If Your Retirement Account Has Tanked, Then You Need to Read This! Why Buy and Hold Has not Worked

Just about every day we hear of people who have planned on retiring using their IRA, 401Ks or other savings to supplement their Social Security benefits. Even one of the commentators on CNBC (The NBC news channel) was reflecting on her own retirement fund and said, “It has gained nothing during the last 10 years!” [...]

Have You Invested Your Money in a Self Directed IRA (individual Retirement Account)

 
I was talking to an old friend the other day, he works at a management company that handles Self Directed IRAs. Anyway we were discussing the sad fact that 96% of Americans allow banks, Insurance companies and stock brokers to rip them off, by putting everyones IRA money into the respective companies own financial instruments, [...]