Showing posts with label 401kbrokers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 401kbrokers. Show all posts

Thursday, January 11, 2007

fidelity or 401kbrokers for our individual 401ks?

Based on an interesting post from My Personal Finance Blog discussing setting-up his individual 401ks.

I actually decided in the opposite direction: against going with 401kbrokers and instead going with Fidelity.

Although 401kbrokers does allow borrowing against a 401k account, I have a separate cash reserve, so that is not a significant requirement for me.

What is interesting is that I can invest in the various fidelity index funds, some spartan, mutual funds have expense ratios as lows as 0.08%. That sure beats whatever 401kbrokers offers, even if you can use Vanguard mutual funds - after all, they tack on 0.25% admnistrative fee.

Somehow I have a visceral dislike for any kind of aum based admninisrative fee.

Also, there's less institutional risk - Fidelity has been around alot longer than 401kbrokers.

Regards,
makingourway