Looking for thoughts on how I should handle investments. I make around 75k a year, have a comfortable 6 month emergency fund saved, and I have low expenses- car paid off etc. At the moment I’m using wealthfront and putting my surplus there, at this point I’m saving about 80% of my income. Have a 401k w/ 7% employer contribution that I’m doing, and some money in Robinho but that’s more for fun and makes up a negligible amount of what I have. Thoughts, suggestions? 23 yo btw

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Where the heck you work with a 7% match rn ?

I posted as a separate reply whoops. Look below.

It’s actually better than that, it’s a 3% match with a 4% automatic contribution, so if I contribute nothing my employer still contributes 4%. So if I contribute 3% they contribute 7%. I work at a federal consulting firm in the DC area.

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