08.22.23 Organize Retirement Accounts / Travel Booking Warnings

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Make sure you have all of your financial accounts organized. Today people change jobs frequently, often leading to a confusing menagerie of retirement accounts. Streamlining investments helps you manage a sustainable retirement, and helps prevent losing track of savings. Also today, travel warnings about booking tours and cruises. Those industries have had a lot of instability. Clark offers some tricks of the trade for smart booking including the best way to pay, and a NEVER NEVER rule about trip insurance Organizing Retirement Accounts: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Travel Warnings: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show Three Strategies to Organize Your Retirement Accounts 401(k) Rollover: What You Need To Know & Options What Are Index Funds? / What Is an ETF? Dollar Cost Averaging Makes You a Fortune Over Time 6 Things to Know Before You Sign Up for Tracfone Wireless Best Cell Phone Plans in 2023: The Cheapest Plan for Every Need NYTimes: Help! I Signed Up for a $4,800 Bird-Watching Trip but the Company Shut Down. Gainesville couple out thousands of dollars after Vantage Travel suddenly goes out of business Vantage lays off employees weeks after announcing it was up for sale How To Choose a Tour Company Travel Insurance? What You Need To Know Before You Buy Cancel for Any Reason Trip Insurance: Should You Buy It? Evaluate Life Insurance - Consumer Federation of America Paying for Long-Term Care: How It's Changing How Do You Prepare for the Likelihood of Long-Term Care Costs? Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 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	It's my pleasure to welcome you here to the Clark Howard Show where our mission is to
0:08.7	serve you and empower you so you make better financial decisions in your life.
0:14.3	First, I want to thank you for the decision you made to listen to this podcast or watch
0:20.4	this podcast.
0:22.1	If I've done my job, you'll learn something that you can use in your life.
0:29.2	But here's something I hope you'll do.
0:32.3	The average American has so many different jobs now over a working lifetime.
0:38.7	Think about it.
0:39.8	You go back to generations.
0:42.4	It was completely common that someone coming out of school, high school or some college
0:49.4	or college would go to work at a company.
0:53.7	And unless that company got into financial trouble or they didn't like you, you'd be at
0:58.8	that one company, potentially, your entire adult life.
1:04.6	Seriously, it was so very common.
1:08.4	My father worked for one company for 29 years.
1:13.1	Christa, your dad worked for...
1:15.6	PepsiCo, for 36 years.
1:17.4	36 years.
1:19.5	It was just how it was done is you went to work one place and you were there all that time.
1:27.0	And today, people might think, oh, well, I've got to stay there a year.
1:33.5	I mean, I don't want to look like a job hopper.
1:35.9	It's such a funny, different mentality.
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