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Liquidretro t1_jeg8a7x wrote

Reply to comment by DMball in Vanguard Traditional IRA - Interest on Money Market fund? by DMball

In your OP you never mentioned you were doing a backdoor Roth IRA. You should edit your OP. Even then I don't understand why you are keeping it in essentially cash before doing the conversion. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backdoor-roth-ira.asp

As mentioned above the interest goes to shares not dollars.

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DMball OP t1_jeg8zqe wrote

My apologies, although not sure why it matters.

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I'd prefer to keep it in cash as I contribute and build up to the max and then rollover all at once. This prevents me from losing money in investments (and having to sell to rollover) if the market goes down. Essentially this is short term savings so ideally i'd love to reap the high yield of the money market fund before rollover and investing in ETFs for long term savings.

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