• Owl@lemm.ee
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      5 days ago

      if your retirement fund is in tesla stock you only have yourself to blame

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          5 days ago

          as someone who is very far from retiring i have no idea about how people manage their retirement funds or how that whole system works. youre right, that would indeed be quite terrible

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            5 days ago

            The majority of people with 401ks don’t actively manage them, it’s usually generic broad based index funds or similar, which at this point almost assuredly includes Tesla

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              How much better does the rest of the portfolio do after Musk is ruined and can’t buy elections, though?

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              seems pretty weird to me for them to include a volatile stock such as tesla

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                On a longer timescale, Tesla volatility was actually pretty low with a strong tend upwards.

                This is not financial advice yada yada but I’d recommend researching how ETFs, and broad based indices decide on what stocks to include.