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Personal Finance Decision Guide – Roth IRA vs. Traditional IRA

June 4, 2007

What money decision are you trying to make today? Read on, it may be covered in this second edition of the Personal Finance Decision Guide. This is a compilation of money articles from various sites comparing or explaining two sides of money concepts.

In an interesting turn of events, this is the first time there are multiple articles covering the same topic, Roth IRA vs. Traditional IRA so this is the featured decision today.

Roth IRA vs. Traditional IRA
–Free Money Finance (Additional Comments)
–Mad Money Analyst
–My Retirement Blog

Investing
–Technical vs. Fundamental Analysis

–Net Worth vs. Net Investable Assets

–Discount brokers vs. Full Service Brokers

–Buy and Hold vs. Active Trading

Insurance
–Whole Life vs. Term Life Insurance

–Lump Sum vs. an Annuity

Saving Money
–Costco Versus Sam’s Club

–Being Cheap Versus Frugal

–Cheap vs. Frugal

Real Estate
–30 Year Mortgage vs. 40 Year Mortgage

–Why Building is Better than Buying

–What’s the difference between ROI and CAP Rate?

–Pre-Paying a Mortgage vs. Saving for Retirement

Banking
–Virtual Bank Vs. ING Orange Online Savings Accounts

–Money Market vs. Brokered Money Market

Borrowing
–Home Equity Loan vs. Car Loan

Hopefully you found some useful information today in this edition of the Personal Finance Decision Guide. If you have an article you’d like to share, feel free to submit it for the next edition using this form. Please leave any suggestions for improvments or changes to the guide in the comments. If you don’t want to miss the next edition when it’s published then sign up for daily updates from this site.

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5 Responses to Personal Finance Decision Guide – Roth IRA vs. Traditional IRA

  • DELINOR SMITH
    February 13, 2009 at 11:03 pm

    IS IT MORE FINANCIALLY SMART TO USE YOUR OWN MONEY (FROM A 457) AND TAKE THE TAX HIT OR BORROW THE MONEY FROM A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION TO INVEST (RENTAL PROPERTY)

  • Wolf Stone
    June 4, 2007 at 1:59 pm

    Interesting points of view..from the various bloggers you’ve linked to!! Although i live in Canada and the Roth IRA vs. Tradtional IRA doesnt apply ..we do have something similar called the RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) !!

  • Q at $1 Million to My Name
    June 4, 2007 at 9:24 am

    Roth all the way. Pay tax now, no taxes later when I’m filthy rich and the government is raising taxes to pay for all of their wacky plans.

  • Tricia
    June 4, 2007 at 6:29 am

    Awesome idea! Thanks for including my article about ING and Virtual Bank 🙂

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