http://www.moneycrashers.com/401k-vs-roth-iras/ Personal Finance Blog, Your Guide to Financial Fitness Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.moneycrashers.com/401k-vs-roth-iras/#comment-262 Organizing Your Finances Part 1: Getting Your Bank Accounts In Order at Money Crashers Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:50:32 +0000 http://moneycrashers.com/?p=28#comment-262 [...] This is money that you are not going to touch for AT LEAST five years.  Preferably, this is money that you are going to forget about and use for retirement or a financial goal ten years down the road.  My recommendation is to stick to one account when you first start investing for the long-term.  Check out my article on 401(k)’s and IRA’s.  This should help you figure out the difference between the two if they confuse you.  Once you start making more money, you can always open up a couple of mutual funds with good ten year track records for rate of return.  Also, real estate is a great long-term investment, but I never suggest investing real estate unless you can buy it with cash.  [...] [...] This is money that you are not going to touch for AT LEAST five years.  Preferably, this is money that you are going to forget about and use for retirement or a financial goal ten years down the road.  My recommendation is to stick to one account when you first start investing for the long-term.  Check out my article on 401(k)’s and IRA’s.  This should help you figure out the difference between the two if they confuse you.  Once you start making more money, you can always open up a couple of mutual funds with good ten year track records for rate of return.  Also, real estate is a great long-term investment, but I never suggest investing real estate unless you can buy it with cash.  [...]

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