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The Jesse Mecham Show

Singular Focus on the Shovel and its Size

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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How many dollars are you sending to your retirement fund?


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0:00.0

Hello, Winevers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number

0:07.6

387 for Wineb, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living

0:11.0

paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

0:14.0

I want to hit to save more money today.

0:16.0

Talk about retirement projections.

0:17.5

How do you save a big old pile of money?

0:20.0

Last week I talked about testing acorns, great service to make investing easy.

0:25.0

That was not a commercial, I just thought it would be funny to have it sound like one.

0:29.0

So there you have it. I actually thought it was too little of a needle mover and I think

0:34.8

wine average should concern themselves with moving needles of substance. So here we

0:40.9

go. How do you do that? Well you can obsess over all kinds of knobs to turn as it relates to your retirement and we are

0:47.6

prone to do just that we look at what's our rate of return that'll move the needle in retirement. We look at how much the

0:54.8

investment will cost. Love moving that needle because as I mentioned last week I'm a big fan of

0:59.2

Jack Bogle and he's the first one to kind of shed light on the fact that paying too much to invest is

1:04.1

costly. Not just the actual expense ratio of your funds but the fact that people

1:10.0

get in and out of funds like crazy and that costs a lot of money or that the fund

1:14.4

managers themselves get in and out of funds a lot or stocks a lot and that gets

1:18.8

crazy. I say stocks but I really mean any asset that the fund is invested in.

1:23.0

So cost of your investment matters a lot.

1:27.0

The length of time you will need that investment,

1:30.0

we hope you will need it for infinity. Well, maybe that's a little dark. I don't know if

1:35.4

infinity is really really a great idea. We hope you'll need it for a long and healthy

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