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The Clark Howard Podcast

08.05.25 Ask An Advisor With Wes Moss

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.64.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Catch-Up Secrets for Savers 55+ and Does the 4% Rule Really Work? Are you 55 or older and feeling behind on retirement savings? Or perhaps you're wondering how to make your money last once you do retire? Fiduciary financial advisor Wes Moss dives deep into crucial strategies for those 55 and up, including powerful "catch-up" contributions for your 401(k), IRA, and HSA that can add thousands to your nest egg. Also, Wes also reveals the often-debated but incredibly powerful 4% rule, explaining why it's a critical guideline for sustainable retirement withdrawals and how it can reduce your anxiety about running out of money. Plus, Christa shares your #AskWes questions and Wes gives his take. All this and more on the August 5, 2025 Ask an Advisor episode of the Clark Howard podcast. Submit your questions at clark.com/ask. We hope you enjoy our weekly Ask An Advisor episodes, in which Christa and Wes discuss investing and retirement savings in depth. Let us know what you think in the comments! Learn more about Wes:   BOOKS BY WES MOSS   /   Wes Moss, CFP® Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Ask an Advisor, where we here at Team Clark talk about investing, saving for your retirement, happiness.

0:11.8

So many things.

0:12.5

Retirement happiness.

0:13.4

The habits of happy retirees.

0:15.0

One of my favorite topic.

0:16.2

Krista DiBiwaz and Wes Moss certified financial planner.

0:20.4

Is that right?

0:20.9

CFP, fiduciary. And excellent broadcaster, author. When's your next book coming out? Excellent broadcast. When's your next book coming out? I think you are. We're a podcaster. Radio people. We grew up in radio. Right. And you still do some radio. That's why I said that. Yeah, I do a lot of radio still. So a couple of the topics today,

0:38.2

this is inspired by true events. This is inspired by people that I've met over the years that

0:45.1

it's somewhat rare, but just because you don't have any money saved in your 30s or in your 40s,

0:53.0

even, I've seen people go essentially not be able to save much at all,

0:57.1

all the way until they're almost 50 and they still end up with significant amount of money

1:01.4

by the time they're in their mid-60s.

1:03.1

So today I wanted to talk about this 50 plus retirement catch up toolbox.

1:09.1

And then later in the show,

1:10.7

we're going to talk about the power of the 4% plus rule.

1:15.8

There's even a potential to go a little higher than that.

1:18.7

And there's a lot of, there's always controversy around this number.

1:21.5

But it's about how do we max out our withdrawals in retirement without running out?

1:25.0

Those are our two topics today.

1:26.3

Okay.

1:26.6

And then I have plenty of questions. And you can submit those at clark.com slash ask, including I have a question about what your opinion is on penny stocks. And I'm very curious to hear that. So we'll get to that and all of the other questions I have for today. All right. So we're going to start with it's expensive to live in America. It's expenses to live in the big city.

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