{"id":5561,"date":"2021-06-16T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2021-06-16T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:06:39","slug":"can-we-admit-crypto-is-a-bad-idea-for-401k-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5561","title":{"rendered":"Can we admit crypto is a bad idea for 401(k) plans?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the 30 plus years of investing, investing in cryptocurrency has been a wild ride. Mostly ups, but lots of downs. What makes sense as a small portion of investments that I\u2019m willing to lose makes no sense as a 401(k) investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we do in our private lives for investments in our business, what we allow as an investment in a 401(k) plan is different if we are a plan fiduciary or if we counsel them. The wild ride of Crypto, especially the negative volatility makes it clear that it\u2019s a bad investment for most plan participants. When the crypto market plunged on a particular Sunday, I bought. Many 401(k) participants would have panicked and locked in their losses rather than wait the next day, only to see prices spike over 25% as a rebound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crypto is a highly speculative and unregulated investment, it doesn\u2019t belong on a 401(k) fund lineup anytime soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 30 plus years of investing, investing in cryptocurrency has been a wild ride. Mostly ups, but lots of downs. What makes sense as a small portion of investments that I\u2019m willing to lose makes no sense as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5562,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}