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A Self-Directed IRA, also referred to as SDIRA, is an individual retirement plan that gives you more control and diversification over your retirement savings and investments. Unlike traditional IRAs held in brokerage firms, banks, or other financial institutions, with SDIRA, you are not limited to bonds, stocks, or mutual funds. A real Self-Directed IRA provides you with an option to choose alternative investment options such as limited partnerships, real estate, gold, and LLCs. This way, you have the power to determine the path to take when you retire.

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As business owners continue to seek more flexibility in their work, serviced offices and co-working spaces are becoming a more popular option. Many people are choosing to forgo the traditional 9-5 workday in exchange for starting their own business or working as a private contractor. The flexibility that comes with working for yourself is attractive, but there are also some challenges involved with it.

When you work for a company, you have an office or workplace to go to each day. When you work for yourself, you’ll need to find somewhere to work from and cover the costs of it...

Last year, the social networking site offered to cover $650 million in total damages to settle a suit filed against it by a privacy and security advocacy group over alleged illegal harvesting of biometric information by a photo-tags tool available on its social network. While most privacy advocates agree that the use of such a tool is not without good intentions, they argue that the resulting mass data capture was too large to be limited to an individual user's profile photo. This is the core of the Instagram face lawsuit.

The social networking site Instagram faces lawsuit over-...

Small businesses and the tourism sector across Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay are among those who can benefit from the Growth Support Kickstart Grant Scheme offering grants of up to £3,000.

Application forms for the grant are available on the Growth Support Kickstart Grant website from noon on Tuesday 1 September.

It follows the recent government announcement of a £10 million national investment to kickstart the tourism economy and a £20 million national investment to support small business to get going again and recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

The...