All About Self-Directed IRA Investing Self-directed IRAs are billed as “putting the ‘I’ back in IRA.” They let individuals determine what, when, and where to invest their retirement money. And they are catching on — in no small part thanks to the stock market’s volatility and the real estate market’s recent riches. Investments in other things, most notably real estate, are fully permissible under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. It prohibits retirement plans from investing in just two types of investments — life insurance contracts and collectibles. Everything else is fair game.

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