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Suze Orman

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Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

Now, you're not going to be able to do any tax loss harvesting because everybody, tax loss harvesting is when you take your losses now and are able to offset them for your taxes.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

So everybody, don't ever make the mistake that the money that you have in a retirement account is subject to capital gains or whatever when you sell within there or losses.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

It doesn't work that way.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

However, the truth of the matter, my dear Lauren,

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

When the money in a SEP IRA is down and you want to get it into a Roth, now is when you want to do it.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

Because since it's down and you do convert it, you're not going to owe as much on taxes.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

But it's not known as tax loss harvesting.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

Here's the problem.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

Even though now legally you can have a SEP Roth IRA, okay?

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

Good luck finding one.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

None of the major brokerage firms allow them.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

I can't find any of them.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

So here's what you would do.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

Who cares if it's another SEP?

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

Just take your SEP IRA and convert it to a Roth IRA knowing you are going to pay taxes on whatever amount you convert.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

And now it's all in a Roth IRA.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

And you can keep your SEP IRA, funding it for as much as you can every year, and then just convert it to a Roth

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

IRA every single year.

Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
Is It Better To Own Actual Gold In My IRA Or In An ETF?

And that's how I would do it if I were you.