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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

Education, Retirement, Moneyadvice, Investing, Savingmoney, Personalfinance, Business

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

"I have a horrible 401k. My employer doesn't give any match and the fees are close to 1.5%. I've tried to talk to HR about switching providers, but they won't budge. Should I get the tax deduction and then roll the money immediately into an IRA? Or just skip it and contribute to a taxable brokerage for now?"

We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode!

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Transcript

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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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