Seven listener questions, one theme: the small stuff you never check is usually the expensive stuff. Fees, insurance add-ons, account order, and the plan you need before retiring decades early.
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What You'll Learn in This Episode
- How to find the fees buried in your retirement accounts and what to swap them for
- Why a fund's one-year return tells you almost nothing worth knowing
- The situations that actually call for gap insurance, and the one place you should never buy it
- Andrew's rule for financing a car without ending up underwater
- How to leave money to a child with a disability without costing them their benefits
- The two numbers that decide your term life coverage: how much and for how long
- A full audit of a listener saving nearly 70% of his income, including how he reaches his money before 59½
- How a union tradesman can stack a pension, a match, and a Roth to change his family's trajectory
- A phishing text pretending to be an Amazon recall, and how to spot it
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