Avoiding Taxable Transactions: IRA Rollovers
IRAs are tax-smart investments offering tax-deferred and tax-free investment earnings, among other benefits. The tax laws provide these benefits and allow IRA owners great flexibility in selecting investments and moving...
IRS COLA Changes for 2023
Inflation is typically hard on retirement savers. As inflation cumulates year over year, an account balance will be losing purchasing power even if it’s still growing. For example, a shirt...
New Rules for RMDs
If you’re age 72 or older, you must withdraw a certain amount of money each year from your IRAs (excluding Roth IRAs). These “required minimum distributions” (RMDs) are mandated under...
Legislative Impacts on Roth IRA Conversions
Roth conversions have been a hot topic lately. Are they a tool for retirement income planning, or a tax revenue tool for Congress? As it turns out, they're both. Here...
How to Avoid the Early Distribution Tax
Self-directed IRAs are intended to be used as a savings and investment vehicle for retirement, but many of us have good reason to tap into that resource before we retire....
Great Resignation Retirement Mistakes to Avoid
If you are thinking about making a job change, you’re not alone. According to the Willis Towers Watson’s 2022 Global Benefits Attitudes Survey, 44% of employees are currently actively looking...