IRAs

With the burden on participants to figure it all out, it's no surprise that more often than not, they just give up, Alexis Leondis writes.

While after-tax funds in employer-sponsored plans are tracked by plan administrators, clients are on their own with traditional IRAs, Jeffrey Levine writes.

Pulling the costs directly out of clients’ IRAs can blunt the sting, but it shrinks the pot of tax-deferred retirement assets.

Heirs of IRAs and 401(k)s won't need to take annual distributions before cashing out within a decade of receiving the plans, the agency says.

Collecting too soon means lifelong, permanent cuts in monthly payments to you, your spouse and any dependents, says New School professor Teresa Ghilarducci.

Guidance from the IRS can be confusing, explains Bloomberg’s Alexis Leondis.

All trusts named as beneficiaries before the SECURE Act may need to be updated, says one analyst.

Your clients may have heard conflicting advice — they must change their IRA beneficiaries, spend down their IRA as soon as possible, dismantle their trust, or immediately convert their traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, Sophia Duffy writes.

The simplest method involves having one traditional IRA and one Roth IRA, making one annual non-deductible contribution to the traditional IRA, and converting it before any gains or interest accrues.

After a waiver, required minimum distributions from certain retirement accounts — including traditional IRAs and 401(k)s —return for 2021.