They also reinvest dividends automatically, and rebalance automatically when you add new funds so you aren't over allocated in a particular class of assets.
Tax loss harvesting is limited to 3000 per year, but you can carry over until you've exhausted the losses.
Of course TLH is only good if you're in a taxable account with them.
I also don't buy it being easy- particularly with trying to avoid the pitfalls of wash sales and the paperwork to actually claim it.
The value of which is maybe dubious, as pointed out elsewhere in the thread. It doesn't need to be done frequently, if at all, and is pretty trivial with a simple 3-fund portfolio.
> Tax loss harvesting is limited to 3000 per year, but you can carry over until you've exhausted the losses.
Right. But you only get so many working years.
> Of course TLH is only good if you're in a taxable account with them.
> I also don't buy it being easy- particularly with trying to avoid the pitfalls of wash sales and the paperwork to actually claim it.
You need to be aware of how wash sales work even if you use a robo-advisor to do the TLH. You need to be sure you don't have substantially equivalent securities in your IRAs and 401(k), etc. The actual mechanic is pretty easy — sell one index fund (with shares held over 30 days), buy another extremely similar index (but not the exact same index).
As far as the paperwork — it's imported automatically with Turbotax etc and is exactly the same paperwork as is needed for capital gains.
TLH is also only good while you're working. If you have enough TLH saved up to cover the rest of your working years at $3k/year, you can stop paying the robo-advisor premium.
Tax loss harvesting is limited to 3000 per year, but you can carry over until you've exhausted the losses.
Of course TLH is only good if you're in a taxable account with them.
I also don't buy it being easy- particularly with trying to avoid the pitfalls of wash sales and the paperwork to actually claim it.