Friedberg: Social Security should be replaced with equity-invested 401(k) accounts
“Like, every American, instead of having a social security account, they should have the equivalent of a four or one K where they own stocks, and when they retire, they get all those stocks.”
Apollo is expanding into 401(k)s, mutual funds, and ETFs
“In the coming years, we've been vocal Figuring out how we're going to be accessing the four one K market, the traditional asset manager. So the mutual fund market, the ETF market, those are some of the places we're going now.”
Kleinman: 401(k) Market Is $13 Trillion with Essentially Zero Private Assets
“And for one K is going to open up to private assets. That's a 13 trillion dollar market that has essentially zero private assets in it.”
Varma: 401(k) alts will grow private assets to $25T-$30T in 4-5 years
“And I feel like if you look at private assets the market today is high teens, trillions, call it 18 trillion. You know, the executive order just came out in August to allow alternative assets into four or one case, which will make this a 25 to 30 trillion doll…”
Mogelof: Industry will likely develop daily pricing for private markets in 401(k)s
“What's more likely is we over time as an industry work on daily pricing, all of the various different private markets.”
Nagpal: Uses mega backdoor 401(k) to contribute $70K annually to Roth IRA
“If you can structure your for one K in a way that you can put in 70,000 dollars a year into your Roth IRA, which I do now, honestly, just the sport of the sport of it is, is fun enough.”
Busque: 65% to 70% of 401(k) participants don't know they pay fees
“It's like, 65, 70% of people don't understand they're paying asset-based fees in their for one K. No idea.”
Busque: TaskRabbit's early 401(k) asset-based fees reached 1.67%
“So in the end, the asset base fee for task rabbit early on was 1.67% or 167 basis points.”
Busque: Average 401(k) asset-based fees have dropped to 80-90 basis points
“It's not that way anymore. And I think guideline had a lot to do with that. But that industry average has come way down. It's now maybe like 80 basis points, 90 basis points or something like that, just fee compression over time.”
Busque: Guideline's first product was a 401(k) fee estimator lookup tool
“Early on, our very first product wasn't for one K wasn't guideline. It was really just surfacing these fees to the people that were already participating in a for one K. So we built this tool so you could look up your for one K. And we would give you an estima…”
Busque: 1.6% 401(k) fees cost individuals up to $600K over 20 years
“Like take it to an individual and show them how much money they're losing over the next 20 years just by paying those fees. And it's a large sum of money. Some of it is 400 to 600,000 dollars. The difference between 1.6% and eight basis points. It's a ton of m…”
Busque: 401(k) startups cannot run beta tests due to IRS regulations
“There is no beta at guideline because you can't sign up for a Free for one K like the IRS does not care. Like promise you that like you better be licensed day one.”
Busque: 76% of US investors first learn to invest via 401(k)s
“I think the stat is 76% of all investors in the United States first learn to invest in their for one K”
Busque: 100% of Guideline's 401(k) plans require automatic enrollment
“Today. A hundred percent of our plans are auto enrolled. So we don't have anybody that's opted out. If you don't want auto enrollment, you don't get a guideline plan.”
Busque: 401(k)s are the second most requested employee benefit after healthcare
“And for one K is one of those sleepy industries that you don't realize, but it's the second most requested benefit next to healthcare.”
Brown: 401(k) Plans Hold $11 Trillion with Bi-Weekly Automated Inflows
“By the way four one K is 11 trillion dollars, ok? People are adding to that 11 trillion dollars every two weeks when they get paid.”
Stein: 40% of Betterment users invested stimulus checks; only 15% spent them
“We're seeing another 40% put it into long-term retirement savings, things like an IRA, Or a four Oh one K and actually the smallest minority, maybe it's maybe it's 15% is putting putting that money toward say an immediate spending need.”
Cash Flow Mistakes Almost Forced Walling to Tap His 401(k)
“I messed up cash flow back in 2014, and it was really stressful for about six months where I was like, am I going to cash out a four oh one K or take out money on a credit card”
Working through one's sixties can easily double or triple a 401(k)
“Take those three factors, not taking money out, keep it, put adding more money in rate of return. You easily double your four one K, maybe triple it.”
Phil Town: Most People Are Merely Speculating With Their 401(k)s
“Everything else is just absolute speculation. And that's what most people are doing with their four or one case. They're speculating.”