Erin Moriarity: My Dad Lost About $1.5 Million on Bad Investments. Here’s How to Avoid His Mistakes

Erin Moriarity, creator of the Erin Talks Money YouTube channel, discusses personal finance and retirement planning for people who were not well served by traditional financial advice models. The episode covers her early financial education, rethinking conventional retirement wisdom, the psychology of moving from saving to spending, long-term-care costs, Social Security funding concerns, and annuities. It also includes lessons from financial mistakes, including her father’s losses on bad investments as referenced in the title.

1. Erin Moriarity runs Erin Talks Money, where she explains personal finance and retirement planning concepts in accessible videos.
2. She discusses providing financial information to people who were not being well served by traditional financial advice models.
3. The episode covers Social Security funding concerns, long-term-care planning, and annuities as people age.
4. She makes the case for the value of working with an advisor later in life, even for do-it-yourself investors.