Megan Marotta Russell is the Chief Operating Officer and an Investment Committee member for Marotta Wealth Management.
As Chief Operating Officer, Megan’s work alternates between high-level processes and day-to-day details. She is the primary designer of our internal workflows, oversees the technical side of Marotta Wealth Management as our head programmer, and is a regular contributor to our Marotta On Money articles. Her writings have been featured and quoted in several publications across the country.
She has specialized in almost every service at the firm and is the head of Marotta Wealth Management’s research and development. Right now, she is our lead tax specialist and is responsible for our customized Roth conversion recommendations.
Megan has worked with Marotta Wealth Management most of her life. After several summers of volunteer work, she officially began working for the firm part-time in 2005. After seven years of consulting and design work, she came on staff full time in 2012.
Megan holds a B.A. in Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville with her husband and daughter. When she isn’t working, Megan is a collector of games. Some favorites include Pathfinder, Forbidden Desert, Ghooost!, Tokaido, Disney Villainous, and Tajemnicze Domostwo.
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Credentials
Accredited Portfolio Management Advisor℠
The APMA® program is a graduate-level designation program that provides hands-on practice in analyzing investment policy statements, building portfolios, and making asset allocation decisions including determining sell, hold, and buy decisions within a client’s portfolio.
For more information about this designation, see the College for Financial Planning website.
Specialties
Latest Articles
Individual Foreign Health Care in Review (December 2021)
An initial equal weight strategy of these 26 companies implemented on January 1, 2021 and held without further buys or sells through December 31, 2021 had a +8.64% advantage over the foreign healthcare benchmark.
#BestOf2021 Can Someone Else Gift to My Roth IRA?
Many people think that Roth IRA contributions can only be from earned income. Those people are only half right.
Design Your 2022 Savings Waterfall (Podcast)
In this podcast, I discuss my recent article “Account Funding Priorities for 2022” and describe a savings waterfall for 2022. The idea is when new money flows your way, which one of these buckets is it going to land in?
Recent Best of Articles
How To Use a Marotta Capital Gains Tax Hurdle Report
These complex formulas help decide when highly appreciated investments should be sold and the proceeds put in a different investment philosophy.
Four Simple But Effective Conversion Target Calculations
Doing some conversion is usually much better than doing no conversion at all. We offer these four simple but effective strategies to calculate a good-enough conversion target for this year.