You might ask yourself, “With housing prices and interest rates so low, isn’t it a good time to invest my IRA in real estate?” Think twice before you do. There are a lot of disadvantages when purchasing real estate with your IRA funds even if you think property prices have bottomed out and you feel [...]

After recently attending a funeral of a close family friend, I started thinking about end of life planning. Clearly there are steps we should take to lessen, even a little, the hardship facing loved ones at the time of one’s death.

There’s financial advice, and their there is really bad financial advice. These 6 common pieces of advice may be the worst we’ve heard yet. Here’s why…

With the market fluctuations of late, investors are growing increasingly concerned and tired of watching their portfolio holdings lose value by the day. This is causing a lot of buzz in the area of Self‐Directed IRAs.

Women’s needs for retirement are often different than those for men. For one, women live 5 years longer than men and earn significantly less than men over their careers, on average. However, with the right planning, women can achieve a successful retirement.

Making good financial decisions can be difficult, even for very smart people. One reason is that most people make decisions based in large part on their own biases and the emotions they are experiencing at the time rather than analyzing the facts.