It’s A Date! Managing Your Self-Directed IRA in 2020
Each year seems to fly by faster than the year before. Important dates and deadlines can swoosh past with little warning. To help you manage your self-directed IRA in 2020,...
RMD Strategies
Beginning at age 72 (or 70½ if you turned 70½ on or before December 31, 20191) IRA owners are required to take annual withdrawals from their IRAs– whether they need...
Why Investing in Alternative Assets Makes Sense in a Self-Directed IRA
The bull market for stocks is now 10 years old, having bottomed out in early March of 2009 in the wake of the financial crisis. While the direction of the...
Rolling Over Retirement Savings
If you’ve recently changed jobs or retired and left behind retirement savings in your former employer’s retirement plan, you’re eligible to move those assets out of your former employer’s plan...
Inherited an IRA? Understand Your Options
Because IRA owners receive tax benefits for saving in an IRA while they’re alive, the IRA tax laws require that IRA savings must be distributed after the IRA owner’s death....
Can the IRS take my IRA?
Monarchies and governments have been collecting taxes since Pharaohs ruled ancient Egypt. The methods for collecting tax may have changed through the years, but a state or federal taxing agency...
