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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Ask Paula: How Should I Invest $5,000 Per Month?

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

#312: After paying basic living expenses and maxing out their 401k’s and Roth IRAs, Caroline and her partner have $4,000 - $5,000 left each month. Where should they put this money if their goal is to simply have their money work harder for them? Sanjay is torn between selling his townhome or renting it out. The rental numbers don’t work on his 15-year mortgage -- should he refinance to a 30-year mortgage instead? Kyle wants to construct a portfolio with the highest Sharpe ratios and wants to know: would the risk parity model work? What are the downsides? G is curious: does the stimulus check received for their children count as earned income for the kids? If so, can they put it toward the Roth IRAs they opened for their children? Anonymous has two unrelated questions: what are our thoughts on the housing market in relation to the moratoriums on mortgage payments and emergency bans on evictions? What will happen when they go away? Additionally, what tools, questions, or resources do we recommend to have a productive financial conversation with your partner? Finally, another anonymous caller wants to know: do they need to submit receipts for the HSA contributions they make? My friend and former financial planner, Joe Saul-Sehy, joins me as usual to tackle these questions. Enjoy! For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode312 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can afford anything, but not everything.

0:11.3

Every choice that you make is a trade-off against something else, and that doesn't just

0:14.7

apply to your money, that applies to your time, your focus, your energy, your attention.

0:19.9

Anything in your life that is a scarce or limited resource.

0:23.3

And that opens up two questions.

0:24.9

First, what matters most to you, not what the society say should matter most.

0:29.6

But what genuinely matters most in your life?

0:32.7

That's the first question.

0:33.7

The second question is, how do you align your daily, weekly, monthly annual decision-making

0:38.0

to reflect that which matters most?

0:40.7

Now answering those two questions is a lifetime practice.

0:44.1

And that is what this podcast is here to explore and facilitate.

0:47.6

My name is Paula Pant, I am the host of the Affordable Care Foundation.

0:51.0

Every other episode we answer questions that come from you, the community.

0:54.5

And today, former financial planner, Joe Salcihi, joins me to answer these questions.

0:59.4

What's up, Joe?

1:00.4

Do you ever watch The Simpsons?

1:01.8

I love The Simpsons.

1:03.5

You know how at the beginning of every episode, Bart writes something different on the board?

1:07.6

Yeah.

1:08.6

You kind of look for the different thing.

1:09.6

Now that I've been here a few weeks, I always listen for the subtle differences in the

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