Answering your tough financial questions for the past 21 years, it's Hanson McLean's Money Matters,

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Welcome to Hanson Money Matters. I'm Scott Hanson. I'm Pat McLean. Thanks for joining us as we talk about

financial matters and retirement planning issues. both myself and my co-host,

we are both financial advisors, certified financial planner, charter financial consultant.

We spend our weekdays meeting with people like yourself and come here on the weekends to be

your financial advisors on the air. So whether you have advisors you're working with now or just

doing things on your own or whatever

the case may be, we want you to consider this place another source for valuable information.

And ask any question, financial related question you would like. Any, any. I don't care

whether you think it's the smallest or the largest. Yes.

And let me tell you where that comes from.

So we have, what, over 100 employees here at Hanson McLean.

And one of the employees came up to me and said, you know, I hate to bother you, but could you answer this question for me and had to do

with their husband's 401k? And I thought to myself, you know, you work in an investment advisory firm

and you started it by saying, I hate to bother you. And it was a relatively simple question.

And I thought, how hard is it for the,

and this young lady was in her, I'm guessing, her late 20s, early 30s. And I thought to myself,

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