Financial Feminist - 161. How to Open an Investing Account (and the BIG Mistake You Might Be Making)
Episode Date: June 6, 2024If you’ve ever wanted to know the steps to open and fund an investing account (yes these are two separate actions!), then grab a notebook and tune in! In this episode, Tori breaks down the essential... steps to opening an investment account, choosing the right investments, and navigating the complexities of the financial world with confidence. If you’re a newbie investor or haven’t invested yet because you’re unsure where to begin, this episode will equip you with the knowledge and tools to make informed financial decisions and begin confidently growing your wealth. Read transcripts, learn more about our guests and sponsors, and get more resources at https://herfirst100k.com/financial-feminist-show-notes/161-how-to-open-an-investing-account-and-the-big-mistake-you-might-be-making/. Not sure where to start on your financial journey? Take our FREE money personality quiz! https://herfirst100k.com/quiz Mentioned in this episode: Stock Market School Workshop See our HYSA recommendation How to Financially Prepare Your Kids for the Future with Andy Hill Special thanks to our sponsors: Thrive Causemetics Get an exclusive 10% off your first order at thrivecausemetics.com/FFPOD Masterclass Get an extra 15% off any annual membership at masterclass.com/FFPOD. Squarespace Go to www.squarespace.com/FFPOD to save 10% off your first website or domain purchase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tennessee sounds perfect. Hello, Financial Feminist.
Welcome to the show.
If you're an oldie, but a goodie, welcome back.
If you're new here, hi, my name is Tori.
I run her first 100K. I host this podcast. I have a book that's also called
Financial Feminist and I slept eight hours last night and God am I feeling good. I got
back from New York yesterday. I did not sleep well in New York. Here's the thing about New
York me. New York me goes to bed very late for me. It was like a midnight 1 a.m. most nights and
sleeps in late to compensate and then she has to get up to do Gordon Martin America at like 7
6 and that also doesn't go well because of the sleep schedules. I went to bed at literally 10 o 2
Woke up at 7 15 feeling great life is great yes got back from
new york if you're wondering what shows i saw here we go because i saw four okay i saw illinois it was
beautiful it was one of my favorite shows i've ever seen it was absolutely amazing if you're
going to new york go see it it is beautiful i think i cried through half of it fantastic
also my friend who I did theater
growing up with produced it, which is so fun in a fun little full circle. So that's the
first show I saw. Second show I saw, was it Sufs after that? Yes. I saw Sufs. I thought
it was good. It wasn't my favorite show. I think it's very important. I think it's great
messaging. I think you're going to have a good time. It's more about the lyrics than
anything else. The actual spectacle of it is not much spectacle, but important message, kind of like a Hamilton
light.
So, stuff was good.
Saw Water for Elephants.
It was very acrobatic.
It felt like you were seeing a Cirque du Soleil show that was also a musical.
It was very beautiful.
And there is one song called easy and it is beautiful and it's the
song Marlena sings to her horse and the staging of it was just lovely and
finally I saw uncle Vanya with Steve Carell and William Jackson Harper who
plays Chidi Aragonye on The Good Place, and Allison Pill,
and Alfred Molina, and you're like, who's that?
And I saved the villain from Spider-Man 2 and a bunch of other things.
And also Aniki Noni Rose, who is one of Tony, but you might know her better as the voice
of Tiana from Princess and the Frog.
It was a stacked cast, ladies and gentlemen.
It was crazy.
And I literally cried when Steve Grohl came. I was just so excited to see him.
I am the biggest fan of The Office. I'm surely the biggest Steve Carell fan. I think he is,
you listen to any interview about him, everybody is like, no one has even like a moderate,
like, oh, he's fine. Like anybody who talks about Steve Carell, he is like the nicest
person and so kind. He has a general store in Massachusetts. He's like one of the people
I bring to a dinner, dead or alive, you know, that like three people you bring to dinner.
Like Steve Carell is probably one of them. And it was just so cool seeing him and William
Jackson Harper, because I'm a huge fan of The Good Place. They somehow managed to turn
Chekhov into a comedy. and I'm still trying to figure out
how that happened. Literally the two shots went off at the end of Uncle Vanya. And again,
if you don't know Chekhov, this is going to go right over your head, but it's very serious.
Any Chekhov play is like very, it's Russian. Everybody's miserable and at least one person
gets shot at in a show and he literally fired the two shots and he goes,
I can't believe, you know,
cause he misses, he misses the person he's shooting at.
And he's like, I can't believe I missed.
And everybody's laughed.
Cause it was funny.
I couldn't believe it.
They managed to turn Chekhov into a comedy.
It was a great show though.
So the TLDR, if you're going to Broadway
out of the four shows I saw,
I would say see Illinois and see Uncle Vanya. Water for Elephants is good, Sufs is good, but those two shows were
fantastic. The other fun update is I just did like a New York photo dump as of this
recording on Instagram and I showed probably the like most of my partner that I've showed,
even though I have committed, we will not be showing his face, we will not be tagging him. We will not be talking about who he is.
The funny thing is you can tell who listens to this show and who doesn't. Kristin, did
you see this? Because all of the comments, there was a bunch of comments being like,
oh my God, is this the soft launch? And they're like, you're dating somebody? And I'm like,
real ones know that we've been talking about this for like years on the show,
just not explicitly so on Instagram.
So it is very, very funny because there was a ton of comments and a ton of likes on those
comments that were like, oh my God.
And I'm like, we've been dating for two years.
I've been talking about it.
I talk about it occasionally on episodes.
So you can tell who's an OG podcast listener,
hello you, and you can tell who is it, which I think is funny. So that was my New York trip.
I saw a bunch of friends. My business partner and good friend, Elias had his birthday. So I
got to celebrate that, which was really fantastic. Yeah. Just got to see friends, got to do a bunch
of cool work stuff. And honestly, I miss New York already. I've been home less than 24 hours and I
already want to go back. So that's what's been going on in my life. We're talking
about investing accounts today. One of the most common questions we get is like, how
do I open one of these? Like just give me the step by step walkthrough, Tori. How do
I open it? How do I put money in it? How do I know I'm investing properly? What do I do
in what order? So we're going to give you the big ol like big boy outline. I don't
know. That was weird way of saying that. Yeah, we're just going to give you everything you
need to know. We're going to give you the ultimate guide because we want to make sure
that you're doing this successfully. And we want to make sure that you are actually, yeah,
not only making the right choices, but like not missing a step and actually getting
you started.
I think again, I've said this a million times in the show.
So if you are a super fan, you've heard me say this, but like if you are not investing,
you are losing money, the average person cannot afford to retire if they do not invest.
And if there's one thing I try to get women to take away from our work, other than all
of the other things that I say one thing I try to take away from your work, but truly like, I need you investing. It is your best way to build
wealth. It is the best way for you to set yourself up for financial success. So before
we talk about specifically how to open an account, what the steps are to get started,
let's answer first, who is ready to invest? If you are someone with a fully funded emergency fund, which is at least
three months of living expenses in a high yield savings account, and you've paid off
all of your debt over 7% interest, which is all credit card debt, you are ready to invest.
If you do not have an emergency fund, I love you, I will see you back here once you have
that emergency fund. If you are someone who has credit card debt, love you, love that you're interested in this,
I will see you back here when you have actually paid that off.
So those are the two big things of who is ready to invest.
You have that emergency fund of three months in that high yield savings account and you
have paid off all your credit card debt or any other debt over 7% interest.
Now why 7% interest?
Again, we've mentioned this before, but 7 to 8% is the average of return you can expect
on the stock market. And if we are spending more money by being in debt, then we could
be earning by investing, we're going to pay that off first. And if you need more info
about paying off debt, there's other episodes. There's also an entire chapter on paying off
debt in my book, Financial Feminist. So the second question is like, how much do I actually need to get started
investing? Do I need thousands of dollars? The answer is no. I think there's a common misconception
that you need at least hundreds, but maybe thousands of dollars to start investing.
And you don't, you don't need that much money. And it's actually more advantageous to start when you
have less money. Because of compound interest, time is
greater than the amount of money. So we want as much time
to allow our investments to grow for us as possible, rather than
stressing about, you know, getting to a couple thousand
dollars before we start
investing. So you can start investing with something as small as $50 or $100 or even
less than that. Time is greater than the amount of money. We can't get time back. That is
why it is so important to start investing now. So you don't need hundreds of dollars.
You don't need thousands of dollars. You don't need tens of thousands of dollars. It's not
just for rich people. It is for you. You need to get started. And if you just have
a small amount of money, great, we're getting you started now.
So before we open an account, we need to determine what our goal is. What are we actually investing
for? Because that will determine what kind of account we open. For most people who are choosing to invest, retirement is your big goal.
You should not be saving for retirement.
You should not be putting retirement funds, you know, funds set aside for retirement
into a high-yield savings account unless you are nearing retirement.
So when people call it saving for retirement, it's really investing for retirement.
So, big primary goal when most people talk about investing, they're talking about
retirement account investing. And yes, you are investing with retirement accounts. We'll talk
about this in a second. But 401ks, IRAs, you are investing with those accounts. And it's actually
really, really smart to do that. So retirement is like one of the big life goals that you are
investing for. A secondary goal might be investing for a child's education, for your kids college
fund and something like a 529 plan. We have so much more info on 529 plans in our previous
episode with Andy Hill. I will have Kristin drop it below. So if you want more information about that, you can go listen to that. So retirement, kids college, and then maybe you
just want to invest outside of that goal. Or maybe you have extra money after your retirement
accounts to invest, or maybe you even have a goal that is seven to 10 years out. That
is where we're going to use what's called a brokerage
account. Again, we'll talk about this in a second. But those are like your three primary
goals. Retirement, kids college, something else. Now, I want to highlight that something
else has a huge asterisk. If you are trying to contribute money for a goal, let's say get married or having kids or buying a house or
taking a kick-ass vacation and that goal is like five to seven years out or less. Let's just say
seven years left or less, which I think is most of our goals except retirement or maybe kids
college. That needs to be in a high yield savings account. If not, you take on a huge amount of potential risk.
Why? Well, because sometimes the stock market does go down.
And if you are not giving yourself enough time for the stock market to recover, right?
Let's say we are actually putting our money in the stock market to buy a house in three years.
We could be making money for two years,
but six months before we're about to buy that house,
the stock market underperforms. You might not be looking at as much money as you would have
been if that hadn't happened, right? And you're not giving yourself as much time or really
the stock market as much time for it to recover. So when it comes to what I deem short-term
goals, which is really like five to seven years or under. And for most people that is, you know, most goals are, you know, a couple years from now.
We need to put that in a high yield savings account.
We need to not invest it unless you are comfortable with that level of risk.
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So now you've determined your goal. Okay, I am going to say for retirement, for example,
and I'm going to open up a Roth IRA. Now this order of operations works for any single investing account you
are opening. So whether that is a 401k, an IRA, a SEP IRA, a solo 401k, an HSA, a 529
account, a general brokerage account, any other investing account. The account is not
the investment. I'm going to say that again. The account is not the investment. I'm going to say that again.
The account is not the investment.
These are not investments.
These are accounts that hold the investments.
These are investing accounts.
So let me tell you more about what I mean by this.
So if we're going to open up one of these accounts,
step one is to open one.
We're going to open an account. Step two is we're going
to put money in the account. So we've opened up the Roth IRA, for example, and we've put a thousand
dollars in, let's say. So that's step one and step two. I've said this many times on the show before,
and I will say this again. You have not invested the money until you choose your investments.
You have not invested the money until you choose your investments. So step one, open the account.
Step two, put money in the account.
Step three is you need to choose your investments.
The Roth IRA, the 401k is not the investment.
It is the account that holds the investments.
So where do you go about doing this one, two, three step process?
Couple options for you. First option is a DIY
platform. DIY platforms include Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, and it's exactly what it sounds
like. DIY. That means that you are opening up these accounts, you are putting your money in,
and you're choosing your own investments for yourself. Now, the pro with these accounts or these types of accounts is that
you're not having to pay anybody else to do this for you.
You're doing it yourself.
You're not paying a fee.
You're not contributing to somebody else.
You're not paying somebody else to do this for you.
But almost every single person listening right now,
this is not the best option for you.
Why? Because these platforms are fucking confusing. I am a personal finance expert.
I am a multi-millionaire. When I log into any one of these platforms, I like immediately break out
in hives. There are so many graphs. There are so many charts. You don't know where to go to even
open the account yet alone to figure out what to buy in the account and no one's guiding you and
you can't ask questions or if you can, you got to wait and hold or you got to talk to a guy named
Chad who doesn't actually know anything about you and your life and has a Patagonia vest and
is going to talk down to you like it's not a great experience and for the average person especially
somebody who is intimidated by investing a DIY platform is too overwhelming. So that is option
one but it's probably not your best option.
Option two is what's called a robo advisor. Robo advisors are exactly what they sound
like. They're like algorithms or a group of individuals who is selecting investments for
you through companies like Ellevest or Acorns or Betterment, Wealthfront, Wealthsimple.
There's a lot of them out there.
The pro with these platforms is that they're getting you started, which is fucking fantastic.
We talk all the time on the show about the importance of getting started.
So that is incredible.
The cons, however, one, they are taking a small fee to do this for you.
It's not huge, but it's not tiny, tiny either.
It's typically a half a percent.
Now, a half percent doesn't sound like a lot,
but let's all hope we're millionaires someday.
That's a good, decent chunk of change, half a percent.
The other thing with robo-advisors, well, two more things.
One other thing with robo-adbo advisors is that they are asking you
questions to determine what sort of decisions they should make for you. But most of these
platforms, I think all of them are not like interviewing you. They're asking you like
eight questions like, what is your risk tolerance? And you're like, I don't know, I fucking hate
risk zero, I guess. Or, you know, what, what day are you expected to retire or how
much money do you expect to have or what are your goals? And you might know the answers
to some of these questions, but you definitely might not for other things. And then they're
using that survey to basically decide what they're going to do for you. I don't know,
that seems a little scary to me. Finally, my least favorite thing, my least favorite
con is that they are fishing for you rather than teaching you to fish. The amount of people who come to us and again, they got
started, which is fantastic. But they come to us like three years later after joining
a robo advisor and they're like, I don't know what any of this means. I'm still just as
confused as the day I started. And I don't know why they're choosing the things that
they're choosing for me or how they're choosing things. And it's all still so confusing.
It's your hard earned money.
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We built it because I didn't like any of the two options. DIY was way too complicated.
We built it because I didn't like any of the two options. DIY was way too complicated.
Robo-advising was way too passive.
So I built you Stock Market School,
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Can I coin that Chad-like?
So those are your three options,
DIY, robo-advising, something like stock market school.
Let's say that you're not using stock market school
and you're wondering what do I actually invest in?
Robo-advisors will do that for you, right?
They'll pick what to invest in.
With but a DIY platform, you got to choose.
So this is where my book comes into play.
We can teach you how to research some of those investments.
I personally like index funds,
and this is what I teach in stock market school.
Index funds made me a millionaire.
I'm not telling you one thing
and then like doing something else.
Like this is actually what I use
and what I continue to invest in.
And index funds are group of companies or groups of stocks.
So if I open up my Roth IRA
or any sort of investment account,
I am opening up that account,
I am putting money in that account, and then I am choosing an index fund. I personally like VTI,
that is my favorite. And again, we have so much more information about how to go about choosing
these, about how to research them, and about what ones are right for you with personalized
recommendations, and they live in stock market school. Okay, so let's talk about what you need
to open an investing account.
Well, you need a little bit of money.
You can't open up these accounts with zero dollars or at least you can't invest with
zero dollars.
You also just need a lot of information about yourself.
You sometimes need some tax forms.
If you're opening up one of these tax advantage accounts like a 401k or IRA, right, you need
to know how much income you're making, that sort of thing.
You also just need to have your ducks in a row in terms of, again, all of the rest of
your financial plan. So your credit card debt needs to be gone. You need to have that emergency
fund in place. And you also need to know exactly who is going to, and this is not a fun statement,
but it's true, get this account if you die. There's a section called beneficiaries and you need to determine if you were to die or
something were to happen to you, who is going to get this account?
A good option might be a relative, your partner or spouse or somebody important to you.
For me, it's my parents.
My parents get my accounts should I pass away, knock on wood.
So you don't need a lot more information than
that. And again, I think that's a common misconception is it's like, Oh my God, I have to sit down
and this is going to take hours and hours through a DIY platform. Yeah, it is. And I'll
tell you actually speaking of my partner, he's literally been trying to open up a set
by array or it was a solo 401k for like two months. Like sometimes the paperwork takes a while and they don't make
it easy for you. And I just, this is again, I know it sounds like a plug and I guess it
is a plug because I built it, but like truly the finance industry is so fucked. Like it
takes so much red tape and it's just a bunch of chads and brads and it's a trillion dollar
industry built off the back of making me feel like I'm too stupid to understand.
So I've built something better because everything out there sucks.
It takes way too much time.
Okay, how much do I need to set aside every month?
I got my account open.
I'm starting.
I contribute that first amount.
How much do I need?
Well, I always say, and we say this in stock market school, it's about consistency.
Now consistency can be whatever you define it as. It can be every month, it can be every time you get paid,
it can be every quarter. Maybe it's just when you get extra money. But there's no like hard
and fast rule of like, this is the amount of money every single person needs to be contributing
because personal finance is personal and you have different goals and a different life
than I do or Kristin does or anybody else does.
I will say and we're literally going to record an episode on this in like two days, the average
person needs way more for retirement than you think you do.
And retirement is the biggest expense of your life.
It is bigger than sending your kids to college.
It's bigger than you going to college.
It's bigger than buying a house because you will roughly live just as long without an
income as you had to work, if that makes sense, right?
So if you work, let's say for simple math, you started at 20, you retire at 65, that
is 45 years.
Well, 65, let's all hope we live to 100.
That's another 45 years, right?
35 years, math, 35, 35 years. It's about the same amount of time. You get
it. So you're going to have to work to retire about as long as you're going to retire and
you're going to have to live off that money. So I would do everything you can to max out
these accounts. And if you can't, that's okay. Just contribute what you can. But if you do
get a 401k match through your employer, we've talked about this on the show before, I would be remiss to not say it on this episode,
please take advantage of it. It's literal free money. It is free money that is offered
by your employer. Please take advantage of it. Now, if you are the person who has the
fun side of this, which is you actually make too much money to contribute to something
like a Roth IRA, we have episodes upcoming about what to do with that. But in the meantime, Google backdoor IRA. It's basically
being able to contribute money to a traditional and roll it into a Roth IRA. So that is the way
around it. And it sounds illegal, but it does not. It's very legal. I jokingly call it with
my accountant Cayman Island shit because it is stuff that seems illegal, but is actually very legal. Okay. As we're rounding out this episode, again, I sound like a broken record.
I know. But if there's one thing you do, please just get started. Please just get started.
You are wasting money every day. You don't start. It is time you cannot get back. And
as we know, time is more important than the amount of money. And if you are really confused,
I would love to see you in stock market school. And we
also have a free investing workshop. It is called stock market secrets. It is all of
the myths you've been believing about the stock market. It is how to overcome them to
actually get started. You can go to herfirsthundredk.com slash secrets to take that free workshop.
We will also link it down below. That is a great place to go after this.
Please don't just listen to this episode
and let it wash over you and be like,
cool, that was some good information
that I'm gonna do nothing with.
And I know that sounds harsh,
but please actually make a difference
in your financial life.
Help me not shout into the void
and help this information actually make an impact on you
and your money and your financial future.
So if you wanna get started beyond this today, take our secrets workshop, maybe sign up for stock market school, at least do some
more research around investing so you can actually get started. As always team, thank
you for being here. Thank you for the support of the show. If you have any investing questions
you'd like us to answer in an upcoming episode, feel free to leave us a voicemail. You can
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Okay. Thank you, team. We appreciate you. We hope to see you in stock market school
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