by Bryan Craig Wisda, CFP® EA | May 20, 2022 | Advanced Planning, Financial Planning, Retirement Planning, Tax Planning
A Roth Conversion is basically taking some of the money in your Traditional IRA portfolio and moving it to a Roth IRA. The advantage to a Roth IRA is its tax status. When you convert money from a Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA you’ll have to pay taxes on the...
by Bryan Craig Wisda, CFP® EA | May 1, 2022 | Advanced Planning, Financial Planning, Retirement Planning
Updates to the SECURE Act have the potential to significantly affect anyone who has an Inherited IRA or Beneficiary IRA. Starting in 2020, those who inherited an IRA from someone other than a spouse, in most situations, have to withdrawal the entire value of the...
by Bryan Craig Wisda, CFP® EA | Apr 11, 2022 | Investment Management
One of the challenges of owning actively managed mutual funds comes when the mutual fund has unexplained poor performance and you resultantly want to sell the fund to replace it. Thus you have to evaluate your actively managed mutual funds versus embedded capital...
by Bryan Craig Wisda, CFP® EA | Mar 28, 2022 | Financial Planning
Medicare Part B premiums increased in 2022 from $148.50 per month to $170.10. Part A covers hospitalization while Part B covers doctor visits, diagnostics, and other services. This was the largest Part B premium increase in the history of Medicare, and for those high...
by Bryan Craig Wisda, CFP® EA | Mar 5, 2022 | Investment Management
With Russia at war, is now the time to buy gold? To learn the answer to this question please download our complimentary paper on this topic. To download click here.