If you’re looking to use your retirement account to get in on the alternative investments boom, you’ll need to open a special kind of account known as a self-directed IRA, or SDIRA. A self-directed ...

The SEC, Finra and NASAA issue identical alerts telling retirement savers they're on their own if they open accounts that give them complete autonomy on the investment lineup. By Mark Schoeff Jr. All ...

A self-directed individual retirement account (SDIRA) is a type of retirement account that allows you to invest in a wider range of assets compared to a conventional IRA, where the account custodian ...

While a self-directed IRA has the capacity to house diverse alternative investments such as real estate, cryptocurrency, gold, and private equity; however, it also comes with potential pitfalls from a ...

A gold IRA is a self-directed retirement account that allows investors to hold physical gold and other precious metals. These accounts are often used to diversify a portfolio or as a hedge against ...

As we begin 2025, it’s an ideal time to revisit your tax and retirement planning strategies. One way to start the year on a positive note is by setting yourself up today to benefit from the tax breaks ...

There’s a different type of IRA that most investors don’t even know about called the self-directed IRA. Although a self-directed IRA shares many of the same overall characteristics of a traditional ...