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Ask a Fool: Stocks or Mutual Funds in My Roth?

By Robert Brokamp, CFP(R) - Apr 18, 2013 at 4:46PM

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What should you have in your Roth IRA?

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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