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[dedalus_stephen]

Just diversified my retirement portfolio. Seriously. For those of you not in the know, Trader Joe's creates a retirement fund for part-time employees after working for a year. Every year you work there gets you another 20% vested into your retirement fund. So, if you work 700+ hours your first year at TJ's, they throw 15.4% of your annual income

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[ladyofthefae]

Yup. That's pretty much what I did, with my own money.

I'm using Fidelity, which I've had a good experience with so far. Maybe you're using them too? They have various investment options that allows you to manage it all yourself or put it in one of their pre-designed funds so you can just forget about it. I picked the Freedom Fund... it begins by investing your money in more high-risk areas, but over time become more cautious as you near retirement.

All quite titillating :)

[dedalus_stephen]

TJ's uses American Funds so I've just been using that. They have goal-date oriented funds, but right now I don't want to bother with them. Just investing in the highest risk funds I can. Only have like $3k in there right now and I'm hoping to get it as large as possible before I leave TJ's. I even updated my stock ticker on my desktop to reflect the top 20 stocks the funds invest in. It really is pretty fun.

[fragnarok]

American Funds is what I have through work. Kinda sucked that the first year I could really contribute a lot, my investments got the shit kicked out of them. Whatever, shares are shares amirite?

[fragnarok]

Fidelity rox. Karen does some things with them.