WCI #448: Smart Retirement Moves for High-Income Professionals
White Coat Investor Podcast
Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode tackles a handful of questions that come up often for high-income professionals planning for the future. We dig into how to optimize your retirement accounts and take advantage of key tax benefits, explore how cash balance plans work inside a group practice, and look at whether a target-date retirement fund ever makes sense in a taxable account. We also talk through what to do with your retirement savings over the next year if you won't have access to workplace profit sharing until the end of 2026.
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00:00 WCI Podcast #448
07:30 Optimizing Retirement Accounts
20:38 Adjusting Risk with a Cash Balance Plan
25:34 Target Retirement Funds in Taxable
30:55 Saving for Retirement in Taxable?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the White Coat Investor Podcast, where we help those who wear the white coat get a fair shake on Wall Street. |
| 0:06.2 | We've been helping doctors and other high-income professionals stop doing dumb things with their money since 2011. |
| 0:16.0 | This is White Coat Investor Podcast number 448. |
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| 0:55.6 | All right, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:57.0 | Thanks for what you do out there in white coat investor land. |
| 1:00.9 | You probably have a hard job. |
| 1:02.7 | That's why you get paid so much. |
| 1:04.2 | That's why you make enough money that you have to listen to this podcast. |
| 1:07.6 | I help you stop doing dumb things with it. |
| 1:09.4 | That's the whole point of what we're doing |
| 1:11.3 | here. I did a dumb thing with money just this morning. I bought another boat. Yeah, I know. It's bad. |
| 1:18.6 | It's bad. It's an addiction. Apparently, it's my third motorboat that I bought over the years. |
| 1:23.5 | It was much more expensive than my second motor boat, which was much more expensive than my first |
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