Tori Dunlap

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5,054 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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Financial Feminist · 298. Ask Tori: Investing and Retirement · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Dear listener, dear reader, I'm doing it.

Okay.

So let's talk about this.

This is a question we get all the time.

Again, should I pay down my mortgage faster or should I invest instead?

The quick and dirty answer is you should invest instead.

I have an entire free investing workshop called Stock Market Secrets that we will link down below.

And this is actually one of the myths I debunk that all of your debt needs to be gone before you start investing.

Now, some of your debt needs to be gone.

High cost debt like credit card debt should be gone before you prioritize investing.

But with something like a mortgage where your interest rate is normally three to four percent, right now it's not great, but it's normally under that seven to eight percent that we could be expecting in the stock market.

It's actually more advantageous to put any additional money beyond your monthly mortgage payment towards your investing.

Why?

Because again, you could be making more money by investing.

But also, let's say hypothetically, you do wait until your mortgage is paid off.

Well, if your mortgage is a 30-year mortgage and let's say you do pay it off early, let's say you even cut it in half, which is an incredible accomplishment, right?

Let's say that you pay off your mortgage in 15 years and then you start investing.

Well, guess what?

You can't get those 15 years back.

And as we know from previous episodes of the show, time is way more important than the amount of money when it comes to investing.

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