5 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Now, James, there's something called a brokerage account. It's also called a taxable account. |
0:05.0 | It's also called a joint account and an individual account. There's so many different names because |
0:09.1 | the financial industry just wants to keep you on your toes. No, but in all reality, we call it |
0:14.6 | the superhero account because this is an account that many people are not aware of in terms of |
0:20.1 | how should you be invested inside |
0:21.8 | this account and also just what are the benefits of that so this is a superhero account i |
0:28.2 | literally had someone call up vanguard and tell me they tried to open a superhero account and that |
0:33.8 | they had no idea what they were talking about because it's not a real name. We just call it |
0:37.9 | the superhero account, which is once again a brokerage account. So today we're going to talk |
0:42.3 | about what are best practices with this account? Why is it we even call it superhero account? |
0:46.9 | Are there other names that will use root reserves and otherwise for what we do at root? Yes, |
0:52.5 | there are. We're going to hop in. First thing I want to do is |
0:56.1 | read the comment, and this was in our community. And Abe T says, so I've heard a lot about how cool |
1:04.0 | this account is, et cetera, et cetera. Sure, I understand what it is and why it's good, blah, blah, blah, |
1:09.3 | but I want to understand if there are |
1:11.2 | actual cons of this superhero account. So why on earth, James, do we even call it a superhero |
1:16.7 | account? Well, typically investing kind of equals retirement in most people's mind. I'm going to |
1:22.6 | invest money because one day I'm going to stop working. And that's true, but that's a very binary thing. |
1:28.1 | This money is either to be spent today or this money is to be spent in retirement. And |
1:32.5 | retirement accounts are things like 401ks, IRAs, Roth IRAs, etc. Wonderful accounts. Lots of great |
1:38.6 | benefits to them. But a brokerage account, so if someone's wondering, if it's not clear by now, |
1:43.9 | if you go to the IRS website and look up superhuman, nothing's going to pop up. |
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