http://rawfinanceblog.com/2009/03/16/2009-ira-contribution-limits/ Common sense economic and financial industry analysis for everyone, from banking and investment professionals to individual investors. Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:50:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://rawfinanceblog.com/2009/03/16/2009-ira-contribution-limits/#comment-150 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:06:27 +0000 http://rawfinance.wordpress.com/?p=534#comment-150 While IRA holders must be aware of certain investment prohibitions, such as “collectibles” (U.S. minted gold and silver coins are an exception to the prohibition) and life insurance, the universe of investment options for IRAs is pretty wide open. Further, a self-directed IRA allows the IRA holder much more control of the allocation of assets. It is unfortunate that many custodians limit the offered asset classes in their IRAs or do not offer self-directed IRAs, which goes to show how important it is to find the right custodian for one’s needs.
Thanks for raising this issue. I’ll post an article next examining some key IRA rules.

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rules now allow some metal coins,
houses, but many custodians are
not familiar with rules.

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