White Coat Investor Podcast

There are lots of ways to pay for a home, 15 year mortgages, 30 year mortgages, fixed, ARMS, paying all cash. What is right for you? I answer listener questions in this episode about buying a house. Still not sure what to do with your student loans? Overwhelmed with how to tackle that giant debt in an ever changing political climate? The experts at StudentLoanAdvice.com are here to help guide you through the best options to manage your loans – our experienced staff have consulted on over $250M in student loan debt, and the average studentloanadvice.com client has saved over $190,000 dollars. You will receive a customized student loan plan using the principles of The White Coat Investor, get answers to all of your student loan questions, gain clarity about your financial future and start down the right path toward financial freedom. Book a consult today at https://www.studentloanadvice.com. You can do this and The White Coat Investor can help. The White Coat Investor has been helping doctors with their money s

When should you hire a financial planner? You don’t have to know everything about finance to take care of your own finances. You only have to know the parts that apply to you. The amount of knowledge you have to assemble in order to do your own financial planning and investing can be surprisingly minimal. But there are a lot of ways a financial planner can help you. We discuss these ways and when it would be smart to hire professional help with your finances in this episode. Do you ever find yourself wishing there was somewhere to go to ask your finance, insurance or investing questions? The White Coat Investor community is a great place to turn. We have a thriving community across all of our social channels - facebook, twitter, instagram, reddit and our WCI forum. We have been discussing solutions to your money problems since 2011. Join the conversation with thousands of other White Coat Investors. Follow WCI on your favorite social media platform for financial resources, tips and strategies. Just head to yo

Let’s talk about How to Get Rich. First thing is to avoid getting poor. That means minimizing the cost of your education, making sure you match. Making sure you get through your training. That doctor income is going to fuel your wealth creation. Even if you end up with a great side gig or become a real estate mogul, the doctor income is going to kick that off. It’s the cash cow. So make sure you get it. In this episode we discuss the other steps to becoming rich as a doctor. If you’re looking to Boost Returns, Lower Taxes & Build Wealth, join the WCI monthly Real Estate Opportunities list for tips and strategies to maximize your real estate returns and for introductions to exclusive investment opportunities. Expect educational emails that introduce you to syndicators, fund companies, online courses, and online real estate platforms. Go to https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/reopportunities to sign up today. You can do this and The White Coat Investor can help. The White Coat Investor has been helping doctor

Two readers are on this week's episode, a dentist and an attending physician. Both are in the process of taking control of their money and moving on from their financial advisors. I have no problem whatsoever with using an advisor, so long as the advisor charges a fair price for good advice. If the advisor charges too much, or gives bad advice (or both as is often the case), you should fire them. You can then either hire a good advisor, or become your own financial advisor. In this episode we discuss how to break up with your advisor and move on. If you’re like most doctors, nobody taught you anything about personal finance or investing during your undergrad, professional school, or residency. And even though your family - and perhaps even your business - rely on you to be the Chief Financial Officer, you have never been given the tools to succeed. Enroll in WCI Financial Boot Camp, a FREE educational email series, and learn to convert your high income to wealth. You will learn the basics of investing, saving

A resident listener and a medical school listener come on the podcast today to have their financial questions answered. Still not sure what to do with your student loans? Overwhelmed with how to tackle that giant debt in an ever changing political climate? The experts at StudentLoanAdvice.com are here to help guide you through the best options to manage your loans – our experienced staff have consulted on over $250M in student loan debt, and the average studentloanadvice.com client has saved over $190,000 dollars. You will receive a customized student loan plan using the principles of The White Coat Investor, get answers to all of your student loan questions, gain clarity about your financial future and start down the right path toward financial freedom. Book a consult today at https://www.studentloanadvice.com . You can do this and The White Coat Investor can help. The White Coat Investor has been helping doctors with their money since 2011. Our free financial planning resource covers a variety of topics fro

Interview with Dr. Peter Kim, founder of Curbside Real Estate, addressing physician-specific issues encountered during the home buying process. We talk about how to avoid the most common mistakes doctors make when buying a home and how Curbside can save you time, money and stress. Did you know that the White Coat Investor not only has a podcast and a blog but several books that will help you on your way to financial independence. These books cover topics such as asset protection and minimizing your taxes to keep more of your hard earned money. They discuss plans for insurance, housing, spending, student loan elimination, investing and estate planning. You can learn how to become a millionaire within 5-10 years of leaving residency and how to invest in a sensible low cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of a financial advisor. There is even a book geared directly toward medical and dental students so you can start optimizing your finances early in your professional journey. Find the book t

In this episode I interview Michelle Finkel. Dr. Finkel is a former Harvard Medical School faculty member with admissions experience and a board certified emergency physician. She started Insider Medical Admissions to use her experience and expertise to guide clients through the medical admissions process successfully through reviewing essays and conducting mock interviews. She has helped well over a thousand clients from the strongly competitive to the sink or swim candidate successfully gain access to medical school. If you are looking at medical school this episode is for you. Love what you hear on the podcast? Looking for more great White Coat Investor content? Head over to our YouTube channel where you can watch video recordings of our podcast, short snippets of financial tips explained succinctly by me and others, and deep dives into topics for more in depth learning. You can even learn all about real estate with webinars from our real estate partners. Check out all this and more at https://www.youtube.

Lots of listener's voices on this episode. The speakpipe to record your questions is working well! I answer your colleagues questions about contributing to a Roth IRA for those married filing separately, taking out a 401(k) loan, funding HSAs, when it makes sense to file as an S Corp, exchanging an annuity, and more. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ At some point in our financial lives, it will be time to buy a home. A physician mortgage can be a good vehicle for a young doctor who’s just out of school and has a more effective place to use their money than on a big down payment. These loans allow doctors to secure a mortgage with fewer restrictions and a lower down payment than a conventional mortgage. But if you’re further advanced in your career or deeper into your journey to financial freedom, buying a home with a con

I'm often asked questions about investing in a surgery center but it is something that I have no experience with. So I brought on someone who does have experience as well as a doctor that is just at the beginning of the surgery center investment in his career to discuss this type of opportunity, the pros and cons, and what you should be looking for when given the opportunity to invest. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ I estimate that 80% of doctors need, want, and should use a financial advisor and/or an investment manager. Some investment gurus such as Dr. William Bernstein think my estimate is way too low. At any rate, if you want to use an advisor temporarily or for your entire life, there is no reason to feel guilty about it—just make sure you are getting good advice at a fair price. If you need help updating your fi

Dr. Schofer is board certified in EM and currently serves in the U.S. Navy. Whenever I write anything inaccurate about being a military doctor he is gracious enough to set me straight. He has been a valuable resource to the WCI community and anyone who has ever thought about doing military medicine would do well to listen to this interview. There are a lot of unique aspects of practicing medicine in the military and we cover them in this episode. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/ for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ Getting quality disability and life insurance should be the first financial chore for a doctor to complete. Most docs don't have the ideal policy for their gender, specialty, state, or health status and 1 in 7 doctors get disabled at some point during their career. Because these policies can only be purchased through brokers, we have put togethe

Over the years, I’ve invested across the entire spectrum of real estate investments, from owning and managing an individual property and its tenant to buying and holding a REIT index fund. This has included investments with half a dozen crowdfunding sites, some individual syndicated investments bought directly from the syndicator and private real estate funds. Over time, I’ve gravitated more and more toward the real estate funds. In this episode I discuss the reasons why. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/ for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ As a white coat, you have valuable knowledge. Various companies want that knowledge. And they’re willing to pay you for it! That’s why we’ve put together a list of recommendations for companies that pay you to take surveys. If you’re looking for a profitable side gig for not too much effort, getting paid for surveys cou

"As a young attending who has put into effect the many themes presented by the WCI, how would you recommend I go about helping my parents get into a better financial situation?" This is the main listener question I answer in this week's episode. Tread lightly if you are thinking about taking on the role of financial advisor to your parents. I explain many things you should think about before doing this. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums  No more wading through dozens of books at the library, scrolling through hundreds of blog posts on dozens of blogs, or checking in daily with online forums trying to gain a financial education the way the hobbyists do. For a fraction of the price of hiring a professional financial planner, the Fire Your Financial Advisor online course will take you from feeling anxious and having no plan t

Your three favorite physician finance bloggers all in one podcast again! WCI, PIMD, and PoF answer listener questions in this episode ranging from who is the funniest and is curling a real sport? To backdoor Roth IRAs, investing in real estate vs index funds, and what are the most important financial topics to teach new physicians. Plus lots more questions. You will find it informative and entertaining. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ The White Coat Investor is proud to introduce our No Hype Real Estate Investing course, which will provide the framework for developing further knowledge and experience as you progress in your real estate investing career. We call it an introductory course because there is always more to learn. But this is no short, superficial course. There are over 200 lectures and videos adding up to mo

It is a tradition at The White Coat Investor to update the members of our community on the progress made in the last year. As usual, last year was our best year ever in nearly every respect. Thanks to all of you who have even the tiniest amount of responsibility for that. If you told even one person about the site or book or podcast, answered one question on the forum or Facebook group, or used the site to find a financial service provider you needed, THANK YOU. In this episode I talk about the state of the podcast in terms of the three missions of The White Coat Investor: Help those who wear the white coat (and other high-income professionals) get a “fair shake” on Wall Street Feed my entrepreneurial spirit Connect high-income professionals with the relatively few “good guys” in the financial services industry. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://white

In this episode I speak with Crispy Doc, a financially independent emergency physician in his mid-40s, married with kids, living in coastal California. We discuss his mid-career burnout and how it was transformed by financial literacy. He learned to manage his investments. He saved aggressively using smart strategies tailored to high-income professionals. As financial independence came he found that instead of wanting out of medicine he became more satisfied in his career. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ Still not sure what to do with your student loans? Overwhelmed with how to tackle that giant debt in an ever changing political climate? The experts at StudentLoanAdvice.com are here to help guide you through the best options to manage your loans – our experienced staff have consulted on over $250M in student loan debt,

I’m often asked “where should I start with the podcasts.” I thought for our first podcast of 2019 that I’d lay out the WCI philosophy, so if someone asks “what podcast should I start with?” you can confidently say #87. In this episode I discuss the 12 Steps of the WCI philosophy. Listening to this episode will help people to understand the basics of personal finance and investing for high income earners.  If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ Do you ever find yourself wishing there was somewhere to go to ask your finance, insurance or investing questions? The White Coat Investor community is a great place to turn. We have a thriving community across all of our social channels - facebook, twitter, instagram, reddit and our WCI forum. We have been discussing solutions to your money problems since 2011. Join the conversation wit

A listener emailed me who is lucky enough to get a generous gift every year from their grandparents of $14,000 in stocks. The stock is all from a single company that her grandfather worked for decades ago. Because he bought it early in the companies history it's basis is $0, meaning that they are on the hook for capital gains tax for anything they sell it for. The stock does relatively well and pays out good dividends. However, they don't love the risk of owning so much in one stock. He wanted to know what I thought they should do. Is the risk of keeping the stock outweighed by the tax penalty of selling the stock? Is there a way to convert this stock to a safer index fund without having to pay the capital gains tax? We are not all so fortunate to have relatives that gift us so much in stocks but it is still a question that I get every now and then so I wanted to address what to do with individual stocks in your taxable account, the pros and cons of selling them vs keeping them as a legacy holding in your por

In this episode I speak with a young periodontist about his finances. He is doing great, having already paid off all his student loans relatively quickly. But like many of the WCI listeners and readers he started out with a financial advisor that tried to sell him insurance that wasn't right for him and he is in the process of moving on from that financial advisor. He is saving for a house down payment, upgrading a beater car from dental school, saving to buy a practice, and of course, saving for retirement. Lots of competing uses for his money. He has all the same challenges his young physician counterpart has and there is something for most to learn in this episode. If you found this podcast useful visit our blog at http://whitecoatinvestor.com for more personal finance and investing information. Find an engaging and helpful community in our forum at http://whitecoatinvestor.com/forums/ If you’re like most doctors, nobody taught you anything about personal finance or investing during your undergrad, profess

I was asked for some good strategies for investing in bonds in a rising interest rate environment. This episode I discuss short term, money market funds, inflation adjusted, and stable value funds. But don’t extrapolate the past into the future. Interest rates may go up, down, or stay flat. I don't have a working crystal ball. So I prefer a fixed asset allocation strategy. If you are finding our podcasts informative and helpful, check out our website! Since 2011 we have been working hard to provide valuable personal finance and investing information through thousands of blog posts written by an array of authors. You can find information on how to manage your student loans, fix and avoid common financial mistakes, understand your retirement accounts, optimize your investments, find professional help at a fair price, get started investing in real estate, and so much more, all at no cost to you. You can find out more about the courses we offer, the conferences we put on, the newsletters we provide, and interact

Dr. Jason Mizell has been teaching a personal finance and investing course at his academic institution for medical students and residents for several years. It is inspiring to see what he has created and the difference he is making in the lives of these trainees. Did you know that the White Coat Investor not only has a podcast and a blog but several books that will help you on your way to financial independence. These books cover topics such as asset protection and minimizing your taxes to keep more of your hard earned money. They discuss plans for insurance, housing, spending, student loan elimination, investing and estate planning. You can learn how to become a millionaire within 5-10 years of leaving residency and how to invest in a sensible low cost and effective manner with or without the assistance of a financial advisor. There is even a book geared directly toward medical and dental students so you can start optimizing your finances early in your professional journey. Find the book that is right for yo