What Makes a Good 401(k)?

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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When interest rates rise, investors are supposed to move to safer assets. (00:14) Jim Gillies and Ricky Mulvey discuss: - Medpace shares hitting an all time high. - If investors should prepare for a market correction during a "dopamine fiesta". - The bull case for air bags and seatbelts. Plus, (16:37) Robert Brokamp takes a look at how Americans are saving for retirement, and how to make better use of a 401(k). Companies discussed: MEDP, ALV Pullback report: www.fool.com/pullback Host: Ricky Mulvey Guests: Jim Gilles, Robert Brokamp Engineers: Tim Sparks, Heather Horton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey remember what higher interest rates were supposed to do to stocks?
0:08.7	You're listening to Motley Full Money.
0:11.3	I'm Ricky Mollvee, joined today by Jim Gilley's Gym.
0:17.2	Good to see you on this earning season.
0:19.5	That's good to be seen Ricky.
0:21.0	So before we dive into some of these off the beaten path companies that you want to talk
0:26.0	about, we got a great question from Marco in Mexico City.
0:29.9	He wrote to us quote, I just started investing early this year thanks in no small part to you
0:35.6	guys.
0:36.6	As you know this year has been amazing for investing and so far it's been a dopamine
0:40.3	fiesta to see everything go up and up and up.
0:43.0	However, I feel like I need to start to mentalize for correction very soon.
0:47.7	Isn't everything overvalued right now?
0:49.6	Is the rally justified?
0:50.6	I'm seeing the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 and almost every major stock following the same
0:55.7	pattern of 2021.
0:57.6	I know these things are impossible to predict that past performance doesn't indicate future
1:01.4	performance and that I should keep my mind focused on the long game.
1:05.3	But seeing major indexes reach the same value they had in late 2021 makes my primitive
1:11.0	mind screen panic and I feel like I need to be mentally prepared for another fall.
1:16.2	Do you have any advice for this novice investor?
1:19.0	I have actually quite a bit of advice for this novice investor or at least a few comments,
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