Ask HTM - Gold in Times of Unrest, Potential Student Loan Repayment Scams, and Weak Robo-Advisor Returns #916
How to Money
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Let’s dive into the week with some fresh listener questions we have lined up for you! And don't just stand on the sidelines- if you have a question you’d like us to answer, toss your voice memo our way. It only takes about 90 seconds to record and you can find a step by step guide over at HowToMoney.com/ask . Regardless of how random or bizarre you might think it is, we want to hear it!
1 - My grandparents set me up with an UTMA… what should I do with that money?
2 - Are the student loan repayment calls I’m receiving, legit?
3 - I’ve realized paltry returns from my Betterment account… is it time to cut bait?
4 - What’s a good savings challenge to jumpstart my investing in the new year?
5 - Should unrest in the US push me to invest in gold?
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| 0:00.0 | Chelsea Handler here. This week on the Dear Chelsea podcast, Riley Keough discusses the memoir she co-wrote with her mother, Lisa Marie Presley. But it's also such a gift to be able to sit here and say as an adult woman, I had such a good mother. Yes. That is a gift. I know. You know, she certainly was not like a, I don't know what a perfect mother is. Well, she wasn't a traditional mother. She wasn't a traditional mother. |
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| 0:24.6 | To have that kind of love. |
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| 0:31.1 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:31.6 | This is Ramsey's job. |
| 0:32.7 | And I go by the name Q. Ward. And we'd like you to join us each week for our show Civic Cypher. That's right. We discuss social issues, especially those that affect black and brown people, but in a way |
| 0:41.7 | that informs and empowers all people. We discuss everything from prejudice to politics to police |
| 0:46.6 | violence, and we try to give you the tools to create positive change in your home, workplace, |
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| 1:01.0 | Welcome to How to Money. |
| 1:02.5 | I'm Joel. |
| 1:03.2 | I am Matt. |
| 1:04.5 | And today, we're answering your listener questions. |
| 1:31.8 | Okay. You know it, buddy. It is Monday, and I am excited to hear from multiple How to Money listeners today. |
| 1:35.5 | We've got a listener who is interested in shifting his investments towards gold. |
| 1:39.8 | He's looking to diversify, but is he doing it for the right reasons? |
| 1:41.3 | And is it something we'd recommend? |
| 1:42.3 | We'll get to that one. Another listener is looking to avoid a potential student loan repayment scam. |
| 1:47.3 | So we'll cover the details there. |
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