The Personal Finance Podcast

How to Spot a Fee That's Robbing You, Insure Your Kids' Future, and Retire Two Decades Early (Money Q&A)

The Personal Finance Podcast

Show Notes

Seven listener questions, one theme: the small stuff you never check is usually the expensive stuff. Fees, insurance add-ons, account order, and the plan you need before retiring decades early.

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What You'll Learn in This Episode

How to find the fees buried in your retirement accounts and what to swap them for

Why a fund's one-year return tells you almost nothing worth knowing

The situations that actually call for gap insurance, and the one place you should never buy it

Andrew's rule for financing a car without ending up underwater

How to leave money to a child with a disability without costing them their benefits

The two numbers that decide your term life coverage: how much and for how long

A full audit of a listener saving nearly 70% of his income, including how he reaches his money before 59½

How a union tradesman can stack a pension, a match, and a Roth to change his family's trajectory

A phishing text pretending to be an Amazon recall, and how to spot it

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Episode/s Mentioned

The System to Pay Cash For Cars (and NEVER Have a Payment Again!) https://youtu.be/kgmjjQEN3Xs

How to Access Your Retirement Accounts EARLY (Roth IRA Conversion Ladder for the FIRE Movement) https://youtu.be/ut8rDIJ1kSI

The 1-3-6 Method For Building & Managing Your Emergency Fund https://youtu.be/rGdII_Z0hnw

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