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401k Savings Rates Are Going Up (What's Going On?!)

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Retirement, Moneyadvice, Investing, Savingmoney, Personalfinance, Business

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

401(k) Savings rates are at an all-time high - so what's going on, and what do we think about this?

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0:00.0

401k savings rates are going up as 4 non-blonds once asked what's going on

0:15.0

I got him. him.

0:16.0

That's what you were saying.

0:18.0

I am so excited about this because this is good news.

0:21.4

This is good news.

0:22.4

401k rates are increasing people are saving more money

0:26.4

this is something that should be celebrated right like this is a net positive for the

0:31.4

financial world around us.

0:32.5

I got really excited about this because check this out.

0:35.2

We actually have some data here to share

0:37.2

is that 401k accounts at Vanguard,

0:41.0

they're now at 11.7% contribution rates.

0:44.4

Now this does include employer match as well.

0:46.6

But here's the cool thing.

0:47.6

This is an all-time haph since Vanguard has been tracking this,

0:52.0

but I gotta tell you, before we start celebrating that

0:55.0

everybody has found religion on saving and investing, there's actually something structural

1:00.7

that's happening behind the scenes that's making this happen.

1:03.6

So you mean to tell me that people haven't just like caught wind that hey I've got to

1:06.8

control my financial future I've got to start saving more I've got to take more control

1:11.4

over my future financial self that's not what's taking place?

1:15.2

Yeah, a few years ago, the tax law has changed where there was this new thing called

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