4 Financial Risks That Are Worth Taking!
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Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Four, financial risks, they're totally worth taking. I am excited about this because all the time we talk to people about risk assessment |
| 0:14.7 | and how do I de-risk my life, de-risk my portfolio, de-risk my financial situation, but today |
| 0:20.0 | we're going to kind of flip the script. We're going to talk about some risks that may indeed actually be worth you taking. |
| 0:26.7 | And look, we're not talking about NFTs. We're not talking about cryptos. We didn't get caught up and all that. These are actually true things that you can take a risk on and get explosive rates of return over the long term if done the right way and guess what we're going to share that |
| 0:44.2 | with you today so let's jump in to talk about the first one this first one may |
| 0:47.3 | seem counterintuitive but in fact it is risky and it is investing in your education adding to your knowledge base in order to improve a skill set or learn a new skill set. |
| 1:01.0 | And people like, I don't, guys I don't understand I went to school |
| 1:05.0 | how is this risky why on earth could this be considered a risky thing I mean I'm |
| 1:08.6 | I'm a huge advocate for education I still think that this is the latter that gave me the leg up. |
| 1:14.6 | So but it is risky these days because guess what? Number one, Bo, it's gotten expensive. |
| 1:19.5 | That's right. It can be incredibly, incredibly costly when you think about what an average four year cost. |
| 1:26.0 | If you look at the average cost of an in-state degree right now, it's $26,000 per year. |
| 1:32.4 | So just doing like real simple math, |
| 1:34.1 | that's like over a hundred grand over the course of four years. |
| 1:36.4 | Well, it goes even further than that. |
| 1:38.1 | If we're going to spend $100,000 on something, |
| 1:41.5 | 104,000 specifically, that actually is an opportunity cost. |
| 1:45.2 | That's an incremental decision that you have chosen to put that money towards your education, |
| 1:49.8 | whereas it could have been invested. And so we were like, like hey let's flip the script on this and say |
| 1:55.3 | what would that money caught be actually potentially turn into and we guess what |
| 2:01.0 | what guys a hundred thousand dollar education is potentially foregoing $10 million at retirement. |
| 2:08.6 | Yeah, so whether you paid for that or whether your parents paid for that, that was money that could have been working that could have been |
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