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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 3340403" data-attributes="member: 5412">Just a question, how many of you folks directly control your portfolio? Do you trade personally or do you have someone as a second party that is watching your investments? A lot of folks have investment advisors within their 401K's to manage their accounts that they never see or know. It's just done with the investors request about how they want their money invested. Growth, Maintenance or whatever.Most folks that I know have investment advisors within their 401K's manage their investments for them. Here is the kicker, and something that I'm not sure about. Congress and those in the federal government employ do not have the same benefits as you and I. They have a seperate retirement program and do not participate in social security unless they take on a second job to acquire the necessary points.They do not have obamacare which is insanely expensive for the common folk.(We have to pay $1000 per month with a $5000 deductible) They have their own health care system that pays for pretty much everything. I'm not aware of how these senators invest their money. Do they have a 401K or what? I suspect they have something more beneficial to them than we have to us because they make the rules.</blockquote>