Rich Habits Podcast - Q&A: S&P 500 vs. Nasdaq 100, Retained Earnings, & Saving for a Newborn
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Hey everyone and welcome back to the Rich Habits Podcast question and answer addition,
which means you ask us questions and we answer the questions you ask us.
We answer them as if we were in your shoes.
You ask us questions on Instagram via DMs or inside of the Rich Habits Network also via DMs
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These episodes are my favorite, Robert, because we get to hear straight from the audience
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So our first question comes from Blake E. Blake says my wife and I are hoping to have children in 2026. We've
talked about her being a stay-at-home mom due to the cost of child care, but also don't know
what steps to take financially to even consider saving money. Can we afford this? How do we even
think about having children from a financial perspective? We don't know where to start. What do we
do? The first piece of advice that we can give Blake is to listen to episode 72 of the podcast.
It's called Financial Checklist for Parents, Current, and Future. If you're a future parent,
Blake, which it seems like you guys are hoping you will be, there's a ton of things.
items that you need to be considering when it comes to having this potential child that this
episode lays out for you very simply. So go listen to episode 72 first and foremost. But Robert,
what's your perspective on this? I'm glad to see people planning ahead, but just make sure that
you don't plan ahead so much because life can happen and things can go wrong. And so not to be
morbid, but just make sure you understand, don't go buy the big house ahead of time. Don't go
upgrade the car ahead of time. Just do the basics and make sure you have all your basics.
is covered. Do you have the emergency fund set up? Do you have your base being built or is it built
already financially that $100,000? Because what you want to do is plan ahead, but not so far ahead
that you're setting yourself up in a way that maybe isn't necessary. We had a question a while
back on an episode and they were talking about two years in advance upgrading the car and upgrading
the house. And I just don't think it's necessary and I don't think it's a great idea. It's really good to
look at it from the perspective of what is the added cost like we said in the checklist episode what is
the added cost going to be for this new child and how do i prepare for that and use this time
the rest of 24 and into 25 and into 26 to allow you to prepare financially based on what you
believe the costs are going to be for this added family member yeah i think just to dig deeper on that
robert it's important you know blake really laid it out here he said my wife is going to be working or my
wife is staying at home, what do the financials look like? Because we know child care can be two or
$3,000 a month, depending on what that looks like and what types of facilities you're going to.
And we also know people that work full time that also make $2,000, $4,000 a month. So in my opinion,
Blake, I would shop around at different child care facilities, ask, get quotes, get different
wait list times. I know it's a big thing to get on the wait list for really good ones like that.
Just to get an understanding of like, how much is it going to cost me if I did want my wife here
to continue to work, how much is that trade-off, right?
How much are we really making after expenses?
And then finally, back to Robert's point, stack cash.
You have no idea what 2026 might bring.
I have absolutely no idea what your insurance will cover, what it won't cover,
all the other different expenses that come with having a child that are unexpected.
So having that buffer of $10,000, $30,000 between you and life,
knowing that you do have a child on the way is a really, really big sleep well at night type mentality.
But I also think for Blake, do the math, do the honest budget without your wife's income.
Say you decide she's going to be stay at home.
When is that cutoff?
Is it at six months?
Is it four months?
Is it three months?
Or is it after she has the child and she gets that leave?
So I would really figure out what is the honest budget based on that?
So you can make sure that with your salary alone and whatever other investments you have,
that you can meet the financial needs your family is going to need without her income.
and then compare that to her income versus the add expenses of child care to figure it out.
I'm right there with you.
So our next question comes from Lisa D.
Lisa says, hey guys, I love your podcast.
Here's my question.
I'm 62.
I have no children and I've never been married.
I'm still working a full-time job.
Do I need life insurance?
I believe I opted out of my work policies life insurance for 2025.
I've never went out and got life insurance.
But I don't know.
Do I need it?
If I did get it, who would it go to?
Robert, what do you think about this question?
Yeah, I think it's a great question.
And Lisa, I think you don't need it.
In my opinion, I don't know what you would need it for unless you were going to do some sort of trade with another friend of yours that might not have any children and isn't married.
A friend of mine, we did that where we traded 5% of each other's net worth for the future.
But yeah, I think, you know, I don't know of a reason you would want to expend that money to life insurance versus investing it and giving yourself a better life that you have now.
that would be my takeaway. So if anyone has a better idea of why you would want it or need it,
I'd love to hear it because I don't know of a reason. And just to remind everyone, Robert and I are
big believers in the fact that life insurance is not an investment. Lisa didn't say, do I need to
invest toward retirement? She said, do I need life insurance? And as you all know, life insurance is a way
for you to supplement your survivors' lifestyles when you're gone. So if you have a Lisa, a husband and two
kids and you're the primary breadwinner and you're taking home $150,000 a year and you die,
then your husband and your two children who are not working and who do not take home any income
would be stranded. They don't know what they would be doing, right? So that's what the purpose
of a life insurance policy is. Say, hey, here's $2 million. Park it in the stock market. You know,
let it grow accordingly. Take your four, five, six percent, get the 80, 90, $90, $100, $120,000 a
year from it. And that's how you take care of your loved ones. It's not.
a, I'm going to go invest it with the IUL and then borrow against it to go start an LLC with an
Airbnb business trying to go make a billion dollars on a yacht. That's crazy. That's some TikTok
guru stuff. That is not life insurance. That is a scam. So Lisa, no, don't get scammed with IULs
and whole life insurance. And then two, for whatever reason, again, I don't think you need life insurance,
but if you did want to get it, go get a term life insurance policy and put it in someone's name. Maybe
they'd be just lucky to have you. Who knows? But I don't think you need it, Lisa. We need those.
I heart fake guru shirts. We need to make those now and we need to wear those because man,
the information I see out there, I just shake my head. I could have a whole channel just based on
reacting to these crazy concoctions these people come up with. And you can always tell with the fake gurus,
you can tell they've never done it because they just have no idea what they're talking about
and they're reading some sort of answer from chat GPT and it just cracks me up. It's just so funny to see
people that actually know what they're talking about and actually have lived it and it's like they
live and breathe it versus like someone trying to pretend they know something because chat gpte told them so
yeah exactly yeah i mean there's nothing like real life experience and that's why you know you and i
have such a good gig because of the 30 year age gap it's just fantastic so our next question comes from
trite n trite says how do i invest my company's cash flow my company needs about 200 000 every year of
to keep it going. We sit, though, on $400,000 of cash flow doing nothing in our checking and
savings account. So I've got this $200,000 discrepancy here. How do I invest this money accordingly
in my company to just make the most out of it? Robert, you want to take this one? Yeah, I'll start
out. I think that's great. You're in a good position. How I would look at it is no one should ever be
sitting on $400,000 if they're not using at least $200,000 of it a month just because you don't
want to have that money dead money sitting in your account. So I would look at it that I would at least
get 200,000 of it invested. You could do a company crypto account on Coinbase. You could do a brokerage
account that you enter into with the company and get that money invested. You could do a high yield
savings account, make that four and a half five percent. There's so many things you could be doing
with this money to earn money. So please don't let it sit in there one more day. Take some of the
things we talk about here, make the phone calls, do the emails, do the research, and get this
money working for you. Right there with you, Robert. I personally would not put my company money
and invest it, but I would park it into like a high yield savings account, T bills, things like that.
Like, for example, if I was in trite shoes and I knew that $200,000 moves in in my account
every couple weeks, couple months, whatever, and I need to make sure I have that buffer. One,
make sure you have that buffer, right? You know, this is not an investment. Your investment in your company,
your company's making all this money. Like, have that cash flow. That's totally fine.
Don't worry about like optimizing $2 worth or $2,000 worth to earn an extra a four bucks, right?
Have your business rock and roll. Now with the other couple hundred thousand dollars, what to do with it,
there's two things, right? One, you can pay yourself that money and then you yourself can go invest
it in your own brokerage accounts, your retirement accounts, tax advantage this, tax advantage of that.
We love that. Or two, you can take that money and park it in like a business.
high yield savings account or a business you know APY checking account or something so for example
i'm on nerd wallet right now and they've got live oak bank axos bank grasshopper u.s bank first internet
bank prime bank alliance all these different bank accounts that allow you to earn your business to
earn 3.7 4.1 3.3 4.2 4.25% apy on this money that you're just kind of parking now
in my opinion, if it were me, I wouldn't just park this money. I would understand very clearly
trite exactly how much money I need on a monthly, quarterly, an annual basis to run my business. Make sure
that there's no cash flow surprises and hiccups. Once I understood that entirely, I would then
literally pay myself as an owner and owner's draw, owner's distribution of that money that I'm owed,
and then I would set aside my money for taxes and then I'd go invest that money as the owner. That's what I do
all the time. I make sure as my own business, I pay myself a salary. And then if there's profits
left over, I'm not keeping those profits in the business. My business already has its like
$20,000 dollar buffer. We have that. So any additional profits, they're going to me. And I'm
been set aside money for taxes. And then I'm going to go invest that money like I've done
alongside Robert here into cryptocurrencies or index funds or startups or anything else in
between to allow me to personally grow my wealth. I'm not letting my business sit on nearly a quarter million
dollars of cash just for fun. Yeah, never, ever, ever, for everyone out there listening, don't sit
on cash. I know it feels cool. I know it looks cool. But at the end of the day, you know what's cooler,
waking up with profits every single day because it's invested and it's letting compound interest
do its job. And like Austin alluded to, I don't mean long-term risky investments. Just getting that
four or five percent in a high yield cash account. Maybe you put some of it in a blended portfolio
of all liquid ETFs that can make you eight or 10 percent a year, 12 percent a year. There's a lot of
things to do. Maybe you go invest in you buy out a competitor. Maybe you invest in new machinery,
but you should always have your money having pressure on it. You want to make sure your money is
always active and has velocity so it's growing rather than sitting there. I had a one-
on one call a few months ago with a couple who had a thriving business, but for the last 12, 14 years,
because they got wronged by a financial advisor, they had $6 million collectively sitting in their
checking and their savings account making zero. And if I would have met them 10 or 12 years ago,
that $6 million would already be $12, $15, $18 million because I would never let anyone leave
their money parked. So I hope this helps you and everyone else listening. Now, I just want to reiterate,
your business should have savings. It's called retained earnings, right? Every business needs to have
that buffer so the business doesn't have to go into credit card debt or take on a loan or something crazy.
And only you, Trite, know what that number is. For me and my business, it's like 20 or 30 grand.
If we've got 20, 30K sitting over here in the checking account that we use for a buffer, we're fine.
We're golden. Everything's great. Everything above that gets paid out as owner distributions and profits,
and I get the money and I go invest it. So Trite, have that call it 20, 30,000.
buffer only you know what that number is but once you figure out that number trite have everything
beyond that actually put to work if that means it's in a company high yield savings account which
you could do but more importantly it's in your own checking account then you go invest it in your name
as the business owner so there's a couple ways to think about it but you're going to figure it out
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Now our next question comes from Josh.
Josh says, hey, guys, I love your podcast so much.
It's really changed my perspective on investing.
I'm 23, married, and make about $60,000 a year at my 9 to 5.
My partner makes $30,000 a year, and we have a few side hustles online like TikTok and YouTube, and they bring in roughly $20,000 a year total.
So altogether, we'll make about $110,000 this year in 2024.
We built a small home debt-free on some land that we purchased for a really good deal.
I've been saving since I got my first job at 14 years old.
The home is worth about $200,000, and I just started investing in the S&P 500.
So here's my question.
Should I be investing in the NASDAQ or the S&P 500?
I noticed the NASDAQ had returned 156% over the last five years where the S&P 500 is only returned 90%.
Why would I put my money in something that's not gone up as much as the other one?
Should I just go all in on the NASDAQ?
What a really, really great question, Robert.
I love these types of questions because it means that people like Josh and other listeners are going in and they're doing the research.
They're not just typing in V-O-O on their portfolio, but they're looking at the performance of it, right?
They're actually trying to do the research and I love this.
So just to break down the differences here.
know we are big believers in owning low-cost index funds and ETFs that track the S&P 500,
the NASDAQ, and things of that nature. Austin, what is all this stuff you're talking about?
The S&P 500 stands for the Standard and Poor's 500. It's a list of 500 companies inside the
United States that are the largest and most profitable companies that exist. Large and profitable.
I like the sound of that. Now, the NASDAQ 100 are the,
the 100 largest companies traded on the NASDAQ exchange. There's no like real profitability metrics there.
It's just the largest companies by market cap, which is like their price tag, essentially.
So when you own both of them, you've got big blue chip profitable companies on one side with the S&P 500.
And then you have massive, you know, technology companies mainly on the other side with the NASDAQ.
Yes, the NASDAQ has done incredibly well over the last five years. It's up 156%, which is,
awesome compared to the 90% the S&P's done, which is why we tell you all to own all of it, right?
So some years, the NASDAQ might outperform the S&P like we've seen recently, right?
And then other years it might flip-flop.
The S&P might perform better, or it might flip-lop again, and maybe the Dow Jones will
outperform all three of those there.
So it's just really important to have this diversified bucket of call it five to seven
ETFs and index funds that allow you to have exposure to all of these different sort of bucket.
of stocks that exist in the United States.
Yeah, I think the key takeaway here, great explanation, is diversity.
You're going to hear people online every single day that you should go all in on the winners.
But guess what? Nobody knows when all in on the winners is the right strategy because no one can time the market.
That's why we always want you to have a balanced portfolio.
We want you to have active management in your portfolios, but we always want to have diversity.
So then that way, you know, when the tides are great and you're up a lot, you're winning, but then also you're mitigating your risk on the downside as well.
And that is why you can't just look at, well, Bitcoin is up the most this year.
So all my money should be in Bitcoin or the NASDAQ is up the most this year or a meme coin or whatever it is.
That's why you want to hold a little bit of all of it.
And I'm not saying it's spread super thin.
I'm not saying own 40 index funds and 40 stocks and 40 cryptos, but I'll,
tell you what, you could probably own five index funds, five stocks and five cryptos, and outperform
98% of the market because you're not going to be overly diversified. When you're wrong and you're
all in on one sector, you go broke and you're starting again. So I would rather leave some money on
the table and make better than average gains than go all in on one topic trying to yolo my net worth
to make it all. So just keep that in mind and I hope that helps illustrate why diversity.
is so important. I think it's a great breakdown, Robert. And just to reiterate, I pulled up some
real-time data here for you, Josh. So as you all might remember, 2022 was a wreck for the stock market.
The S&P 500 fell, the NASDAQ fell. Single stocks fell by like 70, 80%. I mean, meta stock was down,
like 60-70%. It was crazy. Netflix went down. Amazon went down in 2022. So the S&P 500 from its
peak to trough was 24.5% of a drawdown, whereas the NASDAQ was a 38.5% drawdown. So the NASDAQ fell an
additional 14% during the same period of time than the S&P 500. So if you're like me, like, well,
I would rather have my money and the thing that didn't go down all that much, right? Where on the
flip side, is the NASDAQ outperforming? Yeah, it's more to the upside and more to the downside, as we saw in
2022, which is why we say have both, right? Don't go all in on a single thing. Never go all in on Bitcoin or a single
stock or even a single ETF, right, have a diversified portfolio of low-cost index funds and
ETFs that have performed well over the last several decades and these blue chip stocks and
cryptos and you're going to be just fine. So Josh, two thumbs up from us. Really excited that you
listen to the show. And what a great question. Now, our next question comes from Tim W. Tim says,
I love the podcast and I've learned a bunch so far. I have a dividend question for you. I've grown my
annual dividends from $154 a year in 2022 to over $2,200 this year. My goal is to double it again to $4,400 in
2025. I've invested into SPI, QQQI, Disney, Verizon, and CVS. I have a traditional IRA. I have my
bridge account on public, and I have a 401k with Vanguard. Now, here's my question. Does it matter where my dividends
kick back to. In other words, I've been moving along with SPYI inside of my bridge account and I'm
enjoying it. But I recently bought some QQQI inside my IRA. If I want to enjoy these monthly dividends,
does it make sense for me to receive them inside a retirement accounts I can't necessarily touch?
Thank you both for the show. I'm super excited that you're going to answer my question.
There's a really, really good one, Robert, and I'll take a first stab at it.
So if you're someone like me who loves passive income and you make that money every single
month and it hits your brokerage account and you can't wait to take it out and either go spend it
or go reinvest it somewhere else or do something cool with that couple hundred bucks or a couple
thousand dollars depending on how big your portfolio is then you want to be doing that in your
bridge account because if you do it in a retirement account sure you'll get that money and it'll get
deposited to your brokerage account inside your Roth IRA for example but you can't take it out
because if you take it out you got to pay the taxes you got to pay the fees you got to
all the other stuff. So what we're saying is if you want to enjoy passive income, make sure you're
generating those monthly distributions and dividends inside of a brokerage account like you can on a
taxable public.com account that allows you to enjoy it, take it out, and have all the fun. Now,
we're not saying don't put QQQI or SPY in your retirement account. We think it's a great idea and I have
it in mind. And what I do, though, is I get paid that money on a monthly basis and it's now sort of like
dry powder, new money that I can invest every single month and always,
dollar cost average into my other index funds in that account like V-O-O, Ibit, QQQ, VGT, stuff like that.
So just know the difference is there.
If you do make this money and you want to enjoy it, you need to be doing it and generating it
inside of a bridge account that you have access to and not exactly a retirement account that
you can't really touch until you're nearly 60 years old.
I don't think there's anything I can add to that response.
That was incredible.
I'm just blown away.
So I love it.
Great question.
And Tim, just keep doing what you're doing.
and just you knocked that out of the park.
Well, I appreciate that.
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Instagram. Luis says, good day, fellas. I've been following your podcast for a while. It's very good.
Life-changing, I will say. Here's my question. I have $3,579 invested into the NASDAQ via my Fidelity
brokerage account. I am up 56% or about $1,286 on this investment. And I'm thinking about
taking profits. Should I take 25% of the realized gain off the table and then reinvest?
invested elsewhere? Do I take 25% of the total value of my portfolio now off the table and
reinvest it elsewhere? And if I took profits on the NASDAQ like this, I'm only 35. Where else would
I be investing this money? Shouldn't I want to have my money building long term in the NASDAQ and other
index funds? Look forward to having you answer my question. Louise. Robert, you want to take this one?
Yeah, I think it's a great question. And everyone that follows along religiously knows my answer. I would take the 25% off the top from
the total value of the investment, not just the unrealized gains. And what I would do is you have to ask
yourself and you already know the answer is, where else can I put it better? What else has outperformed
the NASDAQ better over the last five years? So especially at your age, I would only take profits now
if you see a reason that there would be a pullback in the NASDAQ, if you have a great use
case for the money, or if you need it for something. Otherwise, I personally wouldn't take profits
just yet because you're already crushing it with this investment and why take profits when you can
just keep rolling it over and letting it compound on itself. That's my takeaway, Luis. That's what I do.
But if you are going to take profits, I would take it from the total investment and keep rolling it over.
But for me, at this point in time and your age, I would let it roll, let it keep on building on
itself because as they say in our world, some of the best performing accounts out there are for
people that either died or lost their passwords because they don't touch it and they just let it roll.
So take that with a grain of salt, but it is really, really good advice for you to understand.
You should only be taking profits if you have a reason for it and you think you can make it better somewhere else.
I'm right there with you, Robert.
Yeah, if I was Luis here, I wouldn't even worry about it.
You're 35.
You've got 30 more good years of investing ahead of you.
Keep dollar cost averaging into the NASDAQ, maybe add the S&P 500 or VUG and there as well if you want to be
aggressive and just ride the wave. Of course, we'll see volatility in 2025, right? That's how markets
work. But even if we see that volatility, it should be an opportunity for you to want to buy more
considering your long-term investment horizon. So I would just keep rocking and rolling, man,
buy more, buy and hold. And hopefully this turns into hundreds of thousands of dollars when you
are in your 50s and 60s. And I am in my late 50s and I have owned the NASDAQ for longer than you can
imagine and it is just printed money for me over the years and years.
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