Should You Prioritize Retirement Savings or Your Kids' College Savings?
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to start with a question from Templar on high. |
| 0:11.6 | He's got a 401k question. |
| 0:12.9 | He says, what defines 401k critical mass when we can back off safely? |
| 0:19.3 | I'm 37 with 2.2 times my household income in the tank. |
| 0:24.1 | What does the age to mass curve look like? |
| 0:28.7 | Yes, so this is an interesting question. |
| 0:32.4 | Templar, it's less about your age. |
| 0:36.4 | And I'm going to say it's even less about your savings rate |
| 0:40.1 | and that kind of thing because you've probably heard Brian say before. |
| 0:42.4 | He is what? |
| 0:43.4 | The way that he got her motivated to save early on was he said, |
| 0:46.4 | hey, sweetheart, if we can just go pedal to the metal right now in our 20s and 30s, |
| 0:51.3 | when we get to our 40s, we can back off a little bit, right? |
| 0:53.5 | So you're probably saying, OK, well, how do I know if I've done that? |
| 0:56.2 | We recognize a lot of people have that question. |
| 0:58.3 | It's one of the reasons why we came up with a know your number course because I'm going |
| 1:01.4 | to argue it's not age based and it's not like even savings rate based. |
| 1:06.6 | It's number based, just like most things in life. |
| 1:09.2 | We have to begin with the end in mind. |
| 1:12.1 | If we do not know the destination, how can we know if we are on the right path? |
| 1:16.4 | And so with our know your number course, what we aim to do is help you define the destination. |
| 1:21.8 | Right? |
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