Author Archives: Megan Russell

Voting early has the same process as voting in-person.

Unfortunately, neither “yes” nor “no” is a correct answer to this question.

During this season of uncertainty, this 2018 article reminds us that diversification and rebalancing in our non-financial portfolios can help as well.

No matter how small your savings or when you start accumulating them, those small changes have large effects over time.

The best way to find old shareholder materials is to search your own email inbox.

Individuals with more than $5M may be served well from gifting to utilize the higher estate exclusions before they sunset.

You can transfer up or across the family tree. However, if you want to transfer down a family tree, you can run into taxation problems.

Even if you are just a tiny piece of the puzzle, all the pieces are essential.

The phrase “bad poet” reminds me of that day when I was in elementary school. It is a lesson for each of us, regardless of our income level.

This 2013 article explores whether the person who sits idly by while their stocks increase their net worth deserves the money they make.

In these ways, rebalancing can be of great value to a long-term investor’s portfolio.

Those who flat-lined to cash or who waited to invest their cash until the markets looked better missed out on the recovery.

Now non-nuclear family or friends who are more than 10 years younger than the decedent and in good health are never eligible for stretch provisions and must distribute the whole balance over 10 years.

Yes, we are merely human, but our ideas and our analysis are powerful.

With the grandparents as the owner rather than the parent, the student may have a better chance of receiving financial aid.

Unfortunately, the answer is that you cannot. The 529 account owner receives any state tax deductions for contributions make to their account.

We decided to add two new sectors after generating several hundred efficient frontier graphs of various United States classifications, industries, and sectors over a variety of time periods.

Form ADJ of the 760 lines 8a – 8c are where you report miscellaneous deductions.

In this article, I am reviewing the quantitative measurements and performance metrics of Freedom Investing to see how its risk and return compare to the EAFE Index, its benchmark.

You may or may not want to leave anything to your favorite charity. However, if you do, there are often advantages to using a Donor Advised Fund over designating the charity directly.

Oddly enough, what qualifies something as a unique account is both a unique account registration and investment portfolio selection.

This designation gives both Schwab and your financial advisor the permission to contact the named individual if either of us were ever concerned that you or your finances were being taken advantage of.

If a morally questionable idea is a valuable money maker, then your avoidance of that fund will only give more wealth to those whose conscience is clear investing in it.

This is the financial shock of a trip to hospital. It is upsetting, expensive, and unexpected.

Even though a holding has gone down, there can be several advantages to selling it anyway. Here are six reasons you may want to sell for a loss.

In market downturns, often the newest investor reports recovering the fastest due to a simple reporting error.

Hong Kong has always been an anomaly: a tiny, extremely free country with an expiration date in 2047.

After you have opened your account, there are many methods of contributing to or funding your Charles Schwab account. The best and easiest four methodologies are as follows.

This latest notice now gives both seniors and heirs who have not yet been able to put their formerly RMD funds back into their IRAs the chance of redistributing those funds to the IRA that distributed them.

As a result of new fund additions, we added five new country-specific funds to our Schwab Institutional Intelligent Portfolio asset allocations.

There are many possible futures which could produce any number of outcomes that would be normal market volatility.

Once you know how to file it, it is a simple and easy process.

These findings together demonstrate how Economic Freedom seems to have been a valid factor for higher expected returns than investing in the EAFE Index alone.

As we are still in the midst of COVID-19 quarantines, we will have to wait to see what continuing or lifting restrictions actually does to companies, their expected earnings, and their market pricing.

The IRS very clearly says, “Yes, you can set up a SEP for your self-employed business even if you participate in your employer’s retirement plan at a second job.”

The presumption that there is always more fun to be had has a two-fold positive effect on my life.

If you want to open a Scwhab account to be hand-traded by Marotta, then one option for opening that account is to use Schwab.com’s online account open.

As part of the requirements, the SEC wrote passages which must be included verbatim in each relationship summary. Some of that required text are so-called conversation starter questions.

There is an illusion that the executive branch will handle the collection of all our data with respect and care. I hope that current times can shatter that illusion for you.

When I was really young, I did not realize that food had a season. What a privilege of our modern era!

It took me one hour to complete from start to finish. Hopefully, now that I have bumbled my way through it on my own and documented the steps, it takes you less time.

This 2015 article details one of the most brilliant breakthroughs in all of food science and how it relates to almost every aspect of life.

Don’t let stress about tax filing requirements keep you or your child from a powerful opportunity to provide for their future.

Hopefully, this extension helps some take advantage of this welcome relief.

Diversification means always having something to complain about. Recently, it has been energy.

For many whose Energy sector has experienced large losses, lowering your sector allocation might effectively mean holding onto the shares that you currently own without adding more.

Each of us either has a withdrawal rate or a savings rate, as we are each either contributing to or withdrawing from our invested accounts.

You always have until the tax filing deadline to make your IRA contributions regardless of when you file.

Unfortunately, as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act back in December 2017, Congress eliminated the ability to undo Roth conversions, so there isn’t a way to undo a conversion.

In this way, those with inherited IRA distributions they would like to reverse or those with distributions no longer eligible for regular 60-day rollover contributions may be able to still complete either a Roth conversion or IRA redistribution with those assets.