Net vs. Gross Income - How Much Should You Be Saving?
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we have a question from Mohit. |
| 0:10.6 | A financial advisor suggested that I invest in an quote-unquote investment engine with |
| 0:15.8 | death benefits instead of a backdoor Roth IRA. |
| 0:20.2 | I did some digging and it appears this is an indexed universal life insurance policy |
| 0:25.8 | that says it tracks the market. |
| 0:28.5 | Is this a good idea? |
| 0:30.7 | So so Mohit has run into someone and said, hey, I've got this great solution for you. |
| 0:35.8 | Instead of investing in a Roth IRA, you know, those stink-y-all things, let's put you |
| 0:40.2 | in something where you can mimic the market, but when you die, there's still a benefit |
| 0:45.5 | for you. |
| 0:46.5 | And what do you say as well as universal index life insurance policy, something like that? |
| 0:50.2 | It's an equity. |
| 0:51.2 | It's one of the right. |
| 0:52.2 | Ratchet it up, set out the risk. |
| 0:54.0 | So I don't I don't want to speak. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm going to speak sort of vaguely, right? |
| 0:58.0 | There are tons of products that are wrapped inside of insurance-based products where you |
| 1:02.2 | have some sort of investment component. |
| 1:03.8 | And we've done countless shows on the ins and outs of those, how they work, what they're |
| 1:08.8 | I'm going to give you sort of the bohanson big overview of what I don't like about it. |
| 1:13.8 | I don't like when you combine financial products because I think when you start combining them, |
| 1:19.6 | neither of them can do the thing that they're supposed to do really, really well. |
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