Discover the rules, tax implications, and strategies for using an IRA to invest in real estate properties, including homes, commercial spaces, and land.

This retirement account may seem appealing because of the freedom it affords, but it will cause you to bleed precious money ...

A self-directed retirement account could be an IRA, Roth IRA, 401(k), Roth 401(k), Pension Plan, SEP or even an HSA or Coverdell or College IRA. Any of these accounts could be moved from a traditional ...

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. These accounts ...

Asset location—meaning, which account investors use to house their assets—is important to consider alongside asset selection.

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 ...

Self-directed 401(k) account balances rose in the second quarter as market performance improved, according to Charles Schwab’s latest Self-Directed Brokerage Account Indicators Report. The average ...

The average account balance for all plan participants using self-directed brokerage accounts with Schwab ended 2019 with a 19% increase year-over-year and a 6% increase from the third quarter of 2019, ...

The average balance across all participant accounts in the Charles Schwab self-directed brokerage accounts decreased 9.2% from $316,826 the prior quarter, the company said. The third quarter average ...