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Gold, Silver, and Other Precious Metals in Your IRA or 401K?

Learn how, why, when to add them to your retirement account

Foreign Currency Trading in Your IRA or 401K?

Can FOREX and changing world economics benefit your retirement account?

Stocks in Your IRA or 401K

Is your retirement 100% dependent upon Wall Street's Retirement Roulette?

Buying Tax Liens/Certificates in Your IRA or 401K?

Learn how safe, stable returns can also offer some windfall profits?

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Posted on 16 May 2012. Tags: 401K, ESA, HSA, IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA, SIMPLE IRA

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Featured Article: Sizing Up a Hard Money Lender

Posted on 16 May 2012.

Leonard Rosen

Whether you intend to borrow from or invest in a firm representing itself as a hard money lender, there are a handful of questions you should ask to help you screen out the best from the rest. In extreme cases, asking these questions may help you avoid a catastrophic loss, either of your investment funds or the property securing your loan. In this article, I offer you some insights on identifying the factors that differentiate a legitimate, ethical and efficient hard money lending organization. Continue Reading

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Words of Wealth

Five Year Rule

Under the five-year rule, the assets of a deceased retirement account owner (who died before the required beginning date for receiving distributions) must be distributed by December 31 of the fifth year since the retirement account owner's death. Alternatively, the beneficiary may distribute the inherited assets over his/her (beneficiary’s) life expectancy.

With respect to Roth IRAs, another five year rule exists: it defines qualified distributions (i.e. Tax free and not subject to 10% penalty) as those distributions after age 59 1/2 or after the Roth IRA has been in existence for five years. Additionally, traditional IRAs converted to Roth IRAs also require a five year period before distributions are considered qualified.