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- From: grady@world.std.com (Dick Grady)
- Subject: Re: 401K--to rollover or not?
- Message-ID: <C05wFz.GH4@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <C04qJy.40H@jti.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:23:58 GMT
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- In article <C04qJy.40H@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
- >Given that my new employer has no retirement plan, I can't roll over my
- >balance at a previous employer's 401K plan into a similar one.
- > [ ... ]
- >If I [ roll it into an IRA and ]
- >kept this money separate from other IRA accounts, could I later roll it
- >(or even some of the other accounts) into a new 401K?
-
- If you take this money out now, and put into a *separate* IRA, you can
- then invest into a new 401K later. If you co-mingle the money with your
- other IRAs, then it loses its 401K identity.
-
- You would not be able to roll other IRAs ( ones which didn't "start life"
- as 401Ks ) into a 401K.
-
- >And is it possible to set up anything
- >remotely resembling a 401K while working for an employer that has
- >none?
-
- No. Employees can not open Keoughs or SEPs.
-
- Find another employer who has a 401K. :-)
-
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- Dick Grady Salem, NH, USA grady@world.std.com
- So many newsgroups, so little time!
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