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The first piece of bona fide financial advice that I recall receiving after I graduated high school wasn’t a rip-roaring stock pick or a clever way to beat the S&P 500
SPX year after year. It was incredibly simple. In fact, its sheer simplicity made it impossible to forget.
So, when I landed my first legit job out of college, I set up my company-sponsored retirement account, funded it, automated my annual increases and promptly forgot about it — to the tune, assuming markets roughly cooperate, of a seven-figure IRA by the time I’m of retirement vintage.