Amazon, the online retail and delivery services behemoth, is making an interesting offer to current employees: Quit your job to start a delivery business. In return, the company will pay them three months’ worth of salary, plus up to $10,000 to fund business start-up costs. Does this represent an opportunity for Self-Directed IRA investors? Yes, though […]
On the list of life’s stressful events, divorce will usually appear as one of the top two or three. And why wouldn’t it? Divorce will likely mean convoluted finances, altered living arrangements for you and your family, and a host of emotions that you will be dealing with, whether they come from you or a […]
For many years, conventional wisdom in retirement investing has promoted stocks, bonds, and mutual funds as the primary elements of a sound investment philosophy. But the stock market decline in December of 2018 reminded investors that no bull market lasts forever. Stock market volatility scares and intimidates many investors, and they are particularly sensitive toward their […]
There’s a good chance that you have encountered the term “accredited investor” while you were researching an alternative investment recently. Not all that long ago being an accredited investor seemed to be the equivalent of being a member of a secret society. Today, with newly relaxed regulations and an increased interest in alternative investments, accredited […]
There’s a misconception out there: that the IRS is out to get you. It’s not. When you play by the rules, the IRS and Congress have made a lot of concessions for retirement savers. But it’s not only important to know these rules—it’s vital to understand that the IRS will even make resources available to […]
Why would someone looking to build a retirement nest egg care about dividends? The most obvious answer here is that dividends are the purest form of passive income. All you have to do is own a dividend-paying investment and you will watch your account grow bigger. Own enough dividend-paying investments after a certain age and […]
You do not need a Self-Directed IRA to earn profits. In fact, one of Warren Buffett’s first investments, according to Entrepreneur, was not an expertly-placed pick in the stock market. It was a used pinball machine. Buffett and a friend installed the machine in a barbershop and it was popular enough to earn them a […]
When Mitt Romney disclosed that he held potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in retirement accounts thanks to self-directing and choosing wise private investments, it sent shockwaves through many retirement investors. How was it possible to hold that much money within a retirement account when the contribution limits are so low? The answer, of course, […]
There’s an old saying: when it rains, it pours. Usually, that’s supposed to refer to bad news. But what if your goal is to make it rain within a Self-Directed IRA? And what if you had a dedicated strategy for making your Self-Directed IRA funds compound on themselves over time? Then the news might not […]
The Department of Labor’s (DOL) fiduciary rule, initially created under the Obama administration, was scheduled to be phased in from April 10, 2017, to January 1, 2018. As of June 21, 2018, The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals officially vacated the rule, effectively killing it. Now, language from the Department of Labor Secretary, Alexander Acosta, stated […]