Should I Take a 401(k) Loan?
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's a question. |
| 0:01.6 | Should you take advantage of your employers for one K loans? |
| 0:04.4 | It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement, |
| 0:11.6 | investing, taxes. |
| 0:13.4 | You've got financial questions. |
| 0:15.0 | He's got financial answers. |
| 0:17.0 | It's Brian Preston, the money guy. |
| 0:19.8 | Yeah, Brian, I am super excited to talk about this because I think we're going to be |
| 0:24.8 | able to write a wrong. |
| 0:26.4 | I think we're going to share some good information that folks might not have otherwise known about |
| 0:33.2 | and prevent you from hopefully making potentially a huge mistake. |
| 0:37.0 | Now we saw in our YouTube comments because we are part of a live stream and we had folks |
| 0:42.2 | that said, well, this is easy. |
| 0:43.7 | They go just say no. |
| 0:44.8 | So before we jump to the answer, but why don't we first walk them through what the brochure |
| 0:51.4 | says for one K loans provide for employees? |
| 0:55.2 | Yes, let's talk a little bit about what is a 401K loan and how does it operate? |
| 1:00.2 | The first thing is a 401K loan allows you to borrow money from your retirement account. |
| 1:05.6 | If you've been saving inside of an employer-sponsored 401K, rather than having to take a |
| 1:10.1 | distribution, rather than having to trigger taxes, rather than having to trigger a penalty, |
| 1:14.5 | you can actually borrow money from yourself. |
| 1:17.1 | You may be wondering, who does this? |
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