Podcast Episode #458: A Future Without 401(k)s: The Major Threats Facing the Conventional Retirement Model – Austin Hair (Part 2)
Episode #458: Dentist Freedom Blueprint Podcast
A Future Without 401(k)s: The Major Threats Facing the Conventional Retirement Model – Austin Hair (Part 2)
For this week’s episode, I’m sharing the second half of a recent conversation I had with Austin Hair of Leader’s Real Estate. (If you missed the first part of the conversation, make sure to check out last week’s episode.) Today, we dig into the major threats facing 401(k)s and what a future without them looks like.
Our past and current retirement models may not be around much longer, so it’s important to understand where the threats and opportunities lie that will allow you to roll with the changes and create a retirement that works well for you. Listen in to hear about the major problems facing the 401(k) retirement system and the options out there that can benefit your retirement savings in a much bigger way.
Minute Markers:
1:24 – My early 401(k) experience and why I ended up shutting it down and converting to IRAs.
3:03 – The major problems with your 401(k).
5:51 – What you can do if you want to go a different route with your 401(k).
8:53 – The direction our community tends to go in when it comes to retirement savings.
11:23 – Why I’ve been doing a lot of debt investing.
14:56 – The most resilient place to be as an investor and where you should start investing.
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In this episode, we finish up the second part of my interview with Rob Swanson and his eight rules of investing. (If you haven’t listened to part 1, be sure to go back and give that a listen before jumping into this one.) Today, we pick up where we left off, covering rules four through eight and talking about everything from decision-making to cash flow and risk reduction.
Listen in as Rob shares his incredible insight and experience in real estate and investing to give us a few rules that help make our decisions and investments more solid. You will hear about the importance of looking at margins before buying and what boxes need to be checked when it comes to predicting a solid income stream. Rob also discusses how to define and mitigate the different risks involved so that you can come out on top.
Alastair MacDonald is a private advisor to established entrepreneurs, investors, and business owners, as well as a TEDx speaker who lectures on economic, social, and financial forecasts. Join me today to hear part two of our conversation at the Freedom Founders Mastermind, where we dive into the concept of certainty, how to hedge against a volatile economy, and why the abdication model is no longer one that works.
Listen in to learn the reasons why Alastair is not worried about consumer price inflation (and what he’s really worried about instead) and why the 401(k) is not always the investment that it is made out to be. You’ll learn why he is most concerned about the issue of division and polarity in the Western world, why your business is your best asset in a volatile economy, and how you can maintain its viability to weather the most intense economic storm.
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