I have an account with Vanguard. Every paycheck, I just open up the app and transfer some money into one of the three mutual funds I own (Total Stock Market, Mid-cap Value, and 2050 target retirement). Takes about 1minute every two weeks.

>>I’m a novice at this stuff. I just set it and forget it
>but
>>I want maximize my investments.
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>I just rolled over my old 401k to a rollover IRA with my
>cousin. He proposed I take a chunk of my savings and invest
>with them as well. I'm still mulling that over. I would
>classify them as an "actively managed mutual fund company" but
>he tells me they'd be spreading out my investments in 90%
>equities, whatever that means (anyone ? Bueller ?). Funnily
>enough I passed my series 6, 7, and 63 right out of college in
>2006 for a job I wanted but have obviously forgotten every
>single thing I learned from all the studying I did for those
>tests. The only reason I don't open my own account and not pay
>fees, and do "passive," as the OP says, is because I can never
>find the time / am largely too lazy to keep up with even that.
>I'd rather pay an expert, and the family fee to invest with my
>cousin is essentially 50% of what those costs normally would
>be. So we'll see.

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