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Self-Directed IRA Investing: Invest to Protect Your Retirement

By IFAZ Blogger
Dec 2, 2008
Self-directed IRA investing is becoming more and more popular now for the 60 million Americans who have funds in retirement account.

Banks are failing, credit is tightening, the housing market is the worst it's been in decades and even Wall Street firms are broke. What does this mean for the average worker with years of their retirement savings tied up in a regular IRA?

Self-Directed IRA Investing: The Perfect Way to Invest Your Retirement Savings

What it means is that retirement accounts, which are traditionally invested in the stock market, are plunging fast. Many accounts have lost as much as half of their value in this economic crisis - with no end in sight.

Self-directed IRA investing is the perfect way to invest - and protect - your retirement savings. Many workers are taking advantage of self-directed IRA investing to investing their savings in more tangible assets like real estate. It just makes sense when you consider what's going on with the stock market, housing market and worldwide credit markets these days.

Self-directed IRA investing permits investors to buy real estate and other alternative assets that traditional retirement accounts disallow. Traditional retirement accounts stick to so-called "traditional" stock market investing, ie, mutual funds, stocks and bonds. But, these are the very things that are losing value into today's economy. And, these types of traditional IRAs don't allow the flexibility to invest things like real estate.

Real estate, however, is a tangible investment that doesn't "disappear." With self-directed IRA investing, you get an investment you can see, touch and feel. It's not paper money, so to speak. Real estate is a sound investment in a recession or an economic boom. It's an investment that stands the test of time. And, now is the time to capitalize on it. For, when good economic times return, your investment will have appreciated all the more. What better way to protect - and grow - your retirement funds?
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