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Maximizing Employer Contributions · Money In Motion with Klaas Financial

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  Speaker 3: C J.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing this week?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great. It's a beautiful day today, Sean.
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  Speaker 2: Also joining us this morning is Forrest ross Forest. Great
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  Speaker 2: to have you back. You're ready for the beautiful day.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, the sun is shining and everybody's happy.
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  Speaker 1: Darn right they are.
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  Speaker 2: What a great day and what a great topic I
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  Speaker 2: had as well as we talk with CJ and Forrest.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget of course, they come to us from Class
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  Speaker 1: Financial.
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  Speaker 2: As mentioned, we're going to be talking about the important
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  Speaker 2: role that employers play when it comes to retirement planning
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  Speaker 2: and some steps you can take when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: ensuring your financial future. One of the cool features of
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  Speaker 2: the question and answer come up during the program. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get rolling on this week's conversation, let's actually look
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  Speaker 2: back at last week's show and review the question and
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  Speaker 2: get the answer there as well.
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  Speaker 1: For the Class Quiz question of the week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah you bet well. Firstly, thanks everyone for listening and
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  Speaker 3: with it and we hope you do as well. And
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  Speaker 3: congrats to our winner from last week, which was Lisa
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  Speaker 3: of Wanna Key. Lisa correctly answered the following question it
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  Speaker 3: was true or false. You can make a twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: four contribution to an IRA up until April fifteenth of
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  Speaker 3: correct in saying that is true.
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  Speaker 2: Great work, Lisa, You too can be like Lisa Payple's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit later on in this half hour, as mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be exploring the important role, the vital
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  Speaker 2: role that employers play in retirement planning, in practical steps
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  Speaker 2: you can take to secure your financial future.
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  Speaker 1: It's all still spout that CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So some of these insights we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about came from the Retirement Survey and Insights Report from
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. They provide
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  Speaker 3: valuable data and solutions to help both employers and employees
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  Speaker 3: navigate retirement savings. But with us today, as you've already mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: we have Forrest Ross, who is our director of Retirement
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  Speaker 3: Services here at Coloss Financial and so he's going to
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  Speaker 3: dig into some of this data and the finding, So
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  Speaker 3: Forrest go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks CJ, and thanks for having me on the show
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  Speaker 4: again this morning. Good morning everybody, and let's start by
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  Speaker 4: first of all, discussing what employers can do to help
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  Speaker 4: their employees plan for their retirement, specifically through the four
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  Speaker 4: oh one K plan that they're providing to their employees.
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  Speaker 4: And this survey and other research really indicates that employees
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  Speaker 4: put a high value on retirement savings support and financial
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  Speaker 4: advice that they can get from their four to oh
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  Speaker 4: one K plan. And this kind of makes sense when
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  Speaker 4: you think about it, because when you're planning for retirement,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people can feel overwhelmed and just not
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  Speaker 4: sure what to do if they don't have the right guidance.
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  Speaker 4: So what can employers do to help provide some support
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  Speaker 4: to their employees through the four one K plan? And
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  Speaker 4: this survey indicated a couple of key ways employers can help.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, they can help by provide personalized planning
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  Speaker 4: tools through their four to oh one K plan. So
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  Speaker 4: these days, there's a lot of online calculators projection tools
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  Speaker 4: that can help employees figure out what's the right amount
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  Speaker 4: for me to save in my four to oh one
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  Speaker 4: K plan and how big of a nest egg do
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  Speaker 4: I need when I retire. That's one of the big
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  Speaker 4: questions that we get all the time when we're talking
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  Speaker 4: about participants about their four oh one K plan is
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  Speaker 4: how much do I save? How much do I need?
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  Speaker 4: And again, a lot of these tools can really help
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  Speaker 4: answer some of those questions for people and put a
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  Speaker 4: very complex question into very easy and understand terms. Next,
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  Speaker 4: an employer can provide financial advice through their four oh
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  Speaker 4: one K plan so employees consistently show that they value
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  Speaker 4: access to professional advice. Whether that comes through in person
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  Speaker 4: one on one meetings or group meetings or phone comsultations
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  Speaker 4: or zoom meetings. You know, there's multiple different ways that
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  Speaker 4: employers can provide that kind of access to employees that
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  Speaker 4: can really help them get some good guidance. Next, they
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  Speaker 4: can also look at expanding retirement plan features in their
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  Speaker 4: four oh one K plan. There's been some recent legislation
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  Speaker 4: that allows employers now some more innovative features like adding
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  Speaker 4: the option for student loan repayment matching program, emergency savings accounts,
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  Speaker 4: or even guaranteed income choices and all of those can
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  Speaker 4: really enhance an overall retirement plans effectiveness and also assist
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  Speaker 4: the employees as well, and then finally educate your employees
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  Speaker 4: again through the four oh one K plan with retirement
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  Speaker 4: with workshops and webinars, people really appreciate being able to
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  Speaker 4: access some of these wellness what we would call financial
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  Speaker 4: wellness tools, maybe when they're at home with their spouse
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  Speaker 4: at night. So giving the employees access to some of
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  Speaker 4: these more comprehensive financial planning topics through webinars and workshops
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  Speaker 4: can really be valuable to them as they're trying to
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  Speaker 4: navigate their financial situation.
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  Speaker 2: Talking this morning with Forest Ross and CJ. Closs or
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  Speaker 2: retirement planning professionals from Class Financial. If you've got a
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  Speaker 1: That's coss Klaas Financial dot com for us. Anything else
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  Speaker 1: I know?
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, the relationship employer employee is a unique one. There's
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  Speaker 2: also some some other areas that that employers can be
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  Speaker 2: really beneficial with their employees.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, and the survey really said that employers have
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  Speaker 4: a unique opportunity to what they call go from default
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  Speaker 4: to engage planning experience for their employees. So this means
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  Speaker 4: going beyond just the standard features like auto enrollment or
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  Speaker 4: auto escalate and really help provide their employees with a clear,
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  Speaker 4: personalized roadmap so that way they can use these different
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  Speaker 4: tools in the forum that they're being provided for through
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  Speaker 4: their four oh one kese services to help them really
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  Speaker 4: make intelligent, thoughtful financial decisions.
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  Speaker 2: Great stuff this morning Forrest Ross and CJ closs O,
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  Speaker 2: our retirement finding professionals from Class Financial. I mentioned that
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  Speaker 2: to you again. Their number six oh eight four, four, two, five, six,
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  Speaker 2: three seven. Talking in that last segment with Forrest about
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  Speaker 2: the employer side of retirement planning, let's kind of shift
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  Speaker 2: gears then and talk about what folks can do as
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  Speaker 2: it comes to being a four to oh one K
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  Speaker 2: plan participant. What can regular people do to kind of
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  Speaker 2: take control of their retirement planning?
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  Speaker 1: CJ.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So, whether your your employer offers extensive resources or
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  Speaker 3: you're managing this process on your own, there are some
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  Speaker 3: actionable steps you can take to kind of set yourself
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  Speaker 3: up for success with your employer sponsored retirement plan. Now,
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  Speaker 3: as I start talking about some of these actionable steps,
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  Speaker 3: just remember when we say this, often people go, what
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  Speaker 3: are they talking about? Employer sponsored? These are your traditional
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  Speaker 3: So if you work somewhere often not always, but often
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  Speaker 3: your employer will offer things like simple irays or SEP
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  Speaker 3: I rays or four oh one ks or four h
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  Speaker 3: three v's or fourty sevens or four oh one a's
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  Speaker 3: and there's all these different terminologies, but the idea being
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  Speaker 3: it is the your employer who is sponsoring that retirement
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  Speaker 3: plan for your benefit. So those are the plans we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about here, And these are the plans that have
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  Speaker 3: different resources potent available to you. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about some of those resources and how to empower you.
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  Speaker 3: So Number one, take advantage of various employer resources. So
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  Speaker 3: things like if your employer provides financial planning tools or
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  Speaker 3: advisor access, we would suggest use those tools. These resources
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  Speaker 3: can simplify decision making and clarify your path to retirement.
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  Speaker 3: Check with your h artist's team at your employer to
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  Speaker 3: see what benefits are available. And when we say that,
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  Speaker 3: we're referencing, like you go to the website for the
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  Speaker 3: four to one K plan, often they'll have these calculators
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  Speaker 3: like calculate if you're saving enough to actually retire someday now.
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  Speaker 3: Often if you work with a financial advisor, they will
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  Speaker 3: do these same calculations for you. But the of course,
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  Speaker 3: an advisor costs money, right Whereas these employer financial planning
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  Speaker 3: tools that are on the website, they may be less robust,
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  Speaker 3: but they can at least give you a sense of
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  Speaker 3: if you're headed the right direction. Number two would be
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  Speaker 3: to increase your contributions. Even small increases in retirement contributions
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  Speaker 3: can make a big difference over time. For example, raising
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  Speaker 3: your four one K contributions by just one percent annually
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  Speaker 3: can add tens of thousands of dollars to your retirement
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  Speaker 3: savings through compound growth over a lifetime. If your employer
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  Speaker 3: offers matching contributions, obviously be sure to take full advantage,
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  Speaker 3: and it's essentially what we would call free money for
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  Speaker 3: your future. Do be aware of some of the maximum
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  Speaker 3: contribution limits. We've talked about this in previous shows, but
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  Speaker 3: if you are under the age of fifty in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty five, you can contribute up to twenty three thousand,
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  Speaker 3: five hundred dollars into your four to win K or
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  Speaker 3: four h three B. And if you're over the age
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  Speaker 3: of fifty, you get an additional seventy five hundred dollars
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  Speaker 3: catch up contribution, and believe it or not, starting this
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  Speaker 3: year and in future years, if you're over fifty, but
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  Speaker 3: specifically sixty to sixty three, your catchup amount is eleven thousand,
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty dollars. So be aware of these ages.
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  Speaker 3: These are amounts going to want to like try to
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  Speaker 3: contribute to those four one K plans as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Really good detail, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: John, I was gonna say, and it's some really good details.
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  Speaker 2: As we talk with CJ and Forrest this morning over
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  Speaker 2: you learn more online the website class financial dot com.
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  Speaker 2: That's Claus k l a A S Financial dot Com
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  Speaker 2: and CG. I know a big CJ over the year
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  Speaker 2: is a big thing. I mean, We've done entire shows
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  Speaker 2: about diversification, and I've got to guess that this expands
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  Speaker 2: through through all aspects of retirement planning, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good point, Sean. So we talk about
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  Speaker 3: diversification within your investments obviously, So it's this notion of
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  Speaker 3: don't put all your eggs in one basket. So we
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  Speaker 3: call this be aware of the risk of your decision
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  Speaker 3: making right. It's kind of like the person who says, hey,
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  Speaker 3: if I drink and drive, it's unlikely that I will
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  Speaker 3: get pulled over, and you go, yeah, but you might die, right,
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  Speaker 3: not to mention you might kill other people. So it's
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  Speaker 3: right when you look at at these factors of decisions
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  Speaker 3: that you make. Similarly, like on diversification, you have to
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  Speaker 3: look at the consequence of being wrong. So the consequence
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  Speaker 3: of putting all your money in one investment is if
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  Speaker 3: that investment doesn't do well, it ruins you financially. So
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  Speaker 3: in a similar way. And by the way most people
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  Speaker 3: get this, they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, but think of
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  Speaker 3: that through the lens of financial planning decision making, such
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  Speaker 3: as like I save everything into my four oh one
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  Speaker 3: K plan. Well, if you do that, are you are
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  Speaker 3: you aware of your debt load? Are you paying down
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  Speaker 3: your debt? Are you building up an emergency reserve so
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  Speaker 3: that if you lose your job you can actually live
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  Speaker 3: without having to tap your four oh one K plan
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  Speaker 3: before you're eligible. You get the idea that would be
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  Speaker 3: diversification of financial planning focus. So don't just think about
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  Speaker 3: saving into your four one K plan. Think about the
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  Speaker 3: rainy day fund, the high interest credit card debt, the
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  Speaker 3: auto loan that you have, the mortgage. Diversify your focus
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  Speaker 3: outside of the four one K plan. And Forest can
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  Speaker 3: attest when he goes to different employers that we work
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  Speaker 3: with where we sponsor the four one K or I'm
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  Speaker 3: not sorry not sponsor, but we're the advisor on the plan,
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  Speaker 3: he will often be talking about these topics. So he
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  Speaker 3: will say, hey, here's not only what you need to
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  Speaker 3: be doing in terms of saving into your retirement plan,
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  Speaker 3: but have you been thinking about these other topics. Step
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  Speaker 3: number four would be to just educate yourself. So if
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  Speaker 3: you're listening to this show, you can you can check
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  Speaker 3: the box because you're already educating yourself. But read articles,
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  Speaker 3: listen to podcasts. You know, often our clients will reach
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  Speaker 3: out to us and say, hey, what podcast do you
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  Speaker 3: listen to? And so truly I love this question because
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  Speaker 3: I could give you, you know, three or four fantastic
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  Speaker 3: financial podcast to just up your IQ. And then you know,
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  Speaker 3: Number five on our list is review and adjust your
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  Speaker 3: plan regularly. So this would be your estate plans, your
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  Speaker 3: financial plans, your insurance plans. This is the whole of
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  Speaker 3: your financial picture. You need to review it pretty consistently.
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  Speaker 3: We believe this is where a financial planner can be
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  Speaker 3: a huge value add because they will systematize or automate
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  Speaker 3: the ongoing review of your financial plan. We often find
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  Speaker 3: that if people do it on their own, they spend
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  Speaker 3: all their time on one topic. Right. Like one might
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  Speaker 3: be like, I love my investments and I look them
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  Speaker 3: up every single day, and then you go, do you
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  Speaker 3: have an estate plan? And they go, no, if I die,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where my money is going. But I've
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  Speaker 3: got these great investments that are really great. You get
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  Speaker 3: my point. The idea is a good financial planner. We'll
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  Speaker 3: be looking at the scope of your financial life and
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  Speaker 3: kind of forcing you to pull your head out of
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  Speaker 3: the sand and look at it all.
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  Speaker 2: Talking this morning with CJ. Closs and Forrest Ross. They
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  Speaker 2: are our retirement planning professionals from Class Financial. I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: the website too, colssfinancial dot com. That's coss k l
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  Speaker 2: Aasfinancial dot com. Great website there, Tell for what number
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  Speaker 2: again their number six oh eight four four two five
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  Speaker 2: six three seven and CJ laid out really good information there.
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  Speaker 2: And I've got a guest though, for ust take some
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  Speaker 2: time and effort to kind of put that stuff into practice,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Absolutely? And you know, we really feel the key
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  Speaker 4: is to first of all, get started, take some initial action,
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  Speaker 4: and then stay consistent. You know, whether you're an employer
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  Speaker 4: looking to really empower your employees to make good financial decisions,
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  Speaker 4: or you're an individual striving just to get kind of
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  Speaker 4: on the right track and establish some financial security. Intentional
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  Speaker 4: planning and steady action can really make all the difference.
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  Speaker 2: So forst and what is kind of that personalized plan,
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  Speaker 2: what does that look like?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting because it's different for everybody, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: my plan is going to look different from CJS and
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  Speaker 4: CJ's is going to look different from yours. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: you really have to really try to look at your
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  Speaker 4: unique circumstances and come up with, you know, what is
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  Speaker 4: your income, what are your goals, and then do some
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  Speaker 4: really specific planning and projecting for how does your future
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  Speaker 4: look and how are all those different financial pieces that
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  Speaker 4: we talked about earlier going to fit together. But then
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  Speaker 4: you also have to be aware of, you know, things
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  Speaker 4: happen in life. It can throw you a curveball, so
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  Speaker 4: your plan has to be able to kind of be
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  Speaker 4: flexible and be able to accommodate some of those unexpected
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  Speaker 4: things that can come up as well.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with CJ.
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  Speaker 2: Closs and Forrest Rosser Retirement Planet professionals from Class Financial
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  Speaker 2: website Class Financial dot Com Tellphy number six so eight
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  Speaker 2: let's kind of work out some hypothetical scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: And kind of put this into action.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks, So, just to give a couple of quick
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  Speaker 4: examples here, let's say that we have Sarah and she's
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  Speaker 4: a thirty five year old mom working, so she's trying
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  Speaker 4: to juggle her child care, her childcare costs, mortgage all
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  Speaker 4: of her expenses, and you know, without a plan, maybe
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  Speaker 4: she's not able to even contribute to a four oh
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  Speaker 4: one K plan through her employer. If she does it,
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  Speaker 4: maybe it's just sporadically. But if she sits down and
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  Speaker 4: takes the time to develop a plan with a professional,
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  Speaker 4: maybe she's able to establish a budget to kind of
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  Speaker 4: get control of her expenses. That then she can start
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  Speaker 4: saving small, consistent amounts into a four to oh one
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  Speaker 4: K plan and maybe even increase it as time goes
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  Speaker 4: on and she gets pay raises, and those kind of
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  Speaker 4: action items can really help put her on track to
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  Speaker 4: be successful overall. And let's also take a look at
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  Speaker 4: maybe a second person, Jim, who's maybe thirty years old,
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  Speaker 4: hearing retirement and Jim realizes that he didn't start saving
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  Speaker 4: for his retirements until later in life, maybe either his
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  Speaker 4: late thirties or early forties, and he really feels like
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: he's behind the eight ball, right, He's like, I didn't
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  Speaker 4: start until later. You know, how am I ever going
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  Speaker 4: to get where I need to go? And the answer
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  Speaker 4: is he can still get there, but maybe he needs
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  Speaker 4: a plan to help make him realize that he can
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  Speaker 4: use those catch up contributions that we talked about earlier
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  Speaker 4: or other things to help make up for that lost time,
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  Speaker 4: so that way he can get back on track and
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  Speaker 4: optimize his savings and help really enhance his nest egg
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  Speaker 4: for his overall retirement. So here's really what we believe.
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  Speaker 4: The takeaway is, you know you can achieve financial security
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  Speaker 4: and retirement have a successful retirement. It is possible, but
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't usually happen by accident. You know, it really
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  Speaker 4: requires some serious intentional thought in planning, and you should
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  Speaker 4: really just start by assessing your current situation in where
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  Speaker 4: you at and then set out really clear, thoughtful, actionable goals.
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  Speaker 4: And please don't hesitate to reach out to a professional
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  Speaker 4: if you need help, whether it's a financial planner CPA,
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  Speaker 4: a trusted family member, or tapping into those four oh
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  Speaker 4: one K resources that we talked about from your employer.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be afraid to ask for advice if you really
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  Speaker 4: feel like you need it.
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  Speaker 2: Talking this morning with Forrest Ross and CJ Closs of
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  Speaker 2: Class Financial. Really great information this week as always, don't
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  Speaker 2: got the Money in Motion listener question corner and Tom
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  Speaker 2: took the time to write in he's got the following question.
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  Speaker 2: He says, my father recently passed away and left me
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  Speaker 2: his IRA. I've heard something about a ten year rule,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm not sure what that means. How does it
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  Speaker 2: affect my inheritance and what are my options for taking
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  Speaker 2: distributions in CJ.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give that one to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well obviously first thinks, First, my apologies on
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  Speaker 3: your father's passing. Always well, anyway, always difficult to lose
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  Speaker 3: a loved one, especially a parent. But to answer your question,
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  Speaker 3: when you're inheriting an IRA from a parent, understanding distribution
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  Speaker 3: rules is crucial to making informed financial decisions, So great question.
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  Speaker 3: Under the Secure Act of twenty nineteen, most non spouse
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  Speaker 3: beneficiaries like children in your case, must follow some and
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  Speaker 3: called the ten year rule. Now, it didn't used to
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  Speaker 3: always be this way. So you used to be able
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  Speaker 3: to inherit money from a parent it was in a
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  Speaker 3: retirement account, and you could use your own life expectancy
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: tables to perform distributions over your life expectancy, but not
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  Speaker 3: so much anymore. If the death occurred after twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 3: then these new rules apply, which is this ten year rule.
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  Speaker 3: And this means that while you are not always required
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  Speaker 3: to take an annual minimum distribution, you must fully withdraw
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  Speaker 3: all the funds from the IRA within ten years of
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: your father's passing. Now, I do want to just hone
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  Speaker 3: in on something there. You may or may not be
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: required to pull annual minimum distributions. It depends upon whether
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  Speaker 3: or not your father had had reached his required beginning
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  Speaker 3: date known as an RBD. If your father had reached
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: his required beginning date, which is just for rm D purposes,
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  Speaker 3: then you will have to continue pulling out at least
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  Speaker 3: a minimum distribution and then make sure that all the
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  Speaker 3: money is out by the end of the tenth year. Now,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: remember if this is a traditional IRA, as that money
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: comes out, it becomes income taxable to you. And finally,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: if it's a roth iray. You still have to abide
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  Speaker 3: by the same rules of getting it out, either you know,
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  Speaker 3: a little bit at a time, or all at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the tenth year. But there's just no tax
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: as you pull the money out of the wroth for everybody,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: just so you know, when our clients come in. Most
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  Speaker 3: of the time, not always, but most of the time
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  Speaker 3: we are actually spreading out that ten year that that
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  Speaker 3: distribution over ten years pretty equally, especially if our clients
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  Speaker 3: are old enough. So I don't know your age, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, depending on your age, it might just be Hey,
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  Speaker 3: if I'm in retirement, you know, and I need to
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: pull out the money and it's taxable as I receive it,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: how should I do this? Many times we're just evenly
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: distributing it. There would be an exception if that was
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: a wroth ira there's a wroth, we'd want to leave
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  Speaker 3: it alone as long as possible. But long story short here,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: this whole ten year rule has created a lot of
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: additional confusion for people. They don't know how to adhere
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  Speaker 3: to the rules. A lot of the custodians have not
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  Speaker 3: built tools to actually help you on this, so many
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  Speaker 3: times they don't even know think the schwabs and fidelities
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  Speaker 3: of the world to be like I don't know. It
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: depends on exact circumstances. Talk to your financial advisors what
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  Speaker 3: they'll say. So it just really encourage you when you
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  Speaker 3: start getting into inherited retirement accounts and needing to meet
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: certain guidelines or rules. This is probably where a good
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: CPA or advisor would be a big help.
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  Speaker 1: What did RBB stand for against CJ We haven't died all.
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  Speaker 3: A required beginning date. So for those who have heard
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  Speaker 3: us talk about required minimum distributions for Americans, currently, your
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  Speaker 3: RMD age is seventy three, the year in which you
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: turn seventy three, but depending upon when you were born,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: it may even be seventy five, so somewhere it's either
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: seventy three or seventy five. But your required beginning date
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: is April first of the year following the year you
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  Speaker 3: turn RMDH. So if your MDA is seventy three and
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  Speaker 3: that's in twenty twenty five, you don't have to pull
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  Speaker 3: out a minimum distribution until April first of next year.
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  Speaker 3: So interestingly enough, then you say, well, but my father died,
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  Speaker 3: what does that have to do with it? The question
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  Speaker 3: is did your father reach their RBD that April first
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  Speaker 3: of the year after hitting r MD age. And if
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  Speaker 3: the answer is, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, my father was
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: seventy eight years old and had a minimum distribution, well
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  Speaker 3: then you actually have to continue pulling a minimum distribution
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  Speaker 3: that was at least as much as what he was
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  Speaker 3: over those ten years, and then by the end of
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  Speaker 3: the tenth year, all the money has to be out
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: of the retirement account. Oh boy, A bunch of complications.
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  Speaker 2: So and for folks that don't know, I kind of
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  Speaker 2: keep a little cheat sheet glossary here when I like
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  Speaker 2: to jot down when I hear something new, I like
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  Speaker 2: to jot it down just when it comes up in
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  Speaker 2: future hills. And I don't think we ever talked about
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  Speaker 2: RBD before, so it's, uh, that is fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're just not listening closely enough, Sean. We have
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  Speaker 3: have We really did, really, I think so I seem
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