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Alternative Investments in Your Retirement Account: The Trap Door 🎧 #506 (Aug 13)
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Alternative Investments in Your Retirement Account: The Trap Door 🎧 #506 (Aug 13)

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How convenient that alternative investments like real estate, private equity, and crypto are allowed into retirement accts. Wall Street is getting another parachute. If and when Housing goes bust again, or Crypto has a huge selloff, or Private Equity funds tank because of over leverage, the average citizen with 401k, Roth IRA etc will be the ones hurt. Not the CEO of Blackrock.

To put it simply, imagine your broker allowed you to buy NVDA on leverage and if there is a systemic crash, your neighbor picks up the damage and you come out relatively unscathed. Transfer of Risk baby!

I highly recommend you read this below post by Bill Cara

BillCara.com
Is Private Equity the New Subprime?
In 2006, the Wall Street Journal asked me to assess the risk brewing in alternative investments. I wrote that it was "a financial accident ready to happen.” Months later, the floor gave way. Today, I see a similar pattern—different instruments, new channels—but the same core weaknesses. This time, the danger skews toward private equity and its periphery…
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The Threat: PE won’t explode—it will erode. Losses will emerge through:

-Delayed retirement distributions

-Withdrawal limits when you need cash

-“Smooth” NAV declines that surprise later


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