I recently had the pleasure to interview Will Sugg, a fellow personal finance blogger that works towards his fortune with Self Directed IRAs. I am no professional in the arena, so he was very willing to answer the few questions I had about them – I hope they can demystify the Self Directed IRA questions [...]
Oh, where to start with this one; it is a fairly dead horse to beat, but I DID recently read it, and it DOES have to do with my blog as I’m posting anything that has to do with money, and it certainly DOES have to do with money ($7 specifically from the discount book [...]
So another reader request came in yesterday asking about expense ratios; it read: Hank, this might be a dumb question, but I’ve got different answers from different people and I thought I’d go to the source! So back to school for, Expense Ratios 101: – I buy into Fund XYZ for $1000 on January 1, [...]
First let me assure you that ALL these companies offering this KNOW how to play the game. They’re not going to lose money on a deal. It’s just like when the casinos offer you a “comp” if you play long enough. They know the odds of you winning aren’t high, but if they dangle the [...]
I got an email from a reader yesterday that asked: “Hello Hank, I’ve been with my company for almost 20 years and I have over $1,000,000 in my 401k. I am 45 years old and I have a house mortgage still of $295,000 for another 13 years paying about $2000 per month. Would it make [...]
So I met with my Edward Jones rep 2 weeks ago and he informed me that my ROTH IRA is being invested 100% in NPFBX. Keep in mind, 9 months ago, my goal was to just get a ROTH IRA started again. Now that I’m a bit futher along in my journey, I figured I’d [...]
I can almost guarantee that every person on the planet over the age of 15 has asked this question before. And there are a lot of answers for it that thousands (if not millions) of people will tell you how to spend your money if you don’t want to search for yourself. My blog is [...]
I got to thinking about this today after reading Hot Air’s post about how they had to pull a lottery game in the UK because the goal of the game was in reference to temperature; more specifically, negative numbers. People were supposed to scratch the ticket and find if they had a lower number than [...]
Why should I choose a ROTH IRA? Why should I choose a Traditional IRA? What’s the difference? I’ve been hit with both questions – The main advantage of a traditional IRA versus a Roth IRA is the tax benefits immediately realized. To receive the maximum tax benefits of a traditional IRA the taxpayer must have [...]
So yesterday I got to thinking about how I would be impacting my retirement account by taking out the $2000.00 for the emergency root canal procedure I bought myself yesterday. How would that money have worked for me over the next 40 years till retirement? Well, if I would have just had that $2000.00 and [...]
