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  • Mr. Mom
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    Hi Sean,
    In an email from yesterday, you mentioned that IRA and 401K funds should be in cash to protect them from the market correction. What If IRA and 401K funds were already invested in LI picks with scheduled purchases at averaging-down points. I understand not being in indexed funds. However, what about the LI picks?

    Sean Hyman
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    When meaning “should be in cash”..is…as opposed to being in the major indexes, mutual funds/ETFs tied to them or influenced by them, etc. Yes, we’re still very comfortable with LI companies and the LI averaging down points. We placed some averagings at very wide points just to take advantage of huge sell-offs in order to get pricing that we’d otherwise never likely get. So, it’s how we make market downtrends our friend. If we didn’t have the downtrend, we’d never been able to get down to some of these averaging down zones. So, we’re allocating just like Buffett would do.

    Jerry Beers
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    A 401k and IRA are very different in the level of control you have over them. An IRA allows you to pick the individual stocks in the portfolio, but a 401k usually only has a small number of funds you can invest in.

    Sean Hyman
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    Correct…and depend upon who you hold your IRA with, can also limit your stock/ETF choices, which is why I only recommend Ameritrade or Schwab. Agreed.

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