I call that making a car payment to yourself. You set aside that money every month so that that way the next time you need to buy a car, boom, you've already made the payments in advance to you. And it does something else to it becomes a gain. So I found when I'm putting that money away, instead of buying a new car right away, because what a lot of people do, they get done paying it off and they go, oh, my car's paid off. Guess what? I could trade it in and start this both over again. But if I begin this game where I'm going to pay myself this car payment, I wait until I have enough
#412: Taylor recently graduated. She wants to reach financial independence as soon as possible. What should she do first: invest or repay low-interest debt?
Carter doesn’t want to pay too much for his investments. He’s worried about the tax drag. He wants to know how to improve cost efficiency in his portfolio. How should he manage decisions about basis points, dividends and capital gains?
Our first anonymous caller has been working and investing for a decade. Today her portfolio is large enough that she and her husband can finally take a mini-retirement.
They’d like to rebalance their portfolio. They want it to reflect the fact that they won’t be working for a while. They’d also like to calculate how much money they need to travel with their children. How should they handle this?
Our second anonymous caller is worried that their portfolio is out-of-whack. Their money is in a target date retirement fund. They’d like to move some of it to a three-fund portfolio. But this is a scary time to sell. Stocks are low. What should they do?
Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I tackle these four questions in today’s episode.
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