Investing Your IRA

This article is by Jim Coleman who has been in the financial services industry for over 20 years. Coleman specializes in providing comprehensive financial planning, asset management and estate planning services.   This isn’t the first time the country’s faced economic uncertainty, but this is a once-in-a-generation confluence of ...

Debit cards are straightforward. You use them for purchases and money is deducted from your bank account. But when the debited account is your 401(k) retirement plan, critics angrily line up to take a swipe at that piece of plastic.It’s not hard to see why. The 401(k) debit card lets you borrow from retirement savings and pay yourself back ...

Last year, Congress authorized a new twist to the standard 401(k) plan that most employers offer. The new option, called a Roth 401(k) is just what it sounds like, a blend of the standard 401(k) and a Roth IRA.So what's the difference?As opposed to the standard 401(k) plan, where the initial contributions are not taxed, but your future ...

The holidays are just over and you're starting to write those checks for the bills. But when you're paying those bills, don't forget that you need to take care of the person writing the checks as well, namely you! Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, recently spoke of the need for all Americans to save more today in order to prevent ...

We get a weekly e-newsletter from the Motley Fool.  For those of you not familiar, this is an organization who advises people on stock and bond investing.   In the last newsletter, they had a question from a couple who want to retire in 10 years - before their retirement plans would begin to pay off.  Most of their assets are in ...

We have been thinking about this website for months.  After finding out about the small number of IRA and 401(k) owners who invest in real estate, we realized that a website that explained the process in "user" terms was needed.  Hopefully, we are on the way to meeting that need. We have tried to come up with content that will ...