The other day I was talking to my friend, Lee Hoffman, of Planned Giving Design Center, and said I was about to launch my course called The IRA Checkbook Control Trust: A Step-by-Step Guide. Lee’s site (https://www.pgdc.com/) is a publisher of Planned Giving news and materials, especially...

Which of these reasons causes IRA owners to give up on setting up Checkbook Control most often?

"It takes too much time to set up."

"I have to learn new skills to set it up."

"I don’t know what to invest in."

"It’s too confusing."

"All the sites I visit just have rules and forms, I...

Have you heard people talking about taking control of their own investments with their IRA money?  Would you like to choose your own investments?  Not just stocks and bonds or index funds.  Traditionally, IRAs have been invested in the stock and bond market or money market funds...