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How Should You Invest Your Retirement Accounts?
According to a recent article in Market Watch the folks who have buying up stocks faster than anyone else in the last thirty years are those making family incomes of $42,000 a year. Why is that?
What’s changed since 1989? Access did.
Specifically, access to workplace retirement savings plans, like 401(k)s, and personal investment accounts, like IRAs.
Individual retirement plans in the USA hold about $9 Trillion and 401(k)’s hold about $5 Trillion. The entire US stock market has a capitalization of about $30 Trillion. And, since so many of us now have these tax-deferred vehicles, how should you invest your retirement accounts?
Long Term and Smart Investing for Retirement
Invest for the Long Term
The key to investing your 401(k) or IRA is to remember that the money will be for retirement. By waiting until retirement to take any money out of these vehicles, you will likely pay less in taxes because your income will be less than during your working years. And, of course, any capital gains will be long term because many of your investments will be ones that you have held for years.