What Should I Do If My 401(k) Sucks?
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What do when you do when you're 401k just is not that good? |
| 0:10.6 | Brian, I am so excited because we get to answer questions like that. Hey I have this |
| 0:15.2 | financial thing going on in my life how do I approach it how do I attack it how do I |
| 0:20.4 | figure out how to navigate that that's one of the things that we love doing here |
| 0:24.3 | at the Money Guy Show, and we love being able to speak |
| 0:26.7 | into the things that truly matter to you guys. |
| 0:29.2 | So right now we have the team out in the wings |
| 0:31.6 | collecting your question, make sure you get them in the |
| 0:34.4 | chat and with that I'm going to throw it over to you producer Ruby. |
| 0:37.2 | Oh yeah we've got a question to kick us off from Jake he says I have a horrible |
| 0:42.3 | 401k. |
| 0:44.1 | My employer doesn't give any match |
| 0:45.8 | and the fees are close to 1.5%. |
| 0:48.9 | I've tried to talk to HR about switching providers, |
| 0:51.4 | but they won't budge should I get the tax |
| 0:53.5 | deduction and then roll the money immediately into an IRA or just skip it and |
| 0:58.4 | contribute to a taxable brokerage for now what do you think what do you do if you're |
| 1:02.3 | 401k I want to make sure |
| 1:03.7 | I clarify. High fees, I heard the high fees, what was the other parts that... No match? |
| 1:08.3 | No match. That's the big one. One and a half percent annual fee. |
| 1:11.4 | Because we get this question all the time. |
| 1:13.2 | People will say, hey, I don't have a match. |
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