How to Get Your Tax-Exempt TSP Money into a Roth IRA
Tax-exempt retirement money is great, but Roth IRA money is better. Here's how to turn the first into the second.
Tax-exempt retirement money is great, but Roth IRA money is better. Here's how to turn the first into the second.
The posts on this website about cash value insurance continue to attract comments (mostly from those who sell it) like a knight in shining armor on a summit in a thunderstorm attracts lightning. Mont...
[Editor's Note: This is a guest post from Matthew Kaiser, JD, an attorney and a blogger. He is a founding partner of a Washington, DC law firm and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Universit...
I wrote about some things to think about when deciding whether or not to pay off your mortgage early a few months ago. My wife and I had a discussion about paying off our mortgage the other day (whic...
In early 2012, Charles Schwab came out with a 401K where the fund line-up was composed entirely of low-cost index funds such as Schwab's own Total Stock Market Index Fund and the Vanguard Small Cap Va...
John T. Reed writes self-published real estate books. You should read this one before getting in to real estate investing.
I've been getting a lot of questions lately about the passive mutual funds available through an advisor from Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), especially in comparison to the index funds available thro...
[My monthly column at Physician Money Digest discusses the recent changes to the Utah Educational Savings Plan. I admit I'm a little biased, but I thought it was the best plan in the country BEFORE t...
Depreciation allows you to defer taxes for decades, or maybe all together.
It's straightforward to get out of an investment in stocks but not so easy or straightforward when it comes to real estate. If you own real estate and REALLY need to get out, here are 7 ways to make it happen.
Variable universal life insurance is rarely a good idea. In this post I explore what it would take for it to be a good idea for you.
The LEAP system advocates using whole life insurance to solve all of life's financial ills. It's more of a method to sell insurance than a financial system.
No reason to only save $17.5K toward retirement just because that's the limit on your 401(k). Try these other options.
For most of us, when we buy our first house, having a mortgage or not isn't really a decision we have to make. Few Americans, even high-income professionals, can afford to pay cash for a house. In f...
If you're planning on renting out your house after you move out, it would behoove you to figure out if it is a good investment prior to moving in.