RMDs can be made in either cash or property, and there might be good reasons to distribute stock or other property.

What appears simple may carry a second-order effect.

Retirement savers entering their later years face an evolving set of rules for Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs).

Strategies for minimizing required minimum distributions may include a combination of withdrawals and conversions to Roth ...

A major change is the reduction of a big penalty. But it's still a big penalty.

Retirees with tax-deferred accounts should know when to take required minimum distributions (RMDs) and how to calculate the ...

Once you take your RMD out of your IRA, you can’t put it back again—the IRA designs these distributions to be taxed. Have a plan for how to use the money.

Qualified charitable distributions are the best way for those 70 1/2 and older to donate. But people often do not maximize ...

Required minimum distributions, or RMDs, are the amounts that must be withdrawn each year from specific retirement plan accounts upon reaching the required minimum distribution age. These mandatory ...

A couple in their early 70s is sitting on traditional IRAs they wish were smaller. Required minimum distributions (RMDs) have ...

Tax-deferred accounts like traditional individual retirement accounts (IRAs) and 401(k) plans let workers delay tax payments on qualified contributions in the present, allowing them to save pre-tax ...