Self-Directed IRA Investing

I will be participating in an interview conducted by Jordan Goodman, on his nationally syndicated radio show on VoiceAmerica called “The Money Answer Show”, this Monday at noon PST.  We will be discussing successful IRA and 401(k) investment scenarios and examples, including those in secured notes, foreclosures, business startups and more.  There is no cost [...]

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Want the Government to take control of your retirement account?  If so, you’ll be happy to hear that there are plans for something called “Guaranteed Retirement Accounts (GRAs)” which would give workers a simple way to save in a manner “free of inflation and market risk and under the direct control of the Federal bureaucracy”. [...]

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Fourth in a series of articles addressing this year’s Roth IRA conversion opportunity, this article discusses the types of retirement plans that can be converted and those who are eligible to convert and those not.  The article and links to the first three articles can be found here.
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According to Morningstar Advisor, more financial advisors (58% of investment advisers they polled) indicated that alternative assets will “become as important or more important than traditional investments in the next five years.”  Additionally, baby boomer investors are scrambling to make up for retirement funds lost in traditional markets, and are demanding new solutions from their [...]

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This is part three of my blogging on whether or not you should consider converting to a Roth IRA.  In this part, I discuss the primary planning considerations and I provide an illustrative example of the advantage of converting.  To read the blog, click here.
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