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Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Ask Paula: I’m an Investor Who likes Volatility; What Should I Buy?

Afford Anything | Make Smart Money Choices

Paula Pant | Cumulus Podcast Network

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

#292: Three Kids, FI has an all-equities broad stock market index portfolio that he’s held for years. He’s confident he can handle maximum volatility, so what investments can he lean into to that will provide him with great long-term returns? Jordan is a new listener and he has three questions: should he use $100,000 to buy more rental properties or invest in a brokerage account? Should he and his wife upgrade their home and buy a property that’s worth double their current home? And finally, how can self-employed individuals who earn more lower the cost of health insurance? Alex’s wife lost her job due to the pandemic. They live in Washington state and are married filing separately due to his wife’s student loans. Can he use half of his income to qualify her for Roth IRA contributions? Sarah rounds out this episode with a concern: a financial advisor told her that investing in VTSAX over-indexes her in large cap funds and technology stocks. Is this true, and what should she do about it? I answer these four excellent questions on today’s episode. Enjoy! For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode292 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You can afford anything but not everything.

0:10.6

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

0:13.2

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

0:17.6

anything in your life that's a scarce or limited resource.

0:20.3

And that opens up two questions.

0:22.3

Number one, what matters most to you?

0:24.8

Not what the society say should matter, but rather what is genuinely a priority?

0:29.9

In your life, where do you want to direct your extremely limited money, time, and energy?

0:36.4

Number two, how do you actually execute that?

0:39.2

How do you align your daily and weekly and monthly and yearly goals and subsequent actions

0:46.2

to reflect that?

0:47.9

Now answering these two questions is a lifetime practice and that's what this podcast is

0:52.1

here to explore.

0:53.7

My name is Paula Pat.

0:54.7

I am the host of the Afford Anything Podcast and today I am answering the following

0:59.9

four questions.

1:01.5

Number one, an anonymous caller who is 38 years old with three kids has noticed that he

1:07.6

is very comfortable with stock market volatility.

1:11.2

Given this, what investments should he be choosing?

1:15.0

Jordan is 28 years old.

1:18.0

He and his wife have a two-year-old daughter and two rental properties.

1:22.6

He has three questions.

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