For those that work in Big 4 how do you pick stocks to invest in if your restricted entities list i imagine is almost all public companies worth investing in?

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I just invest in mutual funds and ETFs. Makes life easier.

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Just don’t report it and you’ll be fine. It’s not like they have a way to find out until you’re getting an independence audit to be admitted as a partner.

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Gives me hope to see the people at PwC have a good sense of ethics

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No one Big 4 firm audits a majority of the public companies so there are still plenty of companies to invest in. People who work in one Big 4 and are married to someone in another Big 4 have it a bit harder but it’s still possible. Many just invest in index funds and ETFs.

I always traded in stocks in a limited manner. I try not to dwell on those stocks I had to divest my holdings at a loss to then see the stock rise 200-300% years later.

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VOO/FXAIX, QQQM

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Check tracking and trading tool to pre clear/check if things I want to buy are restricted.

Get a bunch of tickers from wsb and run them through GMS

Huh?

Every firm has a tool to check if you can invest or not. That's where you start. I mostly do ETFs these days, because many of the companies I want to invest in are clients and are therefore not able to be invested in.

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