The near-universal popularity of tax-deferred retirement plans (free growth for retail investors, less churn for corporations, offloading of social safety net risks for governments) make me suspicious of them the same way I’m suspicious of mortgage interest deductions.
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The leap from basic portfolio theory advantage of bundles of assets over individual assets isn’t sufficient justification for tax-deferred accounts I think. Maybe index funds don’t index to the economy at any given time, but its natural frequency in the frequency domain.
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I think the major benefits of indexing, lower fee drag plus no exposure to manager bias in portfolio composition is independent of tax treatment
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Pretty sure that those last two are the same thing.
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