SELFDIRECTED IRAS WHAT'S NEW? KAAREN HALL
Self-Directed IRAs –
What’s New?
By Kaaren Hall,
CEO, uDirect IRA Services
J
ust back from the Fall Conference for the Retirement Industry Trust Association with some news about
SelfDirected IRAs.
More Retirement Savings
For over 40 years you’ve been able to invest your retirement savings outside of the Stock Market into assets like
real estates, notes, trust deeds, precious metals, private stock and more. Updated statistics from the
conference: There is $24.5 Trillion in overall retirement assets. $7.5 Trillion of that is in IRA accounts. In the year
2000 there was $11.6 Trillion in retirement savings overall, so you can see this figure has more than doubled in
the past 15 years.