In the following video, The Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement senior advisor Robert Brokamp takes a question from a Fool reader, who asks, "When selecting different options for growth, is it better to put individual stocks in my Roth IRA, or should I put mutual funds in that account and manage my individual stocks outside of it?"
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Ask a Fool: Stocks or Mutual Funds in My Roth?
By Robert Brokamp
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Apr 18, 2013 at 4:46PM
What should you have in your Roth IRA?
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