Workplace Retirement Plans
Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger
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🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Raise your hand if your employer offers a workplace retirement plan.  Keep it raised if your employer offers a match. Raise the other hand if you’re participating.  Now keep them both raised if you can tell me what fees you’re paying and what funds you’re invested in. Funny how all those hands just went down! Most of us have access to retirement plans through our jobs and Americans have more assets than ever in those plans and with the advent of financial technology (fintech), plans have become more robust. Some are using advanced algorithms to help employees select the most appropriate benefits based on information provided, while others assist participants with fulfilling future goals, like purchasing a home, sending kids to college, and ultimately retiring. Whether or not your plan is using fintech, there are specific questions that you should be asking:Are you contributing to six percent?Are you increasing your contribution by at least one percent each year? Are you getting the full match, if there is one?Are you using the appropriate funds based on your goals?Are you aware of the fees and how they change based on what you choose?The more you know, the more likely you are to reach your retirement goals.  “Better Off” is sponsored by Betterment. We love feedback so please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Better Off" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. Connect with me at these places for all my content: http://www.jillonmoney.com/ https://twitter.com/jillonmoney https://www.facebook.com/JillonMoney https://www.instagram.com/jillonmoney/ https://www.youtube.com/c/JillSchlesinger https://www.linkedin.com/in/jillonmoney/ http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jill-on-money https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/better-off-jill-schlesinger/id431167790?mt=2
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Jill Schlesinger, host of the Better Off Podcast. Today we're talking about how to make the most of your workplace retirement plans. |
| 0:10.7 | You're not going to get rich quick, you're going to get rich slowly. Good behaviors lead to good outcomes. |
| 0:16.3 | If we can help people in financial services, there's so many smart people. We need to help |
| 0:21.6 | people build good behaviors and that's going to create |
| 0:24.2 | wealth. Welcome to the Better Off Podcast. We're sponsored by Betterment the largest |
| 0:29.6 | independent online financial advisor. You know this is an interesting time of the year it's |
| 0:34.7 | a tax time and spring time and you're getting your house in order. |
| 0:39.4 | A fabulous time to revisit whatever financial resolutions you made earlier in the year. |
| 0:44.2 | Also a great time to think about how much money do actually have available to be |
| 0:49.6 | funding for retirement. Makes sense, right? |
| 0:52.8 | The IRS has all those new withholding tables out, but we thought it was a good time to kind |
| 0:57.3 | of kick you in the butt and remind you about how to use your workplace retirement plans. |
| 1:03.0 | That's why we invited our guest Tom Conlin. |
| 1:05.6 | He is from our sponsor Betterment. |
| 1:07.5 | In fact, he's the head of client relations there |
| 1:10.0 | for Betterment Business. |
| 1:11.7 | So let's dive into the world of workplace retirement with |
| 1:15.0 | Tom Conlan. |
| 1:16.0 | You are listening to Better Off with Jill Schlesinger. |
| 1:20.3 | All right, Tom Conlan, you are the next guest here at the Better Off Podcast. |
| 1:25.8 | How are you? |
| 1:26.8 | I'm well, how are you, Jill? |
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