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401K Explained in தமிழ் (US Retirement Series – 1)
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This episode and next few episodes are going to be US specific episodes. All these US specific episodes will have US flag in their thumbnails. Indian audience, feel free to skip these episodes and save your time. US folks, there are 2 main retirement plans in USA. 1. 401K and 2. IRA. We will cover more in detail about IRA in another episode. In this episode, we will cover 401K in detail. Hi. My name is Vijay Mohan. You are watching – Investment Insights. 401K is a retirement plan offered thru employer.
We will not be able to open a 401K account just by ourself like a brokerage account. We can contribute to a 401K, only if it is offered through our employer. Almost all employers offer 401K plan. Very few small companies do not offer 401K. How much can we contribute to a 401K? Each employee can save up to $20,500 per year. If husband and wife both are working, both can contribute $20,500 each. People older than 50 can contribute more – $27,000/year. That is called as "Catch up contribution". Other than our contribution to 401K, many employers match up our contribution up to certain percentage. Let's say that an employer is matching up to 7%. If our salary is $100K, 7% of that would be $7,000. Let's say that we are contributing $20,500 to our 401k and maxing it out. Employer would have matched up the first $7,000 of that $20,500 and would have contributed that $7,000 to our 401K.
So in total, our contribution $20,500 + employer match up contribution $7,000 = $27,500 would have gone into our 401K account. Employer match of $7,000 would not come under the contribution limit of $20,500. This match is over that contribution limit. In this employer match, each employer has a catch called "Vesting Schedule". This vesting schedule defines when that extra amount matched up by the employer is going to actually credit in our account. Let's say that an employer has a vesting schedule of 2 years, then in that 2 years, the match up amount contributed by the employer will be in our account, but not vested. That means, if we leave the job within the 2 years of joining, then we will not get that matched up amount. But after 2 years, that matched up amount will be ours totally, even if we leave the job. Also, after that vesting period of 2 years, all money matched up by the employer will be vested (available) to us immediately. That means, there will not be any restriction over the matched up money after passing 2 years.
The 2 years I am referring here is just an example. It will be different for every employer. So what is the advantage to us from this 401K? The advantage is, we do not have to pay the tax on the amount we are contributing to 401K. But we should pay tax on withdrawal after retirement. What? No tax for the contributed money, but taxed on withdrawal? What benefit does that offer to us? Good question. To understand that, we should know about our tax bracket.
What we are seeing here is 2022 Married Filing Jointly tax bracket. Let's say that our family income is $120,000. We will come under 22% tax bracket. That does not mean that we will be paying 22% tax for the whole $120,000 we earned. First 20,000 of $120,000 will be taxed at 10%. Next 63,000 will be taxed at 12%. Money earned over that will be taxed at 22% tax. So the 22% tax is charged for the top most dollar we made in that year. This is called as Marginal Tax rate. If we add up all the taxes for individual brackets of 10%, 12% and 22%, that comes out to $17,634. This is 14.7% of our total income $120,000. So actually we are paying only 14.7% of our income as tax. This 14.7% is called "Effective Tax Rate". May confuse between marginal tax rate and effective tax rate. Hope it is clear now. So when we contribute $20,500 to our 401K, it comes out of our top most tax bracket. That means, the tax we saved from the contribution of $20,500 is 22%. $4510. If we withdraw the same $20,500 after our retirement, the tax rate for that would be 10%.
Tax saved for contribution is 22%, while money coming out is taxed at 10%. The difference is 12% in our favor. Or in other words, we save tax in marginal tax rate for contribution and we pay effective tax rate while withdrawal. We all know that effective tax rate will be always lower than the marginal tax rate. This is first advantage. Let's check out a sample calculation to understand the next advantage. Let's say that our family income is $120,000. Then federal marginal tax rate is 22%. Let's use Illinois state tax rate – 5%. For 401K contribution, not just the federal tax, we don't have to pay the state tax as well. Let's assume that our 401K will be growing at 8% growth rate.
We are maxing out our 401K contribution every year by contributing 20,500/year. Tax savings from this contribution is 27%. $5535. We are continuing to do this till our retirement for 25 years. By the end of 25 years, our 401K balance would have reached 1 million 600,000 dollars. The $5535 that we saved every year in tax alone would have grown into $437,000. The absolute tax saved is 5355 * 25 = $138,000. The growth from that savings is approximately $300,000. Or in other words, just because we did not pay (deferred) the tax of $138,000, the extra growth we got from that is $300,000. The growth of money by deferring (not paying the tax now) the taxes to pay later is called as "Tax deferred Compounding". This tax deferred compounding is 401K's second advantage. For these 2 advantages, we can contribute to 401K. We should. So far we have seen a regular pretax 401K. There are other flavors of 401K like Roth 401K and After tax 401K. We will dig deeper into that in the next episode. Thank You..
Read MoreKevin O’Leary: Why Early Retirement Doesn’t Work
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This whole idea of financial independence retire early doesn't work. Let me tell you why. It happened to me. On the sale of my
first company, I achieved great liquidity and I
thought to myself, "Hey. I'm 36. I can retire now." I retired for three years. I was bored out of my mind. Working is not
just about money. People don't understand this very
often until they stop working. Work defines who you are. It provides a place where
you're social with people. It gives you interaction with people
all day long in an interesting way. It even helps you live longer
and is very, very good for brain health. Staying stimulated is how people
live into their 90s. I'm not kidding. So when am I retiring? Never. Never. I don't know where I'm going
after I'm dead, but I'll be working when I get there too..
Mastering the FIRE Method: The Ultimate Guide to Early Retirement & Financial Independence
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at some point of time you would have thought of retiring early or maybe you're thinking of it now and truth be told retirement is not about abandoning work there are very few who would say I won't work any further but what we yearn for is the freedom to operate to live life in the way we want and that brings us to the five moment now fire stands for financial Independence retirement it's a very catchy acronym and to put it in a nutshell it's a program that's designed around saving aggressively investing in high return instruments like equities and disciplined withdrawals which put together ensures you have enough money to cover your living expenses for the rest of your life and therefore retire early in this video I shall be explaining the concept in Greater details we look at the implementation steps some calculations and why fire needs to be a deliberate part of your financial life this might be a short video but it's a very powerful concept so let's begin the concept of fire was popularized in a book titled your money or your life it was built around self-sufficiency control over one's time moderate consumption and of course living life outside the nine to five for instance this guy Pete atney who is better known as Mr Money Mustache applied the fire principles which allowed him to retire from his job as a software engineer at the age of 30.
He's 48 now and he continues to live comfortably of his Investments after so many years and it's not just Pete there are writers bloggers people traveling the world software developers and even YouTubers who are using these principles to lead a more open life and have attached some articles and videos in the description to that effect some of these stories are really inspirational and it proves the fact that a little bit of planning on the financial side can have a profound impact on other aspects of one's life and in a very positive way now there are three parts one needs to address when implementing a fire strategy the first step is savings and the hardcore fire disciple is expected to save anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of one's monthly income this is of course easier said than done and probably where a lot of people make up their mind that this is not their cup of tea but from what I have read and what I've experienced the saving need not be always defined as a percentage and we can also work with absolute numbers which we'll see when I come to the calculations part now when we hear the word saving our first reaction or response is on reducing our expenses however money can also be saved by upping one's income which is what I suggest and it does make sense right I mean there is a limit to what one can save but income generation has a much longer Runway and in our case it can include taking a part-time job doing some consultancy work asking for a pay hike changing jobs for a better salary reskilling oneself or of course starting a side hustle which can be a mix of active and passive work in fact I have a friend in Bangalore who works as a data scientist from Monday to Friday and then on the weekends he takes classes on an edtech platform and also does some consultancy work to put it in numbers what was earlier a monthly saving of 50 000 Rupees is now easily over 2 lakhs a month and this guy has absolutely changed his life around by leveraging what he knows so he's on fire metaphorically speaking and the the fire strategy encourages us to find creative and better ways of increasing our savings rate the Second Step under the fire strategy is to spend wisely notice I didn't say don't spend I said spend wisely which means you need to identify what is an essential expense and what can be tagged as discretionary now people who practice Fire have a ton of helpful advice for us these include driving a good used car instead of a new one renting versus buying a house cooking at home rather than eating out track your daily expenses cancel unnecessary subscriptions Etc from what I've read these small steps can reduce your monthly expenses by up to 30 percent which if you choose to look at it differently is like getting a 30 incremented salary so you don't have to be stinky when it comes to your expenses but try to be a bit more rational about it and the third and final pillar in the fire system is the investment part now on a basic level the system requires advisors to invest as much money as you can and as early as possible so it's the principle of compounding at work here and this table here is a handy guide to how well your Corpus expands when you give it the necessary capital and a decent amount of time to grow now the fire method keeps this investing part ridiculously simple one you invest some money every month or as we call it you set up an sip a systematic investment plan and secondly this money is invested in a low cost Index Fund or ETF which in our case is either the nifty 50 or maybe a slightly broader Nifty 500 Index so essentially the focus here is to participate in the equity markets rather than actively trying to beat it which by my Reckoning should Fetchers and analyze return of 12 to 13 percent again the idea here is to maximize the returns which is why equities have been suggested but if that makes you a little uncomfortable then you can also settle for a mix of different asset classes which is something I explained in my video on asset allocation a few weeks back yet another investment you can make which is encouraged under the fire movement is on account of passive income dividends from stocks interest from your fixed deposits income from your blog your podcast YouTube channel monetization rental income are just some ways of making an Roi from physical or virtual assets now notice I have put this part under Investments and not income because passive income does require a lot of upfront work but once you do the hard work and you do it well one can expect a continuous stream of income over the next few years which will not only support your early retirement Ambitions but will also act as a safety net in fact there is something called an fi Ratio or the financial Independence ratio which largely means if your passive income is greater than your expenses then you're making some great progress on the path to financial Independence so to sum it up remember fire has three simple principles that you need to work on which is save more spend less and invest wisely if you're getting good value from this video then please do give this video a thumbs up and if you aren't a subscriber yet then do consider becoming one as I can then serve you videos as soon as they are released and also share with you some investing strategies tips and stories that are continually Post in the community section the original fire formula is based on the four percent rule which is the amount of saving you can safely withdraw every year without worrying that your money will run out for example let's say you are 29 years old and your monthly expenses are around 50 000 rupees if you want to retire at 40 then you have 11 years to accumulate a retirement fund so here's the math if household inflation is likely to grow by eight percent per annum then the 50 000 you spend now will rise to 1 lakh 16 000 rupees by the time you're 40.
So annually this comes to 14 lakh rupees and per the four percent rule it's 14 multiplied by 25 which means you need to accumulate a couples of three and a half crores to safely navigate through your retirement years or at least that's what the fire formula says now in my view there are some gaps with this four percent rule that I think we should all be aware of firstly this rule is okay for someone who has factored 25 maybe 30 years of retirement but if the retirement Horizon goes higher let's say 50 years for example then this formula starts getting a bit shaky and I've pinned a research study by Vanguard on this in the video's description secondly the four percent rule is a United States origination of the 1990s and has been tested on a historical basis when the yields on equities and Bonds were sufficiently high now we are not Americans and what works there will most likely not work for us which means there's an asset allocation and a market performance risk which needs to be accounted for and finally because each of us have our own preferences income goals saving patterns Etc I always felt it's important to have a customized fire implementation plan rather than picking something off the shelf which is why I created my own fire calculator which gives a clearer picture of how much I need to accumulate when can I idly retire how much withdrawals can I do on a monthly basis and at what point and in what circumstances my retirement money can run out so this obviously starts with the inputs and you need to type in your current age the age at which you want to retire and of course your life expectancy which I hope is strong and long then comes your current portfolio of Investments and this includes your mutual funds fds ppf EPF gold and other stuff and as a best practice kindly exclude the cost of the house where you will be staying post your retirement if you're still working then input the monthly savings and the annual increase you foresee input the expected returns from your investment the capital gain tax that can remain at 10 percent and finally have a view on how much will your expenses be in the first year of retirement and the expected household inflation rate and once we have these numbers keyed in as I have shown in this example the resulting output should clearly tell us three things one the amount of investment Corpus we need at the time of retirement which in this illustration is 2.2 crores at the age of 40.
Secondly we now have Clarity on how much can be spent on an early basis which starts from 12 lakhs so that's one lakh per month and it increases by eight percent every year and thirdly we get to know how sound or unsound this entire construct is like in this case our calculation shows that I'll run out of my money by the time I am 64 years old which is another way of saying that I need to rework my fire math which can include an increase in the monthly savings and the growth rate I can also consider extending my retirement age to a higher number let's say 45 years and finally I I can be a little careful with my expenses and instead of spending a lack of rupees maybe I can make do with 90 000. so there are many permutations and combinations you can look at but my suggestion is try to be a little conservative in your estimates especially when it comes to return on investment the inflation rate and the post retirement monthly expenses now for your benefit I have enclosed the link of this worksheet in the video's description it's a downloadable sheet all the formulas are open so feel free to change the numbers improve the formula if required add your own customization if it helps you but have a clear idea on when and where you need to be on the path to financial Independence so when I first heard and read about fire I was not a big fan of it I mean saving 50 to 7 20 percent of one salary is almost next to Impossible and I would have shut sharp had I not realized that as a method fire is quite flexible and can be used in many different ways so the calculator is one way and you can make a customized version of it but then there are more strategies there are more variants of the fire strategy and if you are interested then do read up on lean fire fat fire Coast fire and a few more of these in related articles that I've Linked In the video's description the point is and I myself realized a very late in life that many of us don't know when to retire how much is needed to retire which is why we continue working in a role or occupation that we don't enjoy much and that's where I think fire as a strategy might be the solution and it's just three things right increase your income and savings lower your expenses and get your Investments right so read up more about this concept in the Articles and websites I've added in the description and I sincerely hope you practice some sort of fire going forward if you found this video useful then do press the like button do subscribe to my channel share this video and I'll see you three days from now until then foreign
Read MoreTwo-Pot Retirement System Explained by Old Mutual Corporate
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Very few South Africans reach the end of their working careers with
enough money saved for their retirement. To help retirement fund members preserve funds for their
retirement, National Treasury has proposed a new two-pot system for retirement funds. Your future
retirement fund contributions will be allocated to two components. One is a savings component, the
other is a retirement component. For this example, we'll use the pots to illustrate the concepts.
When the two-pot reforms go into effect, your retirement fund will value
your existing retirement savings, and will allocate this amount to its own pot,
which the industry calls the vested component. The current rules will still apply to your existing
retirement savings. This money will be subject to the existing rights of access and existing
withdrawal tax tables. Then, 10% of this pot, up to a maximum of R30,000 will be allocated
to your savings pot and will be available for you to withdraw. Going forward, 1/3 of your future
retirement contributions will go into the savings pot. This pot is designed to be your lump sum at
retirement. However, in the case of an emergency, you'll be able to withdraw the money from
your savings pot once every tax year.
This amount will be taxed to your marginal tax rate.
Remember, any money withdrawn from your savings component before retirement will reduce your lump
sum at retirement. The minimum withdrawal amount will be R2 000. The remaining two thirds of your
future retirement contributions will be allocated to the retirement pot. To preserve your savings,
you won't be allowed to access this money until you retire. At your retirement, you'll have to
use it to buy a pension or annuity. The aim of this is to provide you with an income during your
retirement years.
There are a few important things to note. The two-pot retirement system is to
be implemented on the 1st of September 2024. This will only affect your future retirement
contributions from this date. If enacted, the two-pot system will affect pension funds,
provident funds, retirement annuity funds, and preservation funds. Your existing retirement
savings will be subject to the old rules, so there's no need to panic. Provident fund members
over 55 will have the option to stay and continue contributing to all their retirement savings
to their existing provident pot. The two-pot system will give retirement fund members access
to a portion of their savings in an emergency. This savings component will also be available as
a lump sum payment at retirement if you don't make withdrawals. At the same time, the majority
of your time and savings will be preserved to provide you with an income during your retirement.
If you have any questions about these proposals, and how they might affect you or your retirement
fund, please reach out to Old Mutual.
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Read MoreThe $65,000 Roth IRA Mistake To Avoid
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– I've seen too many of
you making some mistakes when it comes to investing
in your Roth IRA. One of them could cost you
$65,000 and the other one could cost you almost $500,000. You guys are seriously going
to make my beard turn more gray than it already is if
you don't knock it off. So let me show you what to watch out for, that way, you don't lose more money than you have to and
I can save a few bucks on hair dye for a couple more years. A Roth IRA is a self-directed
retirement account where you can contribute after
tax dollars to be invested. Since the money going in is taxed, the growth of your investments are not taxed and the money withdrawal from the account are never taxed either, as long as you don't try to pull out some of the money before the age of 59.5. There is no such thing
as a joint Roth IRA. So if you and your spouse
want to contribute to one, then you'll have to do it individually, hence the name Individual
Retirement Account.
If you both have enough
earned income separately, then you can each invest up to the $6500 limit for the year. If one of you works and the other doesn't, but you file a joint tax return, then the person working can, of course, contribute to a Roth IRA and
your spouse can contribute to a Spousal Roth IRA as well. Remember, these accounts are
owned by the individual person and on paper, not co-owned by both people. I want to try to encourage you to max out your Roth IRA every single year, if possible, because if you
don't do it for that year, then in the future you
cannot go back and contribute for a previous year once that time limit has passed. A Roth IRA is one of those accounts where I would bend over backwards to make sure that I can
put in the full amount allowed every single year.
In my order of operations for
what to do with your money, I have maxing out a Roth
IRA right after investing up to your employer match and HSA. That is how important
this type of account is. The good news with this
is that you actually have a timeframe of 16
months to contribute for each calendar year. So if we are in 2023
right now, then you have from January 1st, 2023, up until
when taxes need to be filed for that year to contribute,
which in this case, would be April 15th, 2024. That's how it is every single year, so ignore the actual dates in my example and pay more attention to the timeframes since the date taxes are due
will change by a few days from year to year. Most brokerages will ask
you which year you want to contribute to. For example, I personally
invest using M1 Finance, which you can check out down
in the description below, and also get a deposit bonus as well.
If I contributed to my Roth
IRA through them right now, then they would ask if I wanted the money to go towards 2022 or 2023, since at the time of recording this, we haven't hit the date
where taxes are due. This is great because it
gives you some extra time beyond the current year to
contribute Roth IRA money for that year. Before I tell you the next mistake that I see way too many people making, please help support my dog Molly by hitting that thumbs up
button and sharing this video with anyone you think it would help. Once you deposit money into your Roth IRA, there's one more extremely important step you need to do that I see a ton of people missing, and that is
actually investing the money.
I can't tell you how
many people I've talked to over the years who just put money into the account assuming
it would automatically grow, or knowing that they
needed to invest the money, but just forgetting to do
it because life happens, and things naturally slip out of our mind, only to check their account
balance years later, realizing that it hasn't grown in value because they didn't invest the money. Stop the nonsense here and
just set up auto investing within your investment account, and if you're waiting because you think that you can time the market
to buy in at a lower price, you can't, because it's
nearly impossible to do, so just to get the money
invested right now. If you know how you want to
invest the money, then great. If you don't, then I personally
like the two fund portfolio for people who are in
the accumulation phase of investing and in the
three fund portfolio for when you're closer to
retirement or in retirement.
I'll have a link to a
playlist then I made just for you where I teach you
about both of those portfolios down in the description below
and above my head as well. When you contribute to a Roth IRA, all of your money is not
locked up until 59.5. You can withdraw the
contributions that you've made before that age without paying a penalty, but you cannot withdraw any of
the gains within the account. For example, if you've contributed $6500 and the account has grown to $10,000, then you can withdraw
the $6500 contribution, but you cannot touch the $3500 gain without paying a penalty until 59.5. I've gotta interject for a second to give my personal opinion on this.
While withdrawing money
penalty-free is an option, I want to encourage you not to do this. To be brutally honest, I think that doing this
is one of the dumbest, most irresponsible, short-sighted
things that you can do. Withdrawing just $6500
worth of contributions would cost you $65,000 in
future investment growth. So when any money is
taken out of this account before retirement, think
about how it's actually going to cost you 7,800 Chipotle burritos, or 65 new Apple iPhones, or anything else that you would buy for that amount of money. And yes, I am fully aware
that you can do a penalty-free early withdrawal up to
$10,000 before the age of 59.5 for a first time home purchase. But this is just as stupid as withdrawing your contributions early
because that $10,000 is costing you over $100,000
in future investment growth when you pull that money out. Average annual home appreciation over the past 12 years has been 6.11%, and the US stock market
has returned 12.27%. Leave your money in the freaking Roth IRA and go earn that $10,000 that
you need to buy the home. Responsible investing takes time, like five or 10-plus years, and this money needs time to grow. The second you withdraw
any of your contributions, you are cutting down that tree before it even has a chance to grow fruit.
Once you withdraw
contributions from the past, you cannot replace that
money in the future. I get that emergencies happen in life, so that's why you need
to have money set aside in an emergency fund to
pay for those things. Do not, under 99.999% of circumstances, use your Roth IRA money for anything other than when you retire. One thing I see way too many people doing is investing in a
taxable brokerage account before they have their Roth
IRA maxed out for the year. This is a huge mistake from a tax savings
perspective for some of you because of how each account is taxed. With a Roth IRA, you invest with money
that's already been taxed, so the money can grow tax-free
and be withdrawn tax-free. With a taxable brokerage
account, you are paying taxes for the ongoing dividend
distributions every single year. Then you have to pay capital gains tax when you go to withdraw the money. Since the money within
a Roth IRA will grow and can be withdrawn tax-free, realistically, you want
this account to get as large as possible, but not at the expense of
your personal risk tolerance.
You should not take on
additional levels of risk by investing in more
risky, unprofitable stocks that random YouTubers have been pumping over the past few years or actively manage funds to
try to achieve higher returns. 99% of people, including
myself, cannot handle investing in something with a
high risk and potential, potential, high return. So don't even bother. The money in this account
is for retirement, so is it really worth it to risk that 60-year-old's financial wellbeing because you decided to gamble with their money right now? I doubt it.
Some of you might be over
the income limit to be able to contribute to a Roth IRA, or some of you will be at
that point in the future as your income grows. You can still contribute to a Roth IRA to take advantage of the tax-free growth by doing a backdoor Roth. To simply explain the process,
all you do is contribute to a traditional IRA. Do not invest the money yet. Then contact your brokerage
to have them convert the money to a Roth IRA. Now, I have done it with M1 Finance before and it was extremely easy. It only took I think two or three days for the money to get into my Roth IRA. Only do this if it makes sense based on your current tax rates
and future financial plans.
There's two things that you can do. if you are someone who thinks that you might be over the income limit, but you are not going to 100%
know until the year is over. Number one, you can
either wait until January of the following year,
like we talked about in one of the previous mistakes that
I mentioned, or number two, you can just contribute the
money to a traditional IRA, then do a backdoor Roth within
the year to get the money into the account so it can be invested. That way, if you are
over the income limit, you've already done the backdoor Roth. If you're under the income limit, no big deal 'cause you had to pay taxes on that money that was going
into the Roth IRA anyways. A question I get a lot is
whether or not you can contribute to a Roth IRA on different brokerages.
The simple answer is yes. This is how it would play out. You can contribute up to the max for one year
on, say, M1 Finance. Then you can decide to contribute up to the max on fidelity the next year. Then you can contribute up to the max on Vanguard the following year. So by the end of that third year, you would have three different Roth IRAs with three different brokerages, and there is no problem with that. You can take it one step further. If you decide, hey, out of these three, I actually like M1 finance
better than the other two, you can convert the
Roth IRAs with Fidelity and Vanguard into your
M1 Finance Roth IRA. You can also split up your contribution for the same year among
different brokerages. So if for this year you want
to say contribute $4,000 to an M1 Finance Roth IRA and the remaining $2,500
into a Fidelity Roth IRA, then you can do that without any problems.
The only thing you
cannot do is try to game the system by saying contributing $6500 into an M1 Finance Roth IRA and $6500 into a Roth IRA with another brokerage. You cannot exceed the maximum
amount allowed per year across all of your Roth IRAs on all of your brokerage accounts. Technically, you could do that since all of the brokerages aren't talking
to each other to keep track of what you are contributing, so you have to self-manage this. I would highly, highly recommend making sure
that you do not do this, whether it's on purpose or on accident. I don't know what the penalty is for this, but all I know is that you do
not want to get caught trying to defraud the government
in any way, shape, or form. Long-term investing is the name
of the game with a Roth IRA. This money is for when
you are in retirement, so make sure to take that into account when investing this money. No gambling it on stocks
that random YouTubers are promoting. I think the two or three fund portfolio is perfect for your Roth IRA, which you can learn more about
in these videos to your left.
There's a bunch of free stocks and resources down in
the description below to help with all of your personal finance and investing needs. I'll see you in the next one, friends, go..
Your Money Matters: How to plan for retirement if your job doesn’t offer a 401(k)
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>> ALL RIGHT. THANKS SO MUCH FOR WELL, IN THE MIDDAY FIX, IF YOU'RE A NON-TRADITIONAL WORKER LIKE A FREELANCER, ENTREPRENEUR OR INFLUENCE ARE PLANNING FOR RETIREMENT IS A BIT MORE CHALLENGING THOSE JOBS TYPICALLY DON'T OFFER A 4, 1, K, BUT WE'VE GOT AN EXPERT HERE, RICHARD. SHE WAS A FINANCIAL LIFESTYLE EXPERT WITH FIRST CAPITAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT GROUP HERE WITH SOME TIPS ON HOW TO BUILD A RETIREMENT FUND. >> RICHARD, THANKS SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE. GOOD TO BE HERE. FOR HAVING ME. ABSOLUTELY. AND AS WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, POST PANDEMIC, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NOT GONE BACK TO THEIR TRADITIONAL JOBS AND ARE PROBABLY EXPERIENCING THE FREEDOM OF BEING THEIR OWN BOSS PER SE. BUT A LOT OF FUNDAMENTAL AND FOUNDATIONAL STRUCTURES THAT WERE IN PLACE TO HELP THEM SAVE ARE NOT THERE. SOME. CAN. HOW CAN WE HELP WELL, IT'S A BIG DEAL AND A LOT OF PEOPLE RIGHT NOW ARE STRUGGLING WITH THAT. >> AND THERE'S A THERE ARE ANSWERS TO IT. OBVIOUSLY, IF IF YOU'VE LEFT YOUR. PREVIOUS EMPLOYER, WHETHER BY CHOICE OR BY FORCE AND THERE'S MONEY ON THE TABLE.
I YEAR-OLD FOR ONE K ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU WANT TO DO IS TAKE IT WITH YOU. MEAN, LITERALLY TAKE THE MONEY WITH YOU RIGHT BUT ROLL THAT YOUR OWN NEW. I WRITE YOU CAN DO THAT WITHOUT ANY COST OR ANY TAX LIABILITY AND THE COOL THING ABOUT IT IS IT KEEPS YOU IN THAT STRUCTURE, OK? BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THE LIMITATIONS OF WHAT YOU CAN PUT IN PER YEAR, WHICH WAS SIMILAR TO WHEN YOU HAD A 4, ONE K AND YOUR OLD EMPLOYER.
BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS WHEN YOU IF YOU LEFT DURING THE PANDEMIC OR POST-PANDEMIC, WERE YOU AND YOU WALK AWAY FROM THAT ORGANIZATION AND TAKE THE MONEY WITH YOU BY ROLLING IT INTO A NEW HIGHER RATE OF YOUR OWN TO TRADITIONAL OR ROTH. IT DOESN'T MATTER. IT JUST DEPENDS ON THAT, SIR. THAT'S KIND OF A TAX QUESTION. AND SOME I RECOMMEND THAT A PERSON LOOK AT WHERE THEY ARE. THEY'RE GOING TO BE SELF EMPLOYED. THEN THEIR THEIR TAX BRACKETS CHANGING IMMEDIATELY. THEY'VE BEEN EMPLOYED AT A COMPANY AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE SELF EMPLOYED. THEIR TAX BRACKETS AND ALL THAT WILL BE DIFFERENT. SO THEY NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THEM.
AND THAT'S WHERE THE TECH SECTOR ADVICE COMES INTO PLAY. SO EITHER ONE AS GOOD AS BUT TO YOUR POINT EARLIER, AS LONG AS YOU'RE PUTTING SOME STRUCTURE BACK IN AND SAVING. OKAY. AND THEN WHAT SOMEONE WHO IS SELF EMPLOYED OR A BUSINESS OWNER AND THEY DON'T HAVE. >> ANY EMPLOYEE SITS JUST JUST THEM, THOUGH. WELL, THERE'S A COUPLE OF OPTIONS THAT CAN DO A SOLO FOR ONE K THAT CAN DO WHAT'S CALLED THE SEP. AND EXCEPT IT'S GOT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT GUIDELINES. BUT IN THE CASES OF THE SOLO FOR ONE K I A STRONG ADVOCATE OF THAT. IF YOU HAVE A SMALL BUSINESS AND IT'S JUST YOU AND MAYBE A SPOUSE WHO MAY QUALIFY. OKAY. IT'S A GREAT TOOL TO USE ON THAT. DOES HAVE YOU KNOW, LIMITATIONS IN TERMS OF HOW MUCH YOU CAN PUT AWAY FOR YEAR. BUT AGAIN, IT GOES BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING BEFORE. IT'S ABOUT THE MUSCLE MEMORY OF HAVING THE STRUCTURE AND YOU CAN CREATE THOSE ON YOUR BY CREATING A SOLO FOR ONE K. AND WOULD YOU SAY THAT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SELF EMPLOYED IN OUT HERE DOING THEIR OWN THING.
IS IT STILL POSSIBLE SAVE AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD, EVEN IF YOU WERE A PART OF A TRADITIONAL, YOU KNOW, WORKSPACE. SO HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WORK FOR BIG COMPANIES FOREIGN ORGANIZATION, WGN OR ANY OTHERS. AND THERE'S A 4, ONE K PLANS PART OF YOUR RETIREMENT PLANNING. YOU'RE CONTRIBUTING AND THE COMPANY IN MOST CASES, THEY'RE MATCHING TO SOME EXTENT. THAT GOES AWAY. WHEN YOU LEAVE IN TERMS OF THE COMPANY MATCHING BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE THE SO THAT'S WHERE IT'S REALLY CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE STILL CONTRIBUTING AS LONG AS YOU CAN TO THAT MAXIMUM THAT YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE.
SO YES, THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS THERE'S STILL THAT OPPORTUNITY. IN FACT, IN SOME CASES, IT'S EVEN BETTER BECAUSE YOU HAVE MORE CONTROL AND YOU CAN USE SOME OF THE BOTH TAX DEFERRED AND TAX FREE TOOLS TO GET TO THAT POINT DOWN THE ROAD, OK? AND THEN WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RETIREMENT SAVINGS? YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE SOONER YOU START THE BETTER. BUT FOR SOMEONE WHO SAYS IT'S JUST TOO LATE FOR ME, YOU KNOW, WOULD YOU EVER SAY THAT TO ANYBODY IN NOW? TOO LATE BECAUSE THERE'S A COUPLE WAYS THAT THAT WE LOOK AT IT. ONE IS IT'S NEVER TOO LATE FOR YOU TO START BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SOME OF THE AFTER TAX TOOLS TO USE. BUT IT'S NEVER TOO LATE FOR THOSE WHO CARE ABOUT BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, SAVINGS IS PASSES CAME. SO IF YOU'RE PUTTING MONEY AWAY, SOMEBODY IS GOING TO BENEFIT FROM THAT. IT MAY NOT DIRECTLY BE YOU, BUT IT MAY BE PART OF YOUR LEGACY. WE HAVE JUST UNDER A MINUTE LEFT. RICHARD, IS THERE ANY LESS POINTS TO BITS THAT YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, JUST GET ACROSS THE FOLKS BEFORE WE WRAP UP, WE'RE GOING TO YOUR ORIGINAL QUESTION AND YOUR SECONDARY QUESTION ABOUT CAN YOU DO IT? ARE YOU TOO OLD? YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD.
START WHERE YOU ARE. MAKE SURE THAT YOU BASE IT ON YOUR BUDGET SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE TO DO IT. SO LIKE WORKING OUT AND, YOU KNOW, WE ALL KNOW THIS. YOU GET TO THAT PLAN ON THE LOSE WEIGHT, GET BETTER SHAPE AND YOU TRY TO DO TOO MUCH AT ONE TIME BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T LOOK AT YOUR BUDGET OF YOUR TIME. IN THIS CASE WHEN IT COMES YOUR FINANCIAL BUDGET, THE SAME THING APPLIES, START SAVING. LOOK AT YOUR BUDGET, DETERMINE WHAT YOU CAN DO AND THEN BE ABLE TO STICK TO IT. THAT'S PROBABLY MY BIGGEST TIP IS JUST JUST SAFE. ALWAYS SAY MY WIFE AND I TALK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME. ARE WE SAVING WE AS AS PROFESSIONALS TO THE SAME THING. SO TO THE CONSUMER JUST START WHERE YOU ARE AND THEN BE ABLE TO BUILD AND GO FORWARD. ALL RIGHT. ONE OF MY MODELS PENNIES ADD UP, SAY SURE.
ALL RIGHT. YES, THANKS SO MUCH, RICHARD. WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING ON THE SHOW. THANK YOU. CAN GET MORE INFORMATION AT FIRST SEE IG DOT COM OR FOLLOW THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA. AGAIN, RICHER THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE APPRECIATE .
Read MoreKevin O’Leary: Why Early Retirement Doesn’t Work
Jason 0 Comments Retire Wealthy Retirement Planning Tips for Retiree's
This whole idea of financial independence retire early doesn't work. Let me tell you why. It happened to me. On the sale of my
first company, I achieved great liquidity and I
thought to myself, "Hey. I'm 36. I can retire now." I retired for three years. I was bored out of my mind. Working is not
just about money. People don't understand this very
often until they stop working.
Work defines who you are. It provides a place where
you're social with people. It gives you interaction with people
all day long in an interesting way. It even helps you live longer
and is very, very good for brain health. Staying stimulated is how people
live into their 90s. I'm not kidding. So when am I retiring? Never. Never. I don't know where I'm going
after I'm dead, but I'll be working when I get there too..
How We Retired Early With $540K At 40 In Colorado
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I started getting
diagnosed with some fairly serious medical
ailments. I just began to realize
that I had been working for a retirement that I
may never enjoy. We just knew we wanted
the freedom to make our own choices with our
time. And that's where
financial independence came in. Then it turned
into how fast can we do this? Let's get it done
as fast as we can. We started to accumulate
real estate in the vein of let's have an
additional source of income besides my job. We accumulated 19 units
over the span of just from 2016 to 2019. I'm Debbie and I'm Chris. We are 43 and live in
Colorado and retired by the age of 40. I never wanted to be a
millionaire. That was never a goal,
even, you know, now in my forties, I just wanted
to have enough money to be able to pay my bills. When I was 21, 22,
somewhere in there, I remember reading The
Millionaire Next Door. It was eye opening to me
because the stories they highlighted in that book
were very similar to what we do. Once it became in
that realm of reality that I could maybe be a
millionaire, then I did become fascinated with
the idea of being a millionaire in both
healthy and unhealthy ways.
Once Debbie left her
job, we're now completely dependent on my job. Honestly, like, I'm sure
there was more than this, but I tell the story
that basically I just stopped going to Subway. Obviously, that's not
the whole case, but that's all it really
felt like. Once we started tracking
our spending a little bit better with budgeting, I
was the guy that was always trying to turn
the knob down on our spending. Chris used to think it
was fun to like try to spend $100 a month on
groceries and just eat what came out of the
pantry.
So we both kind of had
this thought, what if you want to leave your job
someday? That thought easily
turned into how can we use our money to buy us
more time? I was mainly hearing a
lot of stories about rental real estate. Some people were were
building mega empires with rental real estate.
I wasn't looking to do that. I just wanted to
have additional income. And in the in the
process of going from we don't know anything
about being landlords and real estate owners to
let's buy our first property, I scoured the
Internet and spent a lot of time listening to
podcasts, watching YouTube videos, reading
blogs and forums.
And we got this like
eight and a half by eleven vision board type
of thing. So it was just something
that we could write on with chalk that we had
in our kitchen that would remind us of our goals. And, and as I was
writing those goals down, I believe we had like by
the end of 2016, we were going to have two
properties and by the end of 2017 we were going to
have four properties. We were getting
properties that other people didn't want. There was something that
was a bit of an ugly duckling about them. For me, a very difficult
part of this was a lot of elbow grease, fixing up
the ugly things, working on the houses, getting
smoke, smells out, painting everything,
tearing a bunch of flooring out. I'm
spending full days over there. Chris is getting
off work. He's spending nights and
weekends over at these rental properties to get
them ready for tenants and make them nice
places to live.
And as we were doing
that, I'm still saving 50 to 60% of our income
through my paycheck. All the extra money we
weren't spending out of your paycheck was going
toward buying more rental homes. All of the cash
flow we were getting from rentals was going toward
buying more rental homes. We accumulated 19 units
over the span of just from 2016 to 2019.
So it was a pretty
pretty fast and furious four years. We actually ended up
reaching fire at least three years earlier than
we had projected. So gross income from our
rental properties can vary based on vacancy,
capital expenditure, rehab, repairs, those
kinds of things. But it is between 8 to
10000 per month and our net income from our
rental properties is between 4 to 6000 a
month. So the money we live off
of comes purely from our real estate investments. We do have mortgages on
all of our rental properties that we
consider business debt. Our tenants pay those
mortgages for us essentially, and rents
continue to rise as they do so as the mortgage
goes down. Right now, our
investments look like we have about $350,000 in a
combination of traditional IRAs and
Roth IRAs and a brokerage account, $35,000 set
aside in a 529 account for our girls and
another $20,000 in bonds.
The insurance that she
sells for one month a year provides that extra
cushion of safety or comfort, as well as some
other discretionary spending. Our budget now
in FIRE, it looks very similar to what it was
pre FIRE in that none of our categories really
went any different direction except for
travel. We usually have about
$10,000 in our travel budget over the course
of any time, and it's more than we spend. Instead of having a job
where I would work 48 weeks a year and have
four weeks off, I would say now that I work
probably four weeks a year and have 48 weeks
off.
And we found in our lives
that meaning and purpose are important to our
emotional and physical health. And part of that
is around work. We are really enjoying
having this freedom of time to make
connections, to travel and explore. Our
daughters are getting older whether we like it
or not. They'll be graduating
and I'm excited to be a part of of their lives
as they move forward into their next chapters and
have the abundance of time to be able to be in
their lives as much as they will allow us or as
much as as feels comfortable.
I think when we were
searching for financial independence, what we
wanted was freedom and independence from having
to go to a place and do with things someone else
told us to do. And we still want that
and we value that. But I think what we
found through it is a much deeper, fuller,
richer life..
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