It’s never too early to start preparing for your retirement. After all, the sooner you begin, the more solid your retirement foundation can become. Many Americans wait too long to begin. Often, this is simply because they don’t know where or how to begin; so they procrastinate. Don’t procrastinate any longer.
Retirement doesn’t have to be complicated, and a firm strategy may help. A good first step is speaking to a professional, one trained in financial issues. Our wealth advisors can help with:
- Retirement
- Investment
- Estate Strategy
- Insurance
- Taxes
- Money
Do you have a retirement plan?
You probably do. In fact, you may even have more than one.1 While retirement plans are commonplace, many plan participants have a hard time answering a common question: who should they designate as the account beneficiary?
Who have you chosen to inherit those funds? Can you imagine what would happen if the money in your retirement plan went to someone from whom you were estranged? Or if your heirs found out that you never named a beneficiary in the first place?
This occurs more often than you might think – and a little attention to detail today may help to prevent surprise or disappointment later.
When was the last time you looked at your beneficiary forms?
Decades may have passed since you opened your retirement plan. Back then, you presumably filled out a form stating who you wanted those assets to go to if you pass away. Even factoring in the hunt for a beneficiary’s Social Security number, it might have taken you all of ten minutes to complete. In that moment, you may have made one of your biggest estate planning decisions. You need to make sure your decision is still the right one.
We can provide you with a complimentary review of your retirement plan beneficiary designations. It is vital to make sure that your retirement plan funds will go to whom you wish in the case of your passing. We provide beneficiary reviews and explain a lot of the “fine print” when it comes to the timeline of the assets distributions. We also let people know about their choices when they inherit retirement plan funds – you have to be very careful when managing these situations because they may potentially yield substantial tax consequences.2
A wise person once said, “Good things come to those who wait.”
While that may be true in most situations, it most certainly is not true when it comes to preparing for your retirement. If you’ve been holding off, now is the perfect time to get your retirement strategy in order. The sooner you plan for it, the more likely you are to enjoy a confident retirement.
What are you waiting for?
Do you worry that you won’t have enough money to retire? If you knew you had a strategy in place, wouldn’t that take the proverbial weight off of
your shoulders?
Make TODAY the day you take your future into your hands. We specialize in helping people plan for their best retirement. We welcome the opportunity to provide a complimentary consultation about your financial situation. You might be surprised at the difference a little careful preparation can make in the long run.
If not today, when?
Please reach out if you have something on your mind. We look forward to speaking with you soon.
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1. Under the SECURE Act, once you reach age 72, you must begin taking required
minimum distributions from your 401(k) or other defined-contribution plans in most
circumstances. Withdrawals from your 401(k) or other defined-contribution plans
taxes as ordinary income and, if taken before age 59½, may be subject to a 10%
federal income tax penalty.
2. Under the SECURE Act, your required minimum distribution (RMD) is required to be
distributed by the end of the 10th calendar year following the year of the Individual
Retirement Account (IRA) owner's death. Penalties may occur for missed RMDs. Any
RMDs due for the original owner must be taken by their deadlines to avoid penalties.
A surviving spouse of the IRA owner, disabled or chronically ill individuals, individuals
who are not more than 10 years younger than the IRA owner, and child of the IRA
owner who has not reached the age of majority may have other minimum distribution
requirements.
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