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Choosing the right company to administer your self-directed retirement account is an important part of the self-directed IRA process. You want an experienced team that understands alternative assets, provides responsive service, and makes account administration and transaction processing as straightforward as possible.

Mountain West IRA has specialized in self-directed retirement account administration and recordkeeping since 2006. We work with clients holding a wide range of allowable alternative assets, including real estate, promissory notes, private entities, precious metals, and more.

With Mountain West IRA, you remain in control of your account and the assets you choose. Our role is to provide the administrative and recordkeeping services needed to establish your account, process transactions at your direction, maintain account records, and complete required reporting.

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What You Can Expect From Mountain West IRA

COWPITAL GAIN AND BOVIDENDS™:
An example of Holding What You Know.

One of the unique features of a self-directed IRA is the ability to hold certain alternative assets that may not be available through traditional IRA providers. For one Mountain West IRA client, that meant something very familiar: cattle.

Our fictionalized account owner, Ira N. Vestor, had spent much of his life around farming and understood the livestock business. He chose to use his self-directed IRA to purchase Black Angus cattle and selected an unrelated third-party rancher to care for and manage them.

At Ira’s direction, Mountain West IRA processed the purchase using funds from his self-directed IRA. The cattle became assets of the IRA, while the third-party rancher handled their care and management.

As the cattle were bred and the offspring later sold at auction, proceeds from the sales were returned directly to the self-directed IRA. Expenses associated with the IRA-owned livestock were also paid from the IRA.

It’s an unusual example, but a great illustration of just how broad the world of allowable alternative assets can be in a self-directed IRA.

Mountain West IRA provides administrative and recordkeeping services and processes transactions at the direction of the account owner. Account owners are responsible for selecting their assets and service providers and conducting their own due diligence.