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Your Money Guide on the Side

The Only Investing Rule You Will Ever Need

Your Money Guide on the Side

Tyler Gardner

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Investing, How To

4.92.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As always, a MASSIVE thank you to this week's partners: Fabric: if anybody relies on your income, you need to consider term life insurance asap. Check out meetfabric.com/tyler to find out the right coverage for you and your loved ones. Facet: and even though I WANT to offer you all direct advice, I can't, as I don't know you. But Facet can, and they continue to practice exactly what I preach. Check out joinfacet.com/tyler today. And on to the show notes! “How should a 60-year-old invest?” It sounds like a reasonable question. It’s also the wrong one. In this episode, Tyler dismantles the idea that your age should determine your portfolio — and replaces it with a framework that actually works: invest based on when you need the money, not how many birthdays you’ve had. Because two people the same age can — and often should — invest completely differently. Instead of age-based formulas like “110 minus your age,” Tyler introduces a simpler system: The Three Bucket Framework Bucket 1 (0–2 years): Cash, money markets, short-term treasuries. Zero stock exposure. Bucket 2 (2–10 years): A glide path. Years until goal = % in stocks. Bucket 3 (10+ years): 100% stocks in low-cost index funds. That’s it. This episode walks through real examples — retirees, early retirees, 30-year-olds saving for houses, 70-year-olds investing for grandkids — to show why timeline beats age every time. Tyler also explains: Why sequence-of-returns risk matters more than age How to structure withdrawals using the bucket system Why most “conservative by default” advice is lazy The 10 investing terms you actually need to understand How to match allocation to goals without overcomplicating it The core idea is simple: Your timeline is your allocation. Stop asking how a 60-year-old should invest. Start asking when the money will be spent. If this framework changes how you think about your portfolio, leaving a quick review on Apple or Spotify genuinely helps. Hope this gives you something to think about this week.

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Stop investing based on your age alone.

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Start investing based on when you need the money.

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Your timeline is your allocation.

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Hello friends, this is Tyler Gardner, welcoming you to another episode of your Money Guide on the Side,

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where it is my job to simplify what seems

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complex, add nuance to what seems simple, and learn from and alongside some of the brightest

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minds in money, finance, and investing.

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So let's get started and get you one step closer to where you need to be.

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All right, welcome back.

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A few months ago, we released an episode called The Real Financial Order of Operations,

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where I walked you through the mathematically optimal sequence for deploying every dollar

0:48.6

you save.

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We started with putting on our own oxygen mask, then we got the employer match, then we paid off

0:54.9

high interest debt, then you got term and disability insurance, then Roth IRA, then HSA,

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et cetera, et cetera. Not going to lie, it was and continues to be a useful episode for you

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to use as a guideline, regardless of whether you follow

1:12.4

it step by step. And apparently, you all liked that episode and it struck a nerve. Because

1:18.5

that episode became one of our most downloaded of 2025. I got tons of emails, and most importantly,

1:25.4

a bunch of you actually left reviews on Apple and Spotify

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saying it helped you finally understand where your money should go. So, here's my familiar ask.

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If this episode ends up being just as helpful, please consider doing me one favor and leaving a

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review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Write one sentence about what you learned or what you're thinking more

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