Thread regarding Wells Fargo & Co. layoffs

Empower is garbage

  • Awful fee scale.
  • Intentionally not user-friendly.
  • Makes users dig to learn typical homepage dashboard info.

WF really dug deep to get the Pinto of management platforms.

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Post ID: @OP+1kpjUgil

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It is definitely garbage. The site annoys me so much, I avoid going onto it. The retirement calculators don't work correctly so I ignore those. But the worst is trying to change the percentage that you have in each of your funds. It won't let you go over 100% (even temporarily while you're trying to work down the list) so it randomly lowers something you just entered and then you have to figure out which it lowered. I've figured out that locking the percentages helps with that, but I have to write everything down before I even start now.

I need to do what someone else suggested and invest only the 6% for the match and then invest the rest elsewhere.

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Post ID: @3xcy+1kpjUgil

Took a quick look for any positive reviews of Empower... nope....

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Post ID: @1cqy+1kpjUgil

It is kind of garbage, but I don't need them to do anything fancy. Just hold and invest my funds.

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Post ID: @bxe+1kpjUgil

@dos+1kpjUgil

WF sells the right to scam their employee base you are right about the fees

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Post ID: @ndw+1kpjUgil

The settlement was paid at the beginning g of this month.

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Post ID: @ldb+1kpjUgil

@dos+1kpjUgil we can look forward to our $.09 settlement in 5-7 years. How does anyone trust WF!?

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Post ID: @qeq+1kpjUgil

Ha! Give thanks you don't have Alight, can't even login externally, awful funds. Put in 6% and invest the rest wherever you want. The pretax benefit is overrated, way government is buried in debt they'll tax you very high in the future.

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Post ID: @hgl+1kpjUgil

They don’t want the users to be reading the fee terms. The fees are so outrageous it is borderline fraudulent, the funds of funds choices are clearly used as bargaining chips for the participating funds. Depending on your choices, it is a literal scam on employees.

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