Buying Commercial Property through your Self-Directed IRA
There are advantages to using your Self-Directed IRA to purchase commercial real estate. First and foremost is tax-deferred growth. If you buy property outside your IRA and later sell it […]
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Best and Worst Markets for Self-Directed Real Estate IRA Investors
If you are looking for a solid place to own some property within a Self-Directed Real Estate IRA, what qualities would you look for? Well, you would want price levels […]
Your Self-Directed SEP IRA
If you are self-employed you have the option of a Self-Directed SEP IRA, which stands for Simplified Employee Pension, for part or all of your retirement plan. In addition, a […]
Diversify into Alternative Asset Classes with a Self-Directed IRA
If you opted out of alternative investments and Self-Directed IRA approaches in favor of just taking long positions in conventional IRA investments, 2018 was not your year. Equities have had […]
Self-Directed Real Estate IRA Corner: How Much Should You Have Saved by Now?
Experienced Self-Directed IRA investors know: You need to monitor your investments, and how they perform over time. This is true with any individual security, and it is true with a […]
6 Tips for Taking Distributions from your Self-Directed IRA
You might believe that finding the best way to accumulate funds for retirement is difficult. Well, guess what? Withdrawing those funds is just as hard–if not harder–if you want to […]
Advantages of Self-Directed IRA Investing
Doing at least part of your long-term investing using a Self-Directed IRA has a number of important advantages: Opportunity for diversification. Most off-the-shelf retirement plans offered by Wall Street investment […]
Self-Directed IRA Investors Benefit as Fed Knocks the Wind out of Stocks
In a widely-anticipated development, the Federal Reserve elected to increase interest rates for the fourth time this year. Alan Greenspan advised investors to head for the proverbial hills, but the […]
With S&P Earnings Yields Low, Now’s the Time to Diversify Using a Self-Directed IRA
It’s up! It’s down! It’s all around! The last couple of weeks on the stock market has been entertaining, if nothing else. But it is easy to maintain a healthy […]
30 New Year’s Resolutions for Self-Directed IRA Owners
As 2018 has come to a close, it is time for Self-Directed IRA investors to lay out a track to run on for 2019 – and ensure everything goes to […]