Sometimes, life goes one way when you planned on it to go another. In the case of retirement planning, let's say you've been saving money in a tax-deferred retirement account (like a traditional ...

A spreadsheet to help visualize the benefits and costs of Roth IRA conversions. The key strategy for Roth IRA conversions is to spread income over a period of years to garner the lowest overall income ...

Sometimes, life goes one way when you planned on it to go another. In the case of retirement planning, let's say you've been ...

Roth conversions are a popular way for people to reduce their tax burden over the long haul, and people often start making those conversions when they are a few years away from retirement. The goal is ...

The Roth IRA is one of the most powerful wealth-building strategies available, and yet also one of the most misunderstood. Should you have a Roth IRA? Should you put money into your regular IRA, your ...

I love helping my clients maximize their tax-free retirement income streams. Converting a traditional IRA account to a Roth IRA is a fabulous part of a proactive tax-planning strategy to reduce the ...

Every week, Allworth Financial’s Steve Hruby, CFP®, and Bob Sponseller, ChFC®, answer your questions. If you, a friend, or someone in your family has a money issue or problem, feel free to send those ...

Editor’s note: This is the final part of a seven-part series. It dives more deeply into the third strategy for defusing a retirement tax bomb, which is Roth conversions. If you missed the introductory ...

Do you have a lot of traffic on your website? It feels good to have a lot of viewers, right? However, this is just the first step. You also need to figure out how to improve your conversions to get ...