Medicare Annual Checklist: 7 Smart Things to Review Every Year

Medicare Annual Checklist: 7 Smart Things to Review Every Year

Even if you feel confident in your Medicare coverage, it’s smart to review your plan at least once a year. Costs change. Networks change. Prescription formularies change. And sometimes your own health needs change — which can make a plan that worked last year less...
Personalized Retirement Strategy: A Plan Built Around You

Personalized Retirement Strategy: A Plan Built Around You

Retirement isn’t one-size-fits-all. Two people can retire the same year with the same savings and still need completely different strategies—because income needs, taxes, risk tolerance, health care costs, and family priorities are never identical. A personalized...

Real Life Scenario: Minor as EDB Beneficiary

  By Andy Ives, CFP®, AIF® IRA Analyst A member of Ed Slott’s Elite Advisor Group℠ emailed us recently with a question about a minor child as beneficiary of her father’s IRA. The question was brief, and I think the expectation was that our reply would be of...

How In-Plan Roth Conversions Work

  By Ian Berger, JD IRA Analyst In the January 5 edition of the Slott Report, we mentioned that the federal Thrift Savings Plan (for government workers and the military) started offering in-plan Roth conversions on January 28. This article will provide more...