What Is a Self-Directed Retirement Account?

Understanding the features of self-directed retirement accounts, as opposed to traditional retirement accounts, is key to understanding the unique rules that govern them. This session explains the differences between retirement accounts with custodians at traditional financial institutions that offer publicly traded securities for investment, and custodians that allow retirement account owners to choose private investments, like real estate, promissory notes, commodities, tax titles, private businesses and the like. 

Tired of watching your retirement investments dwindle with market fluctuations? Thinking about establishing a self-directed retirement account? 

SDRATech takes a detailed look at self-directed retirement accounts. Sessions cover the basics to the complex issues that come up when you try to follow the rules, but the rules are vague and often confusing. Through a conversational teaching style, and sometimes with guest interviews, attorney Frank L. Bridges explains the legal and practical ins and outs of owning and investing self-directed retirement accounts.