50-Somethings: Is Your Retirement Saving Behind Schedule?
Life happens. Maybe you had kids. Maybe you got clobbered by the Great Recession. Maybe you got divorced. Maybe it was all three. But your contributions to retirement accounts were […]
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Survey: Most Americans Have No “Bear Market” Retirement Plan In Place
Federal banking regulators routinely force banks to “stress test” their portfolios, modelling what would happen under various troublesome economic scenarios. They do this so that banks have a chance to […]
Self-Directed IRA for Independent Minded Investors
Lots of people want or need a financial advisor to work with them for every financial decision. And that is ok. There is a time and place for that, and […]
Overseas Properties in a Real Estate IRA
Many of our clients are actively looking to diversify their retirement portfolios by using Self-Directed IRAs to invest in overseas assets. Often, this includes investing in foreign property using a […]
Return of Stock Market Volatility Underscores Need For Self-Directed IRAs and Diversification
February 2018 has been a stressful month for stock investors. Volatility is back with a vengeance: The Dow Jones Industrial Average components – what we used to call “blue-chip stocks” […]
Are You Ready for a Self-Directed IRA?
A Self-Directed IRA is a proven way for investors to gain access to alternative asset classes not normally offered by most Wall Street investment companies. Most of them readily offer […]
Here’s Why 2018 Is a Great Year to Start a Self-Directed Roth IRA
Roth IRAs have long been a good deal for Self-Directed IRA investors – and they are a better deal now. The reason: Tax rates are unusually low in 2018. That […]
Study: Fair Sailing Ahead for Real Estate IRAs
Real Estate IRAs have had a very nice run over the past several years. And 2018 looks like another positive year for real estate overall. The Urban Land Institute’s 2018 […]
Private Equity In Your Self-Directed IRA
Own tomorrow’s Dow components today! Or we hope, anyway. But you did not have to invest with Steve Jobs while he was still running Apple out of a garage in […]
Bitcoin in a Self-Directed IRA – Is It Right for You
The rise of cryptocurrencies is getting a lot of press lately, with Bitcoin – the largest of them by market cap – getting the lion’s share of the coverage. Do […]