Who are your beneficiaries?

10 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief video, the speaker warns viewers to verify who will inherit the money in their various financial accounts in the event of their death. He emphasizes checking beneficiary designations on bank accounts, retirement accounts, life insurance policies, employer benefit accounts, and brokerage accounts, and also highlights the special considerations for joint accounts. He stresses that beneficiary designations take precedence over any provisions in a will or trust, meaning the listed beneficiaries will receive the assets regardless of other estate planning documents. The speaker concludes by directing viewers to his bio link for a newsletter, implying that following his advice will protect their families' financial future.

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Who will get the money in your bank account if something happens to you? If you don't know that answer, you better check. And while you're at it, check your retirement accounts, your life insurance policy, your company benefit account, your brokerage account. And if you have a joint account with someone, who's going to get it when both of you are gone? You need to know these answers because it doesn't matter what you put in a will or a trust. Whoever you've listed as the beneficiary on all these types of accounts is going to get your money. Go to my bio link for my newsletter, and then your family can send me a big old thank you for protecting all that money for them.