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b'#159: Should a 36-year-old father of three invest primarily in Traditional or Roth retirement accounts? Should Rose, a grandmother of four, open a Vanguard account for each of her grandchildren?\\nShould Nancy, who lives overseas and is the sole breadwinner in her family, invest in a Traditional or Roth TSP? Should Scott\\u2019s wife rollover her 403(b) from her former employer into an IRA? Should Patrick, age 35, cancel his life insurance plan?\\nFormer financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I answer these five questions in today\\u2019s episode.\\nOur first caller is Mr. \\u201cThree Kids and Still Hoping for FI,\\u201d who asks:\\nShould I be trying to grab as many Roth dollars as I can before I can\\u2019t contribute anymore? Or should I just pour dollars into my traditional 401(k) and have my Roth conversion ladder and/or SEPP-72(t) ready?\\nRose asks:\\nI have about $1,200 for two of the kids. Can you please suggest the best fund I can start with?\\nCan you also suggest options for birthday gifts? I like giving money, and the kids don\\u2019t need anything materialistic. Stocks, perhaps? One stock at a time? Government bonds? I\\u2019d like it to be something I can give to them inside a card instead of cash.\\nNancy asks:\\nI\\u2019m 33 years old, married, and have an 8-month old. I work for the Federal government and we have a TSP. We\\u2019re living abroad and my spouse isn\\u2019t working. I\\u2019d like to retire within the next 20 years.\\nWe\\u2019re conflicted about whether we should invest most of our money into a Roth or not. We keep getting conflicting information about whether we should take the tax deferment now, or whether we should pay the taxes now and not worry about it when we retire.\\nWe don\\u2019t have much debt, and we have international properties as well as two properties in the Washington DC area. We\\u2019d like to know how best to manage the tax issue.\\nScott asks:\\nMy wife recently left a job at a hospital where she had a 403(b) and a Health System Defined Contribution Plan. What can I do with that money? Can I roll it over into something else?\\nSecond, what do we do with the 403(b)? My first instinct is to roll it over into an IRA, where I have more control, but my wife and I (with our current income) cannot contribute to a Roth IRA so we\\u2019re making use of the Backdoor Roth conversion. It\\u2019s my understanding that rolling money from a 403(b) into an IRA will affect our ability to execute a Backdoor Roth conversion. Am I understanding that correctly?\\nPatrick asks:\\nI\\u2019m about 35 years old and recently married. My wife and I have a combined gross income of about $100,000.\\nI have some concerns about our MassMutual life insurance retirement accounts. I think MassMutual is a good product, but I think we are over-invested.\\nWe\\u2019re both putting away a premium of about $500 a month (about $1,000 combined) into our MassMutual. The payout that we\\u2019re expected to receive at the end is about $350,000 for me, and about $400,000 for my wife.\\nI\\u2019m concerned that our premiums are too high and we could be using that money in better, more effective places. I tried to reduce my MassMutual payment a few months ago, and the cut in benefit was pretty drastic and not proportionate \\u2026 it didn\\u2019t seem very fair to me. Any advice?\\n\\n________\\nWe answer these five questions in today\\u2019s podcast episode. Enjoy!\\nBy the way -- TRIVIA TIME!! At roughly the 36-minute mark of today\\u2019s episode, Joe and I talk about the late Senator William Roth, the namesake of the Roth IRA and Roth 401k. His birthday is July 22, 1921, which means his half-birthday is January 22. Which means we can celebrate his half-birthday soon!! Tune into the episode to hear our only-half-joking conversation about this. :-)\\xa0\\xa0#AllTheCheesyBiscuits\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'