Is this sound investment advice?

[AJSimon]

Noted - thanks....

[AJSimon]

Excellent - thanks....

[AJSimon]

How common is it for an index fund to under-perform the market like that? Granted, I need to look at a lot of these return charts to get a sense of what...

[AJSimon]

I'm given to understand that the IRA death benefit is treated, for tax purposes, like regular income - this is from the CFS who handled my father's IRA....

[AJSimon]

Thank you for all this. I'm actually 38, and I'm not sure how much money I will launch it with. I was recently gifted $10k and the death benefit from...

[AJSimon]

I'm planning to open a Roth IRA in the near future. I've never done investing of any kind before, so I'm trying to feel my away around the best strategy...

[AJSimon]

He was taking RMD. My plan, at the moment, is to put the amount of the death benefit toward my own retirement fund - opening a new IRA or investment account...

[AJSimon]

I'm expecting to receive a death benefit from my father's IRA in the coming weeks. I believe it will total in the neighborhood of $17-18k. Does anyone...