Money Management and Personal Finance | The Dough Roller
That’s right, the words helpful and IRS sometimes go together. The IRS has produced a chart showing whether a rollover between 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), IRA, Roth IRA, SEP IRA and SIMPLE IRA accounts is permitted. Clicking on the chart or here will download a pdf version of the chart. The chart includes hyperlinks to additional [...]
Year end is a perfect time to give your retirement and other investments an annual tune-up. Each year at this time I evaluate my 401(k), rollover IRA and taxable investment accounts to see if I should make any changes to my asset allocation plan for the next year. Generally, I look at five things: (1) [...]
Since publishing The Ultimate Guide to Traditional and Roth 401(k) and IRA Retirement Accounts, I’ve received a number of questions about retirement plans that weren’t covered in the article. I’ve responded to these questions in the comments to the article, but I thought it would be helpful to discuss some of them in a separate [...]
If you have self-employed income in addition to your regular job, can you contribute to a SEP IRA even if you have a 401k at work? This question has hit home for me this year because I’ll have income from this website. While I’ve decided that the income is not enough to warrant opening an [...]
I came across four useful financial calculations that you can perform in your head and thought I’d pass them along. Here they are: What am I giving up in retirement savings when I spend money today? This is an easy one–add a zero to the price tag. Assuming you have 30 years to retirement and [...]
The question of whether to invest in a Roth or traditional has come up a lot lately. Yesterday I wrote about these retirement accounts in the The Ultimate Guide to Traditional and Roth 401(k) and IRA Retirement Accounts. In that article I linked to a Roth 401(k) calculator that can help you determine what’s best [...]
When it comes to boosting your retirement accounts, the IRS has sent us help in the form of tax advantaged accounts like a 401(k) and an IRA. If we don’t take full advantage of these money making tools, we are turning away help when we need it the most. In this article, I will describe [...]
Traditional retirement is so 1990s. Work hard until you’re 65+ and then stop working cold turkey. Why? Where’s the balance in that approach to your working years and your golden years? Why not ease into retirement beginning much sooner than 65? You’ll get to enjoy more free time earlier in life while continuing to generate [...]
Money Magazine this month published a chart that quickly tells you if you’re on track to retire at age 60. If you hope to retire at age 60, your savings should equal this number times your salary: The chart assumes a 35-year retirement at age 60 with 80% of pre-retirement income. It also assumes social [...]