Investing Rule #8: Minimize taxes. (How to use IRAs, Roth IRAs, 401(k)s, and more)

http://www.financinglife.org Take full advantage of tax-advantaged accounts, then hold your bonds in your tax-deferred retirement account. This is part of ten short videos series that summarizes the common sense investment advice from John Bogle, which his followers endearingly call the Boglehead Investment Philosophy. It describes the best ways to invest money, and the best place to invest money. You'll learn how to choose mutual funds, why index funds are smart investments, and how to invest in bonds which should be a part of everyone's asset allocation.

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1. Gold's Special Risks All investments come with risks and rewards, gold IRAs included. “In many ways, gold IRAs have the same risks that any investment has,” says Moy. “The price of gold can go up or down and have volatility. No one can accurately predict its future.” But despite the risk, Moy says there is a reason to invest some of your retirement funds in gold. “Gold has a 5,000-year history of being a store of value. Stocks can go to zero as we’ve seen with Lehman Brothers, bonds can default like in Argentina or get big haircuts like in Greece. The value of the dollar has steadily gone down. But gold will never be worth zero,” says Moy. If the price of gold does dip, Moy says that likely means your paper assets will be doing well. So if your portfolio is balanced with both gold and paper-based funds, a loss on the gold side will be balanced by the gain experienced by other IRAs and investments. “Many of these risks exist for traditional IRAs, too. And traditional IRAs have risks that gold IRAs do not have,” he adds. Read more: http://GoldAndSilverForLife.com/partner?p=romeoicq&w=webinar
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