A better retirement for every American? We’re on it.

Welcome to Basic Capital Zubair Khan Zubair is a back-end engineer with experience at Amazon, Snap and Capital One. Originally from the Washington DC area, he is a proud Maryland Terp. When he’s not shipping platform features, he directs his efforts towards finessing his points so he can travel. Welcome to @getbasiccapital Zubair!

What a week! @Abude_al_asaad spoke at Pensions & Investments DC East and the Milken-EBRI Retirement Symposium. He brought a simple message with him: Be of service. To plan sponsors, to participants and to an industry that handles over ~$10T of hard earned savings

We're reaching capacity but still have a few spots left to hear from @vaneck_us 's @matthew_sigel about the outlook for digital assets and how to think about investing in crypto for the long term. RSVP on Luma!

We're sitting down next week with @matthew_sigel from @vaneck_us to talk about the state of digital asset markets, long-term investing in crypto and how these investment options are coming to retirement plans. RSVP below!

Trillions of dollars flow through ancient pipes. We're upgrading the retirement investing infrastructure. You can read about it here on our new engineering blog

This was fun.

Are you building something in SoHo? Come by Manjul on Howard Street to meet with other NYC start-ups and hang with the Basic Capital and @get_tabs team before you start your day. RSVP below!

Cordelia is a backend engineer who previously led the data engineering team at August Schools, a documentation and alerting system for school healthcare professionals. She is a New York City native. She will be helping build out our internal tooling and refining our data infrastructure.

Originally hailing from Halifax, Daniel is joining us after 5 years in the Bay Area. He is a software engineer who built scalable HIL test infrastructure at Square and Amazon Lab126. When he’s not heads-down here, he enjoys board games and West-coast swing dancing.

Catch-up contributions now have to go first to Roth accounts for high-earners. But you can still do backdoor Roth? But watch out for the pro-rata rule. Also, are you married? Do they have a workplace retirement plan? Ask yourself, who benefits from this complexity?