Benjamin Felix
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5,821 appearances
21 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Benjamin Felix’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's good.
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This one's one of my favorites, I think, on this topic, because I remember when I was early in my financial planning career and I would spend a lot of time talking to young couples.
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This is always one of the first questions I would get asked is how should we structure our finances?
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Should we have joint accounts?
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Should we combine our finances?
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Should we have separate finances?
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And it seems like this pretty innocuous financial decision, but it can actually have a huge impact on your financial life.
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And there's tons of potential answers.
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I mean, I've seen every possible combination of bank accounts that you can think of for a couple.
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But what tends to work best, the evidence is pretty strong, which is that couples should manage their finances well.
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together.
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Some of the research does suggest that means joint accounts, but some of it suggests it doesn't necessarily have to be.
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But the main idea is that combining finances has some pretty clear benefits.
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There's one 2022 meta analysis across six studies and more than 38,000 participants that finds that couples who fully pooled their finances reported greater relationship satisfaction and were less likely to break up.
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which held cross-culturally, which is interesting.
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The 2023 study in the Journal of Consumer Research found that joint accounts promoted communal norms, shared goals, and better feelings about managing money as a team, which are all linked to greater relationship and life satisfaction.
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Now, interestingly, this is the part that I mentioned that the benefits of combined finances may not even have to come as a consequence of actually combining finances like using a joint account.
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Simply thinking about your finances as combined can produce positive results.
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So the 2025 paper.
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Talk About Shared Money, which is by Johanna Pietz, who was actually a guest on this podcast many years ago.
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