meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Money Guy Show

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

Education, Investing, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

We talk a lot about your savings rate, but should that be from your gross or net income - and why? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Jump start your journey with our FREE financial resources Reach your goals faster with our products Take the relationship to the next level: become a client Subscribe on YouTube for early access and go beyond the podcast Connect with us on social media for more content Bring confidence to your wealth building with simplified strategies from The Money Guy. Learn how to apply financial tactics that go beyond common sense and help you reach your money goals faster. Make your assets do the heavy lifting so you can quit worrying and start living a more fulfilled life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.