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Re:Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to ... by abawany on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @01:13AM (#31820153)
I agree, though these can deteriorate too. I've been with Vanguard for a while but was astounded as to how much the site and the customer support had degraded. Kind of worried about them but not enough to take a capital gains hit likely necessary to transfer the funds.
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Re:Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to ... by smaccona on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:19AM (#31822974)
You can probably do an in-kind transfer (see [0] and the 4th FAQ at [1]) to another brokerage with no capital gains hit because you’re not actually selling the asset.

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kind-transfer-134617847.html [1] https://investor.vanguard.com/account-transfer/other-transfe...

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Re:Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to ... by aarbor989 on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @08:06AM (#31822920)
You can do an in-kind transfer to move the assets over to a new firm without having to sell first. Definitely works for cash, stocks, mutual funds, and bonds. Not sure what else you can do it for
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Re:Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to ... by heavyset_go on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @06:51PM (#31842907)
You don't need to liquidate and realize capital gains.
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