Life Transitions in Pre-Retirement By Corey Keltner, Practice Development Specialist Let’s discuss how you can help married couples through different life transitions, starting in pre-retirement, with a focus on the Roth conversion as a way to strategically pay taxes now and avoid them later. Keep in mind that Roth distributions* avoid Federal taxes and are not included in the Social …
Social Security and the Big Financial Planning Picture
Social Security and the Big Financial Planning Picture By Corey Keltner, Practice Development Specialist The first Social Security tip I want to discuss relates to the bigger financial planning picture. It’s easy for clients to think that Social Security is just a switch that can be flipped on when they are ready to retire, but we really need to convince …
DOL Digest January 3, 2017
In the Dec. 5 DOL Digest article What’s Due When, we covered how the transaction disclosure and Best Interest Contract (BIC) language will be delivered to existing retirement accounts at two times through negative consent mailings: before the April 10 applicability date (transitional transaction disclosure) and before the Jan. 1, 2018, final implementation date (permanent transaction disclosure and BIC). One …