January Mailbag: Timing the Market, Time in the Market, and First-Time Dads
Motley Fool Answers
The Motley Fool
4.4 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This month we're answering your questions about tricks for timing the market (spoiler: there aren't any), allocation advice if you're coming up on retirement, and how you shouldn't feel guilty about putting your retirement over your kid's college fund.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Motley Full Answers is brought to you by Molecule, the world's first molecular air purifier that will reduce symptoms for allergy and asthma sufferers. |
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| 0:20.4 | This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Allison Southwick, and I'm joined, as always, by Robert Brokamp, personal finance expert here at The Motley Fool. |
| 0:27.2 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:28.4 | Hello. |
| 0:29.1 | We're also joined by Sean Gates, because it's the mailbag episode. |
| 0:33.3 | And so today we're going to answer your questions about what to do right before you retire. |
| 0:37.9 | Timing the market, factoring pensions and social security into your asset allocation and so |
| 0:42.5 | much more. |
| 0:43.5 | So exciting. |
| 0:44.5 | Yay! |
| 0:45.5 | All that and more on this week's episode of Molly Full Answers. |
| 0:51.4 | Hey, Sean, welcome back. |
| 0:53.4 | Thanks. It's good to be back. |
| 0:54.7 | Thanks for coming in and helping us tackle this mailbag. |
| 0:58.2 | And you're going to be coming back soon as well to help us with a series that we're |
| 1:01.7 | going to do with Motley Fool Wealth Management, a sister company of the Motley Fool, |
| 1:05.8 | on different life events. |
| 1:08.1 | So I'm excited about that. |
| 1:09.3 | Yes, it'll be very exciting. I read all the comments |
| 1:11.1 | about how your voices are so wonderful for podcasts, but they don't talk about how nice your faces are |
| 1:15.8 | for podcasts. Oh, well, thank you very much. We do have faces for podcasts. All right, let's head to the |
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