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How to Build an Emergency Fund the Right Way

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Retirement, Moneyadvice, Investing, Savingmoney, Personalfinance, Business

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

"I'm on Step 4 of the FOO and it’s feeling like this may take many many months, if not a year to just save 3 months of an emergency reserve. Is this normal for most people? Am I missing something?"

We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode!

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0:00.0

Eric's question is up next. He says, when working out calculations for retirement, they always

0:12.2

ask about cash. What do they mean by that?

0:16.4

Like my emergency fund or is cash something else or other types of accounts in this

0:22.0

context? So specifically when thinking about or other types of accounts in this context.

0:22.8

So specifically when thinking about net worth and retirement savings, could you clarify this

0:28.0

for him?

0:29.0

This is a great question.

0:30.0

I'll let you fill in, Bo, but Eric's probably like, so do I go pull $10,000 out and keep that under my

0:35.8

mattress or do I keep it access it's not even access to cash because access to cash

0:41.9

man there is a whole broad spectrum

0:44.0

here because there is when you people say cash there's a group of people they're

0:49.0

probably saying oh my gosh these guys are saying put this under your mattress and

0:52.4

then there's other

0:53.5

groups these financial mutants that are they think they're financial mutants but

0:56.9

it's the people that think well access to cash works and I've fallen into this

1:00.5

because I was a good financial mutant where I had a home equity line or I see people who think they have a good

1:05.0

investment portfolio that that's going to be their cash. There is a broad spectrum so kind of

1:10.8

answer that question what do we mean when we say cash?

1:14.0

Yeah, I'm curious, when working out calculations, they always ask about cash.

1:18.0

I guess, I don't know the day is.

1:20.0

I guess he's talking about like,

1:21.0

I can say emergency reserves three to six months. He's probably trying to figure out what is what shape, form, accounts. Yeah, yeah. So we, one of the things that we espouse is that not only an accumulation but even more so in

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