Travis Kelce and others lost millions in a Ponzi scheme. Here’s what a basic index fund would have earned them instead.
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Celebrity-grade Ponzi losses are just a high-profile version of the same pattern hitting ordinary investors—complexity and exclusivity still sell better than boring compounding. If you run a company plan or advise employees, defaulting to simple, low-fee index exposure is still the most defensible move.
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