"When Should I Use My Emergency Fund?"
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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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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