Unindexed Fee Drag Auditor · Paraiba Wealth

Wall Street relies on you thinking 0.50% is a rounding error.

Stop guessing how much of your wealth is bleeding out to hidden fees. The Unindexed Fee Drag Auditor maps exactly what your Target Date Funds and retail management fees are actually costing you—and reveals your real return after inflation.

The 401(k) Autopilot Mistake Costing You $620,000.

The Auditor is free for anyone. Paraiba Wealth’s advisory services are designed for households with $500k+ in liquid assets ($7,500 minimum annual household fee). You’ll hear about both in the follow-up emails — opt out anytime.

The Problem Hook

You hit $250,000+ in household income. You think you’ve made it. But by the 15th of the month, you feel functionally insolvent.

Whether you’re at a major tech company or a corporate executive, your high W-2 is not an asset—it is a liquidation event. Between a 45% marginal tax drag, localized inflation, and the silent wealth-killer of the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT), your earning power is being structurally arbitraged away by a system optimized for extraction.

Before you use the auditor tool, watch this deep dive. We break down the exact tax architecture and high-conviction growth strategies required to stop the bleed, institutionalize your cash flow, and accelerate your exit from the corporate treadmill.

You max out your 401(k) and park your capital in the default Target Date Fund because it feels responsible.

Wall Street sells it as the ultimate “set it and forget it” solution. They charge you a 0.50% fee and tell you not to worry about it.

Here’s the math they don’t want you to run:

A 0.50% fee sounds harmless. But when you subtract that fee every single year, and stack it against the baseline erosion of inflation, the math gets ugly.

Over a 20-year timeline, that “harmless” fee routinely consumes nearly 9% of your total potential wealth. You are taking 100% of the market risk, supplying 100% of the capital, and handing over tens of thousands or more in your lifetime upside to an institution just for the privilege of generating average returns.

Diagnose the Bleed

The Unindexed Fee Drag Auditor isn’t a standard retirement calculator. It’s a forensic diagnostic tool built specifically for high-net-worth investors to reveal the true cost of “average.”

In under 60 seconds, you will:

Expose the Extraction: Calculate the exact dollar amount your current expense ratios and management fees will extract over a 20+ year timeline.
Reveal Your Real Return: See exactly what your capital is doing after fees and localized inflation are stripped out.
Identify the TDF Trap: See the mathematical drag of the Target Date Fund glide path on your early retirement timeline.

Built to Level the Playing Field

I built this tool because I was tired of watching highly compensated tech professionals and executives lose decades of compounding to retail financial advice. You don’t fix a structural wealth leak by ignoring it. You fix it by doing the math.

Wall Street relies on you thinking 0.50% is a rounding error.

The 401(k) Autopilot Mistake Costing You $620,000.

The Problem Hook

Diagnose the Bleed

Built to Level the Playing Field

— Alvin Yam, CFP®, MBA

Founder & Lead Portfolio Manager, Paraiba Wealth

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