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Money Guy Show

"When Should I Use My Emergency Fund?"

Money Guy Show

Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors

Education, Business, Investing

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We get this question in different forms all the time - when exactly should you use your emergency fund, and what classifies as an emergency? We'll walk you through that question and more in today's Q&A episode! Jump start your journey with our FREE financial resources Reach your goals faster with our products Take the relationship to the next level: become a client Subscribe on YouTube for early access and go beyond the podcast Connect with us on social media for more content Bring confidence to your wealth building with simplified strategies from The Money Guy. Learn how to apply financial tactics that go beyond common sense and help you reach your money goals faster. Make your assets do the heavy lifting so you can quit worrying and start living a more fulfilled life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Without further ado, let's go ahead and get to some questions.

0:09.3

I'm excited.

0:10.3

All right.

0:11.3

First up, we've got a question from AusFan 1995, and it's speaking of dollar cost averaging

0:18.8

versus lump sum investing.

0:22.4

And you know, what to do.

0:24.2

He says, if I'm going to be close to the Roth IRA limit, and I'm waiting until 2024

0:30.0

for 2023 Roth IRA contributions, should I just dollar cost average from January to April

0:38.0

or should I lump sum it?

0:40.8

Um, well, do you have a thought on, I mean, I've got a thought on this.

0:44.6

Oh, look, I know how, because Bowen, I deal with this.

0:47.9

It's hard to unwind contribute, I mean, it's possible.

0:51.6

We help clients with it.

0:53.1

And if you are close to, I think that's probably a caveat we could have given on today's

0:57.1

show, is that if you are worried that you're going to exceed the funding contribution

1:03.0

limits, then to go and do direct contributions into a Roth, you might want to wait until

1:08.7

you're in to see if you fall under.

1:10.5

Now, look, if you're one of those people that, um, you just know, you're probably more

1:15.2

unlikely going to be over, there is.

1:17.3

And you have the opportunity.

1:19.0

You've gone through the checklist of you don't have other IRA assets, and you can do

1:22.6

back door Roth conversions strategy, then maybe you do want to dollar cost average that,

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