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O is a great recruiter and fantastic with boosters. He’s a steal at $100,000. He’s also an insurance policy in case Baker leaves for a HC job next season and takes the dline coaches with him.

Now we are not disagreeing and everyone is being reasonable (except for RickRoids). I have 2.5 million in assets and it’s all self-managed. But I also am good with numbers and probability (graduate level statistics training) and put a lot of time into educating myself about investing. My only point was that someone who is likely retiring around age 60 with no background in investing needs someone to hold their hand. They can’t make up a big loss at that age. The OP also doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

Most of my money is in index funds but I actively trade about $200,000 for fun. Not sure I wouldn’t be better off just putting everything in an S&P 500 ETF but trading is essentially my hobby. I don’t golf. I did consult with Ameriprise twice for financial planning and found it helpful for getting me to do things like wills and medical POA. They also did a projection of what I would have at retirement based on my savings rate. That part was pretty nice because I realized I could actually spend more now and enjoy things. I’m too contrarian to let them manage my money though. Like Jax said, my risk tolerance made them uneasy as well.

Landry should feel honored if this happens.

Hundreds of thousands in fees? Now you are just making stuff up unless they are managing Jeff Bezos portfolio. The annual management fee is 1%. That’s not awful if you know nothing about investing and they make you money or save you money with tax planning. On a $500,000 portfolio that’s $5000 a year for them to contact you monthly, do an analysis of your assets, and provide investment advice. I know I charge more than that for a single day of consulting. I’m not saying EJ is good for knowledgeable investors. I’m saying it’s good if you have no idea what you are doing…like asking for investment advice on a message board from anonymous yahoos who may be living in a trailer.

1. Iran got their shite pushed in. Anyone saying they won anything is a complete moron.

2. Why is anyone surprised Russia is helping Iran when the US has been helping the Ukrainians for years with targeting assets in Russia?

If you take this board’s advice you will end up losing a lot of money. Managing retirement funds takes knowledge, skill, and discipline. If you don’t have all of those things you should pay someone to do this for you. You don’t get a redo on this at your age. Good luck.

I am looking forward to the anti O crowd eating crow.

Report: Tesla to build solar factory near HoustonTeslaTSLA $412.95 (2.19%) is planning to build its solar panel manufacturing plant — an endeavor that could add up to $50 billion in value to its energy business — near Houston, Texas, Electrek reports. The plant would be located on the same site as its Megafactory, which builds Megapack battery systems. The solar plant is part of Tesla and SpaceX’s goal of eventually putting solar-powered data centers in space.

This is the synergy I’m talking about.

Edit: From today’s SPCX IPO filing “AI (xAI/Grok/X integration): Gigawatt-scale terrestrial AI training clusters (e.g., COLOSSUS); plans for orbital AI compute satellites (using solar power, starting ~2028).”

Paxton fricked someone other than his wife.

Coryn fricked conservative voters over repeatedly.

Vote Paxton.

I’m sure the Bama fan is much smarter than Elon, Bezos, and all the other idiots at Google who say space based data centers are the future. Ultimate has it all figured out.

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