How to Invest in a Taxable Account | Live Q&A

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Video Resources & Timestamps
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0:00 - Welcome to The Financial Freedom Show!
1:50 - What is "tax efficiency?"
9:52 - Rob's Re-Balancing quandary
13:34 - Passing HSAs to heirs (HSAs vs. Roth IRAs)
15:43 - Jeremy Grantham's dire prediction - skew to Int'l or USA sectors?
23:30 - Bengals going to the Super Bowl
23:44 - State taxable HSA in CA?
25:20 - Fund selections based on taxable vs. tax-advantaged
26:37 - NTSX (invests on margin) vs. VOO
30:20 - ETFRC.com - Fund Overlap tool
31:57 - I Bonds or VTSX as a first taxable fund?
34:04 - Cloning Super Investors?
36:13 - 50/50 split in Bonds? FXNAX & FIPDX
40:26 - Six-fund to Three-fund on Vanguard, which funds?
42:58 - Convert Cash to Three-fund at Fidelity
43:44 - Three-fund portfolio and the Bogleheads
44:53 - Canadian Portfolio question
47:27 - Rob's International equity percentage
48:37 - Wellington in a taxable account
51:34 - Covered-call ETFs for income
53:34 - Thrift Saving Plan question (migrate from... )
55:35 - SCHD, VTIAX in a taxable or Roth?
57:15 - Rob's preferred withdrawal strategy (in retirement)
59:00 - Rolling returns and back-testing, limits of historical data
1:00:51 - Patience and poorly performing securities
1:03:59 - FCNTX vs.FBGRX
1:06:44 - RMDs and Inherited accounts
1:08:15 - Total Market or three separate funds in taxable account
1:12:26 - How much is too much HSA?
1:14:01 - Financial anxiety
1:18:36 - Bond investing with coming Fed actions
1:20:26 - Rob's Super Bowl pick
1:22:17 - Why no Target Date Funds that are ETFs?
1:23:23 - Four-fund portfolio: VT, VTI, VOO, BND
1:26:33 - Three-fund to SWYAX (2045 TDF)
1:28:30 - Dividend ETF in taxable account
1:32:05 - Apple's percentage of S&P 500, issue?
1:34:20 - Back Door Roth question
1:35:21 - Does Rob have a pension?
1:35:41 - New Roth, which funds: SNXFX vs. SWPPX
1:38:46 - How to invest $100K, SCHD vs. VDELX
1:39:58 - Is the S&P 500 really a Blend?
1:41:11 - Where's Salty?
1:41:36 - Prioritize asset allocation targets vs. tax efficiency
1:43:22 - Balanced ETFs, AOK
1:45:05 - Resisting the urge to tinker with portfolio
1:46:29 - New investor question, repay TSP loan or invest?
1:47:35 - Robinhood and margin
1:47:54 - Asset allocation with rental properties
1:51:11 - Long term impact on taxes, with foreign dividends
1:52:19 - Covered-call investing for long-term retirement income
1:53:28 - Bond investing resources
1:53:50 - Index funds relative to other investments
1:54:38 - Inherited IRA (old rules), transfer pitfalls?
1:55:34 - Super Investors, pt. II
1:57:22 - Got burned by Vanguard TDF tax issue, what to do now?
1:58:57 - Passive income question, stocks or index ETFs?
2:00:45 - Understanding the spread in sports betting
2:01:52 - Mutual funds vs. ETFs
2:03:20 - Wrap-up

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[TeddyAlexanderv]

Tax laws can be so complex, and it’s super helpful to break them down like this. Understanding how different policies can impact our finances is crucial for making informed decisions.

[iancho]

Aside from the interesting and for me very educational content, the thing I truly appreciate is not asking for thumbs, likes or subscribes... Thank you very much for the personal time donated to the masses.

[scole]

This man is a God send. Thanks Rob I have learned so much from your Book and website as well as your many videos! I am 45 and started investing a couple of years back. Appreciate your guidance and your honest transparent advice.

[danceoutnow]

Love your channel so much Rob. Just like the disclaimer I never use your videos to make financial decisions, but you've helped me a lot in the last year cut through the industry jargon and shown some of the questions to ask, which is infinitely more valuable.

I treat my taxable account like a high savings accounts because my 401k and Roth are set to maximize returns. So I have 70% invested in Dividend stocks like KO and 30% invested in Vanguards tax protected Municipal bond fund. The goal is that even with dividends being taxed, it still has the ability to add shares over time (and I intend to hold KO forever), while the Municipal produces tax protected gains that are still better than the 1% savings accounts rates (though not by much at the moment). I hope to not have to touch it, but both of those stocks are also easy to sell with low share prices if I needed emergency cash as well.

[kevinn]

Rob, I appreciate your videos and have learned so much from your content. Thank you!

[garyb]

Hey Rob! You stated that you goal is to be able to retire by withdrawing 3% or less each year. Did you reduce your income need by any social security you'll receive? If retiring early, how should someone approach deciding if a withdrawal rate greater than 4% is OK before social security kicks in? In my case, I think I'll be somewhere between 3.5% and 4% for about 7 years. If the market tanks, I could go over 4%. Once social security kicks in, I should be at 3% or less.

[alanzuckerman]

Rob, Vanguard shows the after tax returns for their funds. This might help in placing certain funds in taxable accounts. The Vanguard Balanced Fund out performed the Tax Managed Balanced Fund on an after tax basis over meaningful time periods.

[kimappreciateslife]

This popped up tonight after your livestream. Watching this on Dec 5th 2022! Lol, things have really changed big time! 😂

[greg]

Rob, do you know more these days about how NTSX works? It levers treasury futures for a 90/60 allocation of stocks to long term treasuries, effectively a 60/40 two-fund portfolio at 1.5x. The idea is to maximize the returns per unit risk and then dial up the risk to match a 100% equities portfolio. That increases returns over the 100% VOO portfolio except when treasuries and stocks are both dropping, which is true also of the 60/40 rather than being an effect of the leverage.

[politicscommentator]

Hi Rob, thanks for bringing up a Q&A on investing with taxable account. Hopefully you will do another one. Just want a clarification, do you still think that index funds as mutual funds are still good investment option in taxable account?

[paulw]

If someone had an actively-managed Small Cap Growth fund in a taxable account, they might be subject to annual capital gains taxation. For example, JANVX, had about 12% of the portfolio value in capital gains for 2021. I understand this can be avoided by investing in a comparable index fund or ETF (VSGAX or VBX for example).

My understanding was that Index funds are tax efficient because of low turnover. If VSGAX has a turnover rate of 24% (comparable to JANVX which has a 21% turnover rate), why has VSGAX produced no LTCGs over the past five years? Low turnover can’t be the only explanation as to why index funds are tax-efficient because VSGAX seems to have growth with a significant turnover rate but no capital gains.


I appreciate the low-key informational focus of your channel.

[LoadDeliverLLC]

Mr. Rob, thank you so much for your time and clarity in your videos. Also, are you going to continue to make videos after you RETIRE.

[danboruchowitz]

Hey Rob, enjoy your channel. Question - is M1 Finance a good option for a taxable brokerage account? I believe there is no tax loss harvesting available, but it does cater for tax efficiency. Perhaps you could expand on whether it's a good option seeing as though the pies and rebalancing elements are attractive. Thanks!

[jasonhobbs]

I’m betting NTSX will beat VOO in Sharp ratio over the next 10, 20, and 30 years. It’s really a very well constructed and evidence based fund.

Whether or not it beats in CAGR is a matter of where interest rates go.

[laserdrip]

Great content. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.

[jimgrant]

How can I watch when the video is live? I would I know when it would occur?

[eusacadena]

Do u have or can u make video on rebalancing. In terms of interval to do it in various Accts ( hsa, 401k, roth…) and talk about rollovers like employer hsa to broker hsa, what one time rollovers timing. Also hen choosing individual stock what bal sheet details is most important to review and what 5 u reviewed any why those. Thanks

[captainnitrousx]

Rob your the best and I have learned a lot about investing but I do have one question! Rob is there maybe a chance someone added something more than just coffee in that cup for tonight's show?

[shawnnahass]

Hello all remember with the tsp if u move the money before 59 1/2 from 401k to a IRA u will lose the advantage of not paying the early withdrawal penalty (10%) from age 55-59 1/2 which the 401k offers to your benefit that a IRA does not as long as u retire from your job at 55 where your current 401k is with.

[hectorrubio]

Hi Rob, what is the best time to rebalance a portfolio in a taxable account, when the market is down or up. I'm pretty new to investing.