Can you amass $1 million in retirement savings with just an IRA?You may be skeptical, but the answer is yes
A new study by the Investment Company Institute shows U.S.households’ missed opportunity in maximizing IRA contributions, according to IRA expert Ed Slott, an area where advisors can provide “significant value.”
Two books are intended to help people who are worried about their finances in the midst of this painful pandemic.One suggests ways of improving your situation right now
KING OF PRUSSIA, PA – January 13, 2021 – George Nichols III, President and CEO at The American College of Financial Services, announced today that Ed Slott, CPA, founder of irahelp.com, has been named Professor of Practice and will be joining The College faculty. In the position, Slott, America’s IRA Expert, will contribute to the Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®) program and support The College’s current faculty focused on retirement distribution planning.
Economic stimulus legislation enacted in 2020 offers a new opportunity for penalty-free IRA withdrawals—but taking advantage could be costly. And a 2019 law substantially altered IRA-withdrawal rules—but not for everyone, which seems certain to cause confusion.
The Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department issued new guidance Wednesday ending the prohibition on “double dipping” when it comes to expenses paid with funds from Paycheck Protection Program loans.
For decades there’s been a festering retirement crisis in America.
Congress has repeatedly tried to resolve the retirement crisis via stop-gap, incremental efforts.It has created new retirement accounts, like Roth IRAs to benefit lower income workers, as well as tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs) to help pay healthcare costs.
What was YOUR biggest lesson from 2020, besides avoid pandemics?Today we’ll share our top 5 (plus an “honorable mention”) events from maybe the weirdest year in recent memory.
Take your retirement account and divide it by half.This is the real amount that you have saved for retirement
With little more than a week left to take tax-friendly withdrawals from individual retirement accounts and 401(k)s under the Cares Act, people stung financially or physically by Covid-19 are making last-minute decisions while wading through a thicket of rules that could have an impact on future taxes.
