Nagpal: Goldman Sachs wealth management returned 6% versus 13% S&P 500
Ankur Nagpal · How to retire with millions (and pay $0 taxes) · May 14, 2025 · at 5:01
Ankur Nagpal, founder of Teachable, describes conducting a five-year A/B test by investing half of his startup exit liquidity with Goldman Sachs.
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“The best part of my portfolio that they did was simply indexing the S&P. The S&P has returned about 13% in that time. They did a lot of other stupid shit that averaged it down to six percent.”
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