How to Invest for Kids (and Grandkids!)
Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast
Taylor Schulte, CFP®
4.7 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today we're talking about the best way to invest for kids + grandkids.
In fact, guest host Jeremy Schneider says this is one of the most frequent topics he gets asked about!
So, to help our listeners, he explores three BIG things:
- How to decide if you should invest for your kids...at all
- The top four (4) investing strategies to use
- How to optimize for taxes and growth
If you have kids (or grandkids!) and want to know the best ways to invest for their future, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Stay Wealthy podcast with Taylor Schulte, as you may be noticing. |
| 0:09.0 | This is not Taylor Schulte. My name is Jeremy Schneider. I'm filling in for Taylor for five episodes |
| 0:14.0 | for the end of June and beginning of July. This is my second to last episode of the five. |
| 0:19.8 | And today we're going to be talking about investing for |
| 0:23.0 | kids, specifically I'm sharing whether you should be investing for your kids at all. Maybe it is not |
| 0:28.6 | right for you for various reasons. Four different strategies to use to invest for your kids, |
| 0:33.9 | how to optimize taxes and growth for those investments, and I'll also be answering |
| 0:39.5 | two questions from listeners. So if you have kids or grandkids, they've been wondering about the |
| 0:45.0 | different ways to financially invest for your future, this episode is for you. For all the links |
| 0:50.5 | and resources mentioned in today's episode, head over to you staywealthy.com |
| 0:55.2 | slash 161. |
| 1:00.2 | All right, let's first tackle the question about whether or not you should be investing for |
| 1:04.7 | your kids or grandkids at all. |
| 1:06.8 | And so many times I get really great earnest questions from parents or grandparents. |
| 1:12.5 | They want to do the best by their kids or grandkids. |
| 1:15.9 | And it's the most altruistic of goals. |
| 1:18.8 | They want to give their kids a better opportunity than they had. |
| 1:22.2 | You know, they know the massive power of long-term growth with compound growth |
| 1:26.4 | and investing. |
| 1:27.2 | And they want to get their kids |
| 1:28.0 | start as early as possible. But oftentimes it's not actually right for them to be investing yet |
| 1:33.6 | because their own finances are not in order. And so when talking about investing for kids, |
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