The Lively HSA

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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by Kriegsspiel » Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:48 am

It looks like the Fidelity HSA is the best one right now, with no account fees and no commission fees. Well, none for the ETFs I am looking at. Any disagreement?
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by ochotona » Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:44 am

Kriegsspiel wrote:
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It looks like the Fidelity HSA is the best one right now, with no account fees and no commission fees. Well, none for the ETFs I am looking at. Any disagreement?
You've got it right. As much as I like Lively's customer service, the TDA stable of ETFs is definitely second-tier, and I wonder if they manage to survive.
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by Kriegsspiel » Fri Sep 06, 2019 10:58 am

Actually, I still have mine at HSA Bank. I'm leery of hopping from one HSA to another because of the costs associated with it (the account closing fee at HSA Bank is $25), but I figure that Fidelity's should be around for the long haul. I can only hope they don't change their fee structure and make me want to hop again, ad nauseum.
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by ochotona » Fri Sep 06, 2019 12:34 pm

Heaven just played a trick on me, my BP pension is leaving Fidelity! Well, still have other accounts there.
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by ochotona » Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:45 pm

MangoMan wrote:
Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:07 pm
ochotona wrote:
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I'm finding I really like Securities Alerts feature in TD, it's better than Schwab, way better than Fidelity. I'd miss it if I left Lively.
You could always open a small taxable account to keep the alerts flowing.
I have a $100 cashless taxable HBPP at TD Ameritrade now, LOL.

Sophie, it looks like it will be about a month end-to-end, cash transfer. There's a way to cut a couple of days off of the wait that isn't advertised:

- Scan Fidelity's HSA transfer form, and attach it to a Secure Message. I was told they can handle it from there. No need to mail the form to Cincinnati, or travel to a Fidelity storefront

- Lively won't let you tick the "transfer all" box on the Fidelity form yet leave the account open. To them "transfer all" means close the account. They were going to close everything and cause TD Ameritrade trading fees to be levied, because I had some ETF shares that hadn't been help 30 days. At least they had the sense to contact me, and I changed the transfer to a partial amount, and TD is open for now.

It's just as well. The Fidelity ETFs are better, no gotcha fee if you trade within 30 days, and no schelpping cash between front-of-house and back-of-house. I'll be glad when Fidelity has the money. They I will rebuy my gold shares possibly at a lower price. Here's hoping.
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by sophie » Tue Sep 24, 2019 12:13 pm

I can only hope it goes more smoothly for you than it did for me.

Be warned that Lively will block the transfer multiple times asking via Fidelity for a phone call from you to "confirm", because apparently they don't think the printed, signed form is sufficient. I think I went for about 3 rounds of that on top of a whole separate set of issues with TDA. HSAs for investment purposes have been well proven as far as setting up and maintaining accounts, but not so much when it comes to actually getting your money out again! Slight problem there!
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by ochotona » Wed Oct 09, 2019 5:56 am

Lively to Fidelity transfer done. Moving cash only took a month.
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by sophie » Wed Oct 09, 2019 7:46 am

Glad to hear it!

Selling out of TDA to simplify the transaction was a good move. Also, it's possible that my problem with Lively wasn't usual.
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by ochotona » Wed Oct 09, 2019 10:15 am

I rebought my old shares at the same price so that was good
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by ochotona » Thu Nov 21, 2019 6:24 am

If Schwab buys TD Ameritrade today then Lively HSA gets thrown under the bus, because Schwab has no HSA offering... It will go from being the Lively HSA to the Dead HSA, unless Schwab begins offering HSAs.
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Re: The Lively HSA

Post by ochotona » Thu Nov 21, 2019 12:27 pm

TD owns Wrigley?
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