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Money Guy Show

Will Saving for Retirement Before 40 Make You Miserable?!

Money Guy Show

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

Investing, Education, Business

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

A paper found that young adults don't need to start saving for retirement until age 40. The study is based on "total life satisfaction" rather than savings. But, hang on. Let's take a closer look at this and see what actually happens if you wait until 40 to start saving. Who do you think would be more miserable? The person who starts saving before age 40 or the person who doesn't...? We'll break it down by the numbers and see what we can see. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, saving for retirement before age 40, make you miserable.

0:04.6

It's Brian Preston, the money guy, restoring order to your financial chaos, retirement,

0:11.6

investing, taxes.

0:13.5

You've got financial questions, he's got financial answers.

0:17.1

It's Brian Preston, the money guy.

0:20.4

Brian, this one is interesting to me, right?

0:24.0

You notice I didn't say that I'm excited because I'm not as excited.

0:28.5

When we talk about stuff that just seems like Tom Foulery, and if you've been listening

0:33.2

to our show for any amount of time, you know that we love saving.

0:36.6

We think it's a great thing.

0:37.8

So how on earth could we have an article come out that says that saving, especially young

0:41.7

folks, will make you miserable?

0:43.4

I know we're hitting on something out there with you guys when articles like this are dropped

0:49.1

and you guys hit us up on Facebook, on Twitter and say, money guy team, come on, give me

0:55.4

some feedback on this because I love that you come to us to kind of decipher how in the

1:00.9

world, because such smart people put out something so ridiculous.

1:06.0

So let's kind of jump into this.

1:07.4

First of all, if you want to know what all the hub hub is about, it's that there's a research

1:11.5

group called the National Bureau of Economic Research.

1:15.2

That sounds fancy.

1:16.3

They came out with a paper titled, is automatic enrollment consistent with a life cycle model.

1:22.6

Now, life cycle model in their terms kind of means happiness, you know, and full taking

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