourself asking them dos% per year, and you can churning the new account for example crazy. Thank goodness it actually was inside the a september IRA. That it was not in a taxable account ultimately causing big fees, nevertheless would’ve started if this was at a taxable membership. Just like the he was pretending he you can expect to go out the business, that he you may select holds. 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.
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