[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style="bordered" background_color_class="otw-green" background_pattern="otw-pattern-5"]In a recent survey we found that about 65% of retirement aged Americans do NOT know that it is possible to own physical gold coins and bars through an Individual Retirement Account (IRA). The survey began on Sept. 26th, 2016 and gathered...
Last week, investors were hit with a harsh lesson of why they shouldn’t trust central banks. The Swiss National Bank, usually an example of steady management, shocked the World economy with an overnight reversal of a long standing monetary policy. This move caught nearly everyone...
With the Federal Reserve officially exiting its asset-purchase program a couple months ago, unemployment falling under 6%, and gross domestic product below 4%, economic data signals and recent events seem to be pointing at the likelihood of a strengthening dollar and improving U.S. economy in...
Chinese monetary officials sent shock waves through financial markets today by announcing that the People's Bank of China would be cutting interest rates for the first time since 2012. The world's second largest economy has experienced a serious slowdown in growth over the past year....
The U.S. Dollar has experienced a temporary resurgence in 2014, buoyed by a troubled European Union and longer-than-expected delays in the impact of years of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve. Add in a decline in commodity prices and corresponding drops in gold and silver,...
Placing physical bullion into a tax-advantaged retirement vehicle, like a self-directed gold IRA, can be a powerful option for many retirement savers. After all, one thing we’ve learned over the past 10 years is that the United States government can jeopardize its own currency --...
Planning for retirement is a difficult task. The rules that govern American retirement accounts complicated and ever-changing -- but you also need to figure out how much to save, where to save, whether or not you need professional assistance, how long you need to save...
With November just around the corner, and 2015 on the horizon, now feels like an appropriate time to reflect on just how bizarre the markets have seemed to investors during 2014.Entering Q1, nearly every...
“A lot of people believe that debasing the currency is not a sound economic policy. There is no evidence that a weak currency leads to long-term economic growth.”That quote came from Ronald-Peter...
Marc Faber is one of the more noteworthy ‘gold bugs’, sharing a seat at the front of the gold bus with the likes of Peter Schiff. The Swiss investor correctly predicted the huge spikes in oil prices and emerging markets funds in the 2000s, and...
This is the second post in a two-part series on different categories of tax-advantaged retirement plans: defined contribution and defined benefit. You can read our breakdown of defined contribution plans here.These two types of retirement accounts are primarily differentiated based on the process in which...
Two of the most important lessons taught by economic history are that 1) Money is a useful store of value that makes trade much easier and economic accelerates economic growth, and 2) when people lose faith in the stability and purchasing power of their money due to...
[otw_shortcode_info_box border_style="bordered" background_color_class="otw-green" background_pattern="otw-pattern-5"]We recently conducted a Google Consumer Survey that polled 4,639 respondents aged 55 and older within the United States. The survey collected answers from visitors within the Google Publisher Network between September 2nd and September 15th, 2014.[/otw_shortcode_info_box] The takeaway of this two-week study...
There are two broad categories of tax-advantaged retirement plans: defined contribution and defined benefit. These two types are primarily differentiated based on the process in which they are funded and how participants are paid out benefits.The IRS allows defined contribution plans...
The best way to protect your assets against economic downturns or currency devaluation is to purchase physical bullion investments as a hedge. This is because investment-level bullion, like gold and silver, holds intrinsic value and has a set scarcity. Governments can't print up more gold. Gold...
More and more investors are turning to self-directed IRAs to protect and grow their retirement assets. The past several years have also seen a huge increase in the amount of attention and literature about such types of IRAs. Why is this?It wasn’t so long ago that...
According to the Bloomberg Chart of the Day shown above, which depicts average monthly gold price gains over the past 20 years, historical analysis reveals a pattern that shows the highest seasonal gains happen during the months of September and November.For the past two decades the price...
While the phrase “invest like a multimillionaire” may evoke connotations of get-rich-quick schemes, investing like a multimillionaire and becoming one are usually two distinct processes - the majority of multimillionaires earned their fortunes through business endeavors, before they started picking stocks and bonds to add...
This month ushered in a new era in how the daily spot price of silver is determined. For the previous 117 years, silver prices were set by a bank-led, closed-room process whereby leading financial officials would make educated guesses at changes in the supply and...
As you may know, precious metals IRAs offer investors several primary advantages – it protects their savings from devaluation due to inflation, offers the ongoing opportunity to grow their savings as the precious metals appreciate in value, and it provides an avenue in which to invest in...
