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Why you should consider alternative assets in your clients' retirement portfolios, and how do you get paid for doing so?, Tom Anderson, TomAndersonBlog.com, 4/25/08
Investors tap retirement savings to make real estate bets, Janet Morrissey, InvestmentNews.com, 3/31/08
Self-directed IRAs offer alternatives to the stock market, Eve Mitchell, Contra Costa Times, 3/28/08
Why Limit Your IRA or Pension Plan to Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds, 3/18/08
Take Charge of your Retirement Account Investments (Interview), 2/25/08
Golden Opportunities In Real Estate For Savvy Investors, 12/14/07
Interview with Tom Anderson: Self-Directed Investing with your IRA, 11/27/07
Why to Choose a Self-Directed IRA
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Self-Directed IRAs: An Introduction
Alternative IRA is Good Deal for Some
Using Their IRAs to Make Home Loans
Diversification through Self-Directed IRAs
The CPA Report, Interview with the AICPA, July 2007 (Video Coming Soon!)
Starting or Funding a Business with a Self-Directed IRA
Checkbook Control for Self-Directed IRAs: What Does It Really Mean and Can Your Client Handle It?
Is Commercial Real Estate Part of Your IRA?
Using Real Estate to Build Your Retirement Portfolio
Don’t overlook alternative assets in retirement planning
Take Charge of Your IRA
A Terrific Opportunity That Might Be Flying Under Your Investement Radar
Raise Money Using A Self-Directed IRA
Why Should You Save More in Retirement Accounts?
Why The Goverment Wants You to Save More For Your Retirement
PENSCO Trust's Advanced Self-Directed IRA Training a Success
Wary of Stocks? Property Is an IRA Option
Using an IRA to Buy Real Estate
Getting (Real) Estate in Your IRA
Outside, Real Estate in an IRA? It's possible if your wealthy clients use an outside custodian. Here's how to make the most of self-directed IRA accounts.
IRA Adventures: You want to invest in a hot new business, but your money is sitting in an IRA. Surprise; You can use it
Self-Directed IRAs: Are They Right For You?
How to Invest Your IRA Funds In Real Estate
Cash Flow Convention - The Best Time In 40 Years To Sell Notes to IRA Holders (PDF)
Cash in On the American Investor's Quest for Alternative Investments (PDF)
Coverdell Education Savings Accounts (PDF)
Don't Overlook Alternative Assets in Retirement Planning (PDF)
How To Invest In Real Estate Using an IRA (PDF)
IRAs: A Little-Known Source of Investor Capital (PDF)
Marketing Self-Directed IRAs to Your Professional Network (PDF)
Need Funds For Your Real Estate Projects? (PDF)
Socially Responsible Investing with Self-Directed IRAs (PDF)
The True Diversity of IRA Investment Options (PDF)
Self-directed IRAs Allow Investors to Dabble in Real Estate


Why you should consider alternative assets in your client' retirement portfolios, and how do you get paid for doing so?
Tom Anderson, TomAndersonBlog.com, 4/25/08
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Investors tap retirement savings to make real estate bets
Janet Morrissey, 3/31/08
Click here to read the article on InvestmentNews.com


Self-directed IRAs offer alternatives to the stock market
Eve Mitchell, Contra Costa Times, 3/28/08
Click here to read the article on ContraCostaTimes.com


Why Limit Your IRA or Pension Plan to Stocks, Bonds and Mutual Funds
PR Web Press Release, 03/18/08
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Take Charge of your Retirement Account Investments Interview
Simply Wealth, Interview by Paula Straub with Tom Anderson, 02/25/08
Click here to listen to the interview on the Simply Wealth website.


Golden Opportunities In Real Estate For Savvy Investors
Producer's Web, Tom Anderson, 12/14/07
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Interview with Tom Anderson: Self-Directed Investing with your IRA
Charrissa Cawley, REIConferences.com, 11/27/07
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Why to Choose a Self-Directed IRA
The Street, Farnoosh Torabi, 10/23/07
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What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Producer's Web, Tom Anderson, 10/15/07
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Self-Directed IRAs: An Introduction
PENSCO Trust Company, 10/15/07
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Alternative IRA is Good Deal for Some
ThirdAge, John P. Napolitano, 9/21/07
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Using Their IRAs to Make Home Loans
The Wall Street Journal Online, Kelly Greene, 9/11/07
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Diversification through Self-Directed IRAs
NuWire Investor, Trista Winnie, 8/20/07
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The CPA Report, Interview with the AICPA, July 2007
Retirement Savings- Increased Opportunities for Self-Directed Investing
Interview With Tom Anderson, 08/20/2007
Video coming soon!


Starting or Funding a Business With a Self-Directed IRA
Tom Anderson, 07/26/2007
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Checkbook Control for Self-Directed IRAs:
What Does It Really Mean and Can Your Client Handle It?

Tom Anderson, 07/25/2007
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Is Commercial Real Estate Part of Your IRA?
New Hampshire Business Review, Dan Scanlon, 06/22/2007
Click here for the article on the New Hampshire Business Review website.
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Using Real Estate to Build Your Retirement Portfolio
MarketWatch, Marla Brill, 05/04/2007
Also featured in Real Estate Journal, 06/06/2007
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Don't Overlook Alternative Assets in Retirement Planning
Investors Alley, Bruce Sankin, 06/04/07
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Take Charge of your IRA
Fortune Small Business Magazine, Jeanne Lee, 05/30/2007
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A Terrific Opportunity That Might Be Flying Under Your Investment Radar
Pivotal Magazine, Tom Anderson, President, CEO PENSCO Trust Company, 05/15/2007
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Raise Money Using A Self-Directed IRA
TheStreet, Asheesh Avanti, 05/21/2007
Originally printed in Entrepeneur Magazine, 05/11/2007
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Why Should You Save More in Retirement Accounts?
Producers Web, Tom Anderson, President, CEO PENSCO Trust Company, 04/12/2007
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Why The Government Wants You to Save More For Your Retirement
Producers Web, Tom Anderson, President, CEO PENSCO Trust Company, 03/06/2007
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The Good and Bad About "Checkbook Control" with a Self-directed IRA
Tom Anderson's Blog, Tom Anderson, President, CEO PENSCO Trust Company,01/30/07
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Wary of Stocks? Property Is an IRA Option
New York Times Online, Vivian Marino, 06/29/2005
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Using an IRA to Buy Real Estate
New York Times Online, Vivian Marino, 04/17/2005
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Getting (Real) Estate in your IRA
CBS Marketwatch.com, Robert Powell, 12/09/2004
Click here for the article on CBS Marketwatch.com. (Search archive)
Well the truth be told, you can invest your IRA money in just about anything you want to provided you can find a custodian willing to handle the assets and provided you can follow some fairly complex tax laws.


Outside, Real Estate in an IRA? It's possible if your wealthy clients use an outside custodian. Here's how to make the most of self-directed IRA accounts.
On Wall Street, Tony Chapelle, 09/2004
Click here for the article on the On Wall Street website. (Search archive)
This article talks to investment professionals about how to set themselves apart and build a booming practice by helping their clients get their IRAs into alternative investments.


IRA Adventures: You want to invest in a hot new business, but your money is sitting in an IRA. Surprise; You can use it
Forbes Magazine, Ashlea Ebeling, 10/04/2004
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Today 97% of Americans' $3 trillion in IRA wealth is held by custodians who allow only conventional investments such as stocks, bonds and CDs. But a handful of specialty IRA custodians and bank trust departments do allow customers to hold alternative investments. This article investigates the pros and cons of alternative IRA investing in depth.


Self-Directed IRAs: Are They Right For You?
Ed Slott's IRA Advisor, Tom Anderson, 03/2004
Click here to visit Ed Slott's website at: www.IRAHelp.com
This article is an excellent primer of SDIRA basics and provides some examples of different kinds of investments as well as important rules to follow. To order the article call 1-800-221-1809


Self-Directed IRAs Allow Investors to Dabble in Real Estate
Boston Business Journal, Tom Anderson, 05/30/2003
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