If you have a Roth IRA, understanding the Roth IRA 5-year rule is critical to avoiding taxes and penalties when you withdraw ...

A 62-year-old with $1.5 million in a traditional IRA may be wise to consider converting $150,000 per year to a Roth IRA to avoid required minimum distributions (RMDs). The annual withdrawals from ...

Called “Rethinking Roth Conversions in 2025: Navigating New Tax Laws and Opportunities," and sponsored by Leimberg Information Services, the webinar delved into how the bill President Trump signed ...

The signature Republican policy law, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, will have a big effect on retirement planning.

Defined contribution plan advisers and sponsors need effective teamwork as the Roth compliance deadline grows closer.

When it comes to Roth conversions, traditional advice is to convert traditional IRAs to a Roth IRA over a period of years to stay within current tax brackets. The theory is that doing so will reduce ...

It’s such a common occurrence that financial advisers consider November and December — the last months in which most tax actions will count for the current tax year — to be “Roth Conversion Season.” ...

The wisdom of undertaking Roth conversions is highly dependent on the particular household circumstances. Roth conversions do not avoid taxes, they accelerate taxes. Conversions pay off when the tax ...

Retirement blogger Fritz Gilbert is trying to reduce his future tax burden, but it's surprisingly harder than he thought. A previous version of this story included the wrong figure for the top of the ...

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