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How I Invest – Accounts

I want to share with you all how I choose to invest. In order to do that, we first need to get back to basics.

Today I want to start with the accounts that I use.

Your investment accounts are basically the buckets in which you hold your investments.

This sounds like it should be simple. You open an investment account in the same way that you open a bank account. You put money into it and then you buy your investments.

It’s not quite that easy, however.

The government gives all sorts of different tax benefits to different people for different things. In order to get those tax benefits, you need to keep your investments in specific types of buckets. This means that you can end up with multiple buckets that you open yourself and multiple buckets that are opened by your employers.

Today I want to run through the accounts that I use and how they could help you. Continue reading “How I Invest – Accounts”

Author MattPosted on October 24, 2017October 23, 2017Categories MoneyTags 401(k), 457(b), Health Savings Account, Investing, IRA, Money, Personal Finance, Saving, Taxes13 Comments on How I Invest – Accounts

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