Financial Feminist - 161. How to Open an Investing Account (and the BIG Mistake You Might Be Making)

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

If 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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Starting point is 00:00:30 at masterclass.com slash FF pod. That's the sound of unaged whiskey, transforming into Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Around 1860, nearest Green taught Jack Daniel how to filter whiskey through charcoal for a smoother taste, one drop at a time. This is one of many sounds in Tennessee
Starting point is 00:00:55 with a story to tell. To hear them in person, plan your trip at tnvacation.com. 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
Starting point is 00:01:33 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
Starting point is 00:02:23 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.
Starting point is 00:02:52 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,
Starting point is 00:03:26 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,
Starting point is 00:03:54 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,
Starting point is 00:04:30 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.
Starting point is 00:04:54 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,
Starting point is 00:05:21 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.
Starting point is 00:05:56 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
Starting point is 00:06:24 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,
Starting point is 00:07:01 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
Starting point is 00:07:33 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.
Starting point is 00:08:15 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
Starting point is 00:08:49 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
Starting point is 00:09:25 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.
Starting point is 00:10:09 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
Starting point is 00:10:46 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
Starting point is 00:11:36 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,
Starting point is 00:12:21 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. We have the recommended high yield savings account at our tools page, herfirsthundredk.com
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Starting point is 00:16:08 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
Starting point is 00:16:32 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?
Starting point is 00:17:03 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.
Starting point is 00:17:36 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
Starting point is 00:18:08 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.
Starting point is 00:18:48 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.
Starting point is 00:19:13 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
Starting point is 00:19:49 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.
Starting point is 00:20:27 It's your hard earned money. I want you knowing where it's going and I want you knowing why it's going there. So shameless plug, but I built you what I jokingly call the Hannah Montana of investing platforms because it is the best of both worlds. It is called stock market school. It is not just education, but we've literally built you an investing platform. You can invest through Stock Market School. There is live coaching with me. We train you how to be an investor through workshops and through a really, really simple, easy to use platform that looks nothing like the really
Starting point is 00:20:59 convoluted platforms you've seen before and only gives you the information you actually need to know. It was featured in the New York Times' business front page. We also have over 75 million dollars invested, the bulk of which has been invested by first-time investors. 80% of people who joined have never invested before and if you want more information, you can go down below. 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,
Starting point is 00:21:29 which is not just education from me, but actual investing through a new platform that is intuitive and accessible and inclusive and not jargony or Chad-like. 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
Starting point is 00:21:51 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.
Starting point is 00:22:09 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,
Starting point is 00:22:24 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
Starting point is 00:22:52 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,
Starting point is 00:23:21 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
Starting point is 00:23:53 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.
Starting point is 00:24:31 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
Starting point is 00:24:54 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.
Starting point is 00:25:20 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
Starting point is 00:25:53 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
Starting point is 00:26:34 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
Starting point is 00:27:16 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
Starting point is 00:27:34 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
Starting point is 00:28:01 also subscribe to the show and leave us a review. And if you're on Spotify, go ahead and drop a question down below in the little question box. Isn't that fun? It's right there. It's down below. Scroll down, unless you're driving, but scroll down. You can see it. It's right there. Submit a question. We'd love to hear from you. Okay. Thank you, team. We appreciate you. We hope to see you in stock market school and we'll talk to you later. Bye. Thank you for listening to Financial Feminist, a Her First 100K podcast. Financial Feminist is hosted by me, Tori Dunlap, produced by Kristen Fields, associate producer
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