Brokerage Window

  

You know it as a “self-directed option.”

A brokerage window is the term for when a 401(k) plan allows an employee to use the company’s broker to trade stocks, rather than being beholden to how The Man invests His money.

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them for twelve hundred ninety dollars and 32 cents a share and buying them for

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