I just started a new job and received the Empower 401k fund options below. All of these funds appear to have high expense ratios (most around 1%) and overall don’t seem to be that great. I’m considering rolling over my old 401k to this new plan or an IRA. My old plan is valued at approximately $500k invested in passive total market index funds. I’m 40 married no kids. While I won’t be able to do the backdoor Roth IRA if I rollover my old plan to an IRA, I feel like the funds available at fidelity are superior to these. I’m just looking for another opinion on this before I make any decision. Thank you! American Century One Choice In Ret ARTAX - 1.01% American Century One Choice 2025 ARWAX - 1.03% American Century One Choice 2030 ARCMX American Century One Choice 2035 ARYAX American Century One Choice 2040 ARDMX American Century One Choice 2045 AROAX American Century One Choice 2050 ARFMX American Century One Choice 2055 AREMX - 1.14% Virtus NFJ International Value AFJAX - 1.3% American Funds EuroPacific Gr R3 RERCX - 1.12% Invesco Balanced-Risk Alle R5 ABRIX - 1.08% Invesco Developing Markets Y ODVYX MassMutual Global Svc. MGFYX - 1.13% Invesco Real Estate Y IARYX - 1% MFS Utilities R3 MMUHX - 1.02% PIMCO Commodity Real Ret Strat PCRAX2 - 1.45% Columbia Small Cap Index NMSAX - .45% Franklin Small Cap Value Fund FRVLX - .97% Invesco Discovery ODIYX - .79% MassMutual Mid Cap Growth Service.. MEFYX - .86% Virtus Ceredex Mid-Cap Value Equity I SMVTX - 1.02% BlackRock Equity Dividend MSDVX - .97% MassMutual Blue Chip Growth Service.MBCYX - .85% MM S&P 500 Index Adm MIEYX - .49% Loomis Sayles Strategic Income Fund Y NEZYX - .67% MFS Government Securities R3 MFGHX - .76% Invesco International Bond OIBYX - 79% Infl-Prot and Inc (MassMutual) MIPYX - .69% Capital Preservation Account CGPJQ0

My dog is currently 4 years and his Petsbest policy is due for renewal in 2 months. He is turning 5 in 2 weeks. The premium will be increased by 70% at renewal (from $340 increased to $599 per year). I checked with a new email address and I think if I get a rewrite before his birthday the premium will be about the same price as I am paying now (i.e. $340, and that's about $250/year savings). If I do the rewrite after he turns 5 the new premium would be $426, still cheaper than the offered renewal rate of $599. My dog is healthy and there has been no claims since 2021 other than wellness claims so I suppose there is no preexisting conditions. I am only a bit worried about the 6 months waiting period for ligament injury if I were to request for a rewrite. I am thinking about also getting an accident-only insurance from Spot during the waiting period to cover that risk. Has anyone done a rewrite before? If this is workable, is it a good idea to get a rewrite or consider switching every year before his birthday if the premium increases insanely, so long as my dog has not developed any preexisting conditions then?

I’ve been scrolling this thread trying to find the best option for mine and my husband’s dogs but it seems every option sucks. We have a 7 month old rat terrier and a 10-12 week old husky mix (not positive on age or breed as we just got her and she was abandoned by previous owner). I looked at spot but all the reviews are terrible, same with ASPCA. My biggest concern is the cost of preventative care like vaccines. Both are due for vaccines and I’m hoping to find a way to lower the cost somehow. Someone please point me in the right direction 😅

I feel like this rate is insane for me being by myself 21 year old male in a brand new $50k plus Cadillac, I do need the snapshot through progressive (absolutely hate that) but I have been told my policy is half what it should be anywhere else. Clean record but why is my policy so low? I have average deductibles and had a third party review my account and said the coverage is right where it should be.

Hi all, Just got my car back from a shop. Took over a month after multiple supplements and back and forth between geico and the shop. Geico ended up being $1000 short still from what the shop wanted and I ended up paying out of pocket to get my car back. Geico said they would not reimburse me (when I brought it up), however after some research and speaking with some on reddit and the shop, they state geico will reimburse me bc of my policy with them. Can anyone provide any insight or guidance in how to proceed if this is true? Thank you

I've always had a fairly good experience with State Farm. I had a fire claim around 10 years ago and they paid promptly. I also had a boat claim several years ago and, in spite of some issues, they paid that as well without too much trouble. Last year they increased my homeowner's premium from $2k to $3k; then in November a tree fell on my house. Most estimates for repair were in the $20-30k range. State Farm's adjuster said the damage was less than my deductible ($9800). I also tried to get quotes from companies that State Farm suggested. These seem to mostly be brokers for contractors and not contractors themselves. 2 never responded, 2 inspected and declined to bid, and the 3rd submitted a bid to State Farm that was the same as all the bids I received. As of last week, my adjuster was still "working on it". Meaning, I assume, that they were just going to wait it out until I gave up and did the work by myself. Note to State Farm: your strategy worked! Sitting on a claim for 4 months while a roof leaks is a good strategy for not paying a claim. I've repaired much of the damage myself (basic carpentry), I paid for the tree removal ($3500), and I'm paying for a replacement roof. All of the roofers who quoted said it would be $15k to fix the damage and $20k to replace the entire roof, and since my roof was getting old, I opted for replacement. I'm getting close to $30k spent. Yesterday I happily canceled my policy and switched to another company at 40% less for the exact same coverage. I understand that State Farm is in business to make money and not to pay claims, so I expected them to lowball the repair cost, but 1/3 of actual cost is just silly. What annoys me most is all those years of wasted payments for insurance that wasn't really insurance. Hope this helps someone else not learn the same lesson the hard way.

Basically myself and many many others have been scammed by this company. They have you pay the fee for diagnostics and then say they won't cover the item needing replaced. They offered me $500 for my washing machine replacement when the part alone for my machine was $2000. Here is a link to all the issues https://www.reddit.com/r/choicehomeclassaction/s/lijqv0C3xu Do we have a class action or should we all small claims court them? Who would I list (the ceo?) As the person on the complaint? They are already under investigation if you check the BBB website. Any advice or guidance would help. Location: Indiana

So someone hit me yesterday on the highway, totalled my car and injured me pretty badly. Since I was hurt the officers rushed me into an ambulance before I could exchange information. one of the officers told me that he could provide me with the other drivers information after I got care and he gave me his card to call him, it has the case no. as well. Now today I call, they’re telling me that they cannot give that information out until the crash report is done and that they’re waiting on a signature. So I’m stumped, but like ok, I’ll just keep checking and then I’ll file. AND THEN as soon as I get off the phone I got a call from *my* insurance. The driver that hit me, somehow has my insurance and information and he filed a claim against my insurance. Basically saying my story exactly, trying to claim I hit him. What can I do from this point? I could try to hire an attorney, but without having his information I’m stressing that I’m going to get screwed. 😭

Location: Florida So I'm frustrated with Progressive because they identified a person who was staying in my home temporarily and added them to my policy. This person has never driving or touched either of the cars on my policy. They supposedly sent out a mail notice, which I could not find physically or even in my email, where I'm signed up for Informed Delivery and would be able to see any envelope that said it's from Progressive. I looked through my email to see the notices dated months ago stating the persons name and that if I do not contact Progresive by January 16 that they would add them to my policy. I looked though the details of my policy today and that's when I found that they are listed as a driver. So I've been paying for this person to be on my insurance for the past three months. I have to wait until Monday to speak with underwriting to figure out what happened and what to do. My question is whether this practice is even legal in the state of Florida. From what I've seen, a lack of response of a notice does not indicate consent. My explicit consent was not obtained to make changes to my policy. I have not even talked to or seen the person added for months before the changes were completed.

Had 2 trees uproot one June 19th, one which put a big gouge in the roof and another broke a window in the family room. We have Erie Insurance, so this was in the middle of their IT outage. Luckily, we had ServPro button up the house pretty quickly. Erie was good with that, even though it took a week to get a claim number for ServPro. But after that, things have been moving at a glacial pace. Erie reached out on June 30th to say they were assigning a field adjuster. That adjuster finally showed up on July 7th. They mentioned putting the need for a structural engineer to look at the roof trusses, and they would put that in their report. They said it would take 2-3 days before the report would be shared with us. When we contacted Erie on Friday, July 11th regarding our report … our desk adjuster is out of office until Wednesday the 16th!!! Is this kind of timeline typical? I know the they had an outage. But it’s been almost a month since the incident. And between clearing the huge trees, the structural engineer, and time for the actual repairs … it will be at least another month before the house is repaired.