IRA
How Should You Invest Your Retirement Accounts?
According to a recent article in Market Watch the folks who have buying up stocks faster than anyone else in the last thirty years are those making family incomes of $42,000 a year. Why is that?
What’s changed since 1989? Access did.
Specifically, access to workplace retirement savings plans, like 401(k)s, and personal investment accounts, like IRAs.
Individual retirement plans in the USA hold about $9 Trillion and 401(k)’s hold about $5 Trillion. The entire US stock market has a capitalization of about $30 Trillion. And, since so many of us now have these tax-deferred vehicles, how should you invest your retirement accounts?
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Where Should You Invest Your Tax Refund?
Are you getting money back on your taxes this year? If so, are you taking a trip, going on a shopping spree, or hopefully putting something away for retirement or a rainy day? If you are taking the latter course where should you invest your tax refund? Investing excess cash such as a tax refund should be routine for every investor. This money will stay put until you are no longer working or when you really need it. Here is where you need to apply the principles of value investing. Intrinsic value is the valuation that successful long term investors […]
Roth IRA versus a Traditional IRA
Tax time is coming and this is the time of year when many individuals consider putting money in their IRA. Here we consider the virtues of a Roth IRA versus a traditional IRA. In either case putting money aside for retirement is a good idea. Managing that money while it is in a Roth IRA […]