If you want to use your investments for other goals and access the money sooner, you need to
keep it in a taxable investment account.
Not exact matches
Keep investments that produce fully
taxable income (such as bonds and CDs)
in tax - deferred
accounts.
Because you won't have a steady paycheck, you should probably follow the standard advice and
keep the full six months of living expenses
in conservative
investments held
in a
taxable account.
So
in addition to
keeping any interest income limited to tax advantaged
accounts such as IRAs and 401 (k) s, we also want to
keep investments that we don't plan on holding for a year, or funds that trade frequently (also known as having high turnover) out of
taxable accounts as well.
So if you need to
keep some
investments in taxable accounts, stocks that pay Canadian dividends or no dividends (domestic or foreign) should go there first.
Keep in mind that selling
investments in taxable accounts could trigger
taxable gains, although you may be able to offset that gain with realized losses
in other
investments.
Instead, the investor should maintain an overall allocation of 70/30, but
keep high tax liability
investments in tax - advantaged
accounts and low tax liability
investments in taxable accounts.
You can do this yourself
in any
taxable investment account, but there is always the risk of losing money so always
keep that
in mind.
However, if you have different
investments in a 401K, IRA, and a
taxable brokerage
account, for example, you must
keep track of your overall asset mix.
Penney uses an active trading strategy
in his
taxable account, so he likes to
keep his TFSA
investments conservative.