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White Coat Investor Podcast

WCI #219: Financial Priorities as a New Attending

White Coat Investor Podcast

Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Business, Investing

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Becoming a new attending is a complicated time in your financial life. That first year out of training is probably the most important year of your financial life. What you do with your financial life in that first year, can predict the next 30 or 40 years of your financial life with surprising accuracy. In this episode we go over the financial priorities of a new attending, what you should be focusing on and in what order, from insurance and student loans to retirement accounts and mortgages. For those who don't fall into this category we answer listener questions about asset allocations for 529 accounts, having multiple 401k(s), benefits of a side gig as a business owner, improving your cyber security and avoiding identity theft, and if the pandemic continues to affect the income recertification for IDR.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the White Code Investor Podcast, where we help those who wear the White Code get a fair shake on Wall Street.

0:06.0

We've been helping doctors and other high-income professionals stop doing dumb things with their money since 2011.

0:12.0

Here's your host, Dr. Jim Dolly.

0:18.0

This is White Code Investor Podcast number 219, Financial Priorities as a New Attending.

0:23.0

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0:39.0

All right. Welcome back to the White Code Investor Podcast. We've missed you guys. It's been a week, right?

0:46.0

Actually, we're recording this the same day as the last one we recorded. It's only been about an hour for us, but for you, it's been a week.

0:52.0

So here we go. This one we're recording. What's today? June 17th. It's going to run on July 15th, so it sounds out of date.

1:00.0

That's why it's about a month before it actually runs, but I think most of what's going to be in this podcast is going to be just as up to date a month from now as it is today.

1:11.0

All right. Let's do a quote. This one's from William Bernstein.

1:15.0

He says, how do we know that economists have a sense of humor? Answer. They use decimal points. There are just too many variables to pretend great precision.

1:24.0

You might as well try to mathematically model your love life. I think there's quite a bit of truth to that.

1:30.0

You know, the social sciences themselves are not physics by any means, and finance certainly has a lot of things coming into it and going out of it all the time that are influenced by people.

1:40.0

When you put people in the mix, things get weird. Those you practice medicine, especially psychiatry know that very well.

1:47.0

Thanks for what you do, by the way, whether you are exercising today out hiking, whether you are racing the tour de France as one of our recent listeners is whether you are going to work coming home, whatever. Thanks for what you do. Your job's hard.

2:03.0

And someone will tell you, thanks for doing it. All right. In case you are not aware, we are giving away fire your financial advisor to anybody who refinances $100,000 or more of student loans through the white code investor links.

2:19.0

This is a win-win-win deal. If you are not going for forgiveness with your student loans, you can get a lower rate. You get cash back. You get a free fire your financial advisor online course. And you get better service than you are probably getting from your prior student loan companies.

2:36.0

So it's really a pretty great deal. Not only will you get the amazing cash rebates, we've negotiated, but now you'll also get another $799 in value that course. So join more than 5,000 other professionals who have created their own financial plan with the help of the white code investor.

2:52.0

That's valid for loans initiated from May 1st through October 31st, 2021. You have to claim the course within 90 days of loan disbursement. You can do that at whitecodeinvestor.com slash re-five bonus.

3:05.0

All right, let's talk a little bit about financial priorities as a new attending. Lots of those. It's a really complicated time of your financial life actually. Probably the most important year of your financial life is that first year out of training. In fact, if you tell me what you do with your financial life and that first year out of training, I can predict the next 30 or 40 years of your financial life with surprising accuracy.

3:30.0

So let's talk about some of the things you ought to be thinking about. It's July, right? We've got a bunch of new attendings out there.

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