Other IRA Investments

Below are a collection of self directed IRA articles written on various topics and categorized as miscellaneous. Please feel free to browse the articles below and check out other categories. We’re here to answer questions if you’d like to reach us.

Eat at Joe’s IRA’s Bar and Grill

By: Bill Humphrey

Many investors in the US are discovering that their plans for a carefree retirement are in jeopardy due to lack of funds. Creative investors are seeking more profitable solutions to their retirement plan investments. As more and more investors are learning, traditional financial advisors generally direct investors to traditional investments only…

Uncle IRA, the Venture Capitalist

By: Ben Brazda

While the average IRA holder trades public stock and mutual funds, it’s the sophisticated, self-directed investor who also keeps an eye open for growing, private companies. Every public company started out as a private business and almost all used…

Lending to Fund Non-Profit Organizations

By: Catherine Wynne

Ask the members to lend funds from their IRA and other tax-advantaged plans! Self-directed plans may lend funds and can benefit both the organization and the IRA holder. IRA lending using a self-directed IRA administrator allows the individual to choose their own investments, one of which can be a loan to the organization. These loans, for example, could be…

How to Care for a Check Book Control IRA

By: Bill Humphrey

Hundreds of companies and their websites advertise the Checkbook Control IRA by many different names: Checkbook IRA, Checkbook LLC, IRA-LLC. The Checkbook Control IRA is recommended for many different applications, but once the LLC is created, what do you do next?

Beware the “Too Good To Be True” Shortcut

By: John Sheflin

Unemployment is up, business loans are down and retirement funds are shrinking, leading many Americans to search for a solution. One option is commonly promoted as a way to “fund your business with your retirement plan”. Is this the solution? As if to answer that, the IRS recently released a memo titled, “When ‘Too Good to Be True’ Very Well May Be: Funding Business Startups with Plan Assets.”

Green Retirement Investing with a Self-Directed IRA

Retirement investors who want to invest responsibly are no longer limited to specialized mutual funds. Anyone can now invest in a private company which shares their passion, whatever that may be.