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April Mailbag: Backdoor Roth, Dividend Aristocrats, and How to Write a Song

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🗓️ 28 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This month we’re answering your questions about the wash sale rule, preferred stock, retirement accounts for the self-employed, and more with the help of Motley Fool Contributor Asit Sharma.

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0:00.0

This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert. You can call me bro.

0:09.4

Bro. Bro camp. Hey, bro. How you doing?

0:12.1

Just fine, Allison. How are you?

0:13.7

I'm good. It's the April Mailbag, where you ask questions and hopefully we have answers.

0:17.7

This month, we're joined by Motleyful contributor, Asset Sharma. We're answering your questions about the CARES Act, dividend aristocrats, and the backdoor Roth.

0:25.2

All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful answers.

0:29.6

Yes, it's the April Mailbag. And this month, we have Asset Sharma joining us.

0:34.2

Now, he might be familiar to some of you because he has done some of the other

0:37.7

podcast, but this is his first time joining us on Motleyful Answers. Also, thank you so much.

0:42.3

Well, thanks so much for asking me, Allison. I'm so excited to be here with you guys today.

0:46.8

And you are coming to us from a Carolina, I believe, but I don't remember which one.

0:52.1

Absolutely. I'm coming from the northernmost of the two

0:55.6

Carolinas. Oh, I've heard it. We have some great contributors just south of the border, so I'm not going to

1:01.6

say anything pejorative about South Carolina, but I will extol the virtues of North Carolina.

1:06.9

I'm coming to you from Raleigh, which is the capital three. That's great.

1:11.2

And also, how did you come to be a writer for the Motley Fool?

1:14.9

Interestingly enough, there was a short-lived blog network, I think is the name, the

1:20.2

Motley Fool blog network.

1:21.4

So this was one of Motley Fool's many interesting projects, and I wrote an article.

1:25.8

I'm putting it so nicely.

1:30.3

So many. We do have so many. We have a bit of ADD when it comes to projects. But yes. I've found, yeah, I found that out in my

1:36.8

many years of contributing. There's, there's no lack for new projects. And that's a great thing.

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