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Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Am I Okay Using a Robo-Advisor?

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Audacy

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

If your situation is fairly straightforward, is there anything wrong with using a robo-advisor? Or are you better off using an actual financial advisor?

Have a money question? Email me here.

Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts.

"Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast.

0:05.8

It's Friday, yuhu, May 21st, and we are here to try to take the mystery out of your financial

0:12.7

life if you have a question about anything going on.

0:17.1

I mean, really anything associated with a dollar sign, send us an email.

0:21.8

Very easy.

0:22.8

Ask Jill at JillOnMoney.com if you're on our website.

0:26.2

If you're on the JillOnMoney.com website, hit the contact button.

0:30.6

And by the way, when you're on the website, why don't you sign up for the free weekly newsletter.

0:34.9

We'd love to send that out too, it goes out every Friday.

0:38.4

Mark does a fantastic job.

0:39.9

All right, let's get into your questions.

0:42.3

This is from Joseph, and he says, I always enjoy the information in the newsletter.

0:47.7

Hey, how about that?

0:48.7

The newsletter.

0:49.7

Newsletter guy.

0:50.7

I'm recently retired.

0:51.7

I'm trying to decide where to invest my 401k funds now.

0:56.7

Since I'm not too confident in knowing the right way to manage these funds, I'm considering

1:02.3

going with a Robo Advisor service or some hybrid of Robo and Personal Management with

1:08.3

a brokerage account, maybe at Fidelity or Schwab or Vanguard.

1:13.7

Obviously, one can decide to be conservative, moderate, et cetera.

1:17.0

Do you have opinions of these?

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