User:Fyre4ce/Prioritizing investments

🇺🇸 Investors who are able to place their investments in several different kinds of accounts (such as taxable accounts, 401(k), or an IRA) need to decide which ones to prioritize.

Investing in a prioritized order will maximize the tax efficiency of a portfolio (pay the minimum amount of taxes).



Funding priority
Funding priorities are mostly in order of decreasing expected after-tax rate of return (what's left after taxes are taken out), though exceptions exist.

Health savings accounts: Use of an HSA requires participation in an IRS qualified high deductible health plan (HDHP) at work. Look at your particular health care needs to decide if you may be better off with a traditional health care plan or an HDHP plus HSA. If the latter, then using the HSA as an investment account can be advantageous.