Roth IRAs can be great savings vehicles for doctors. They allow your money to be contributed after taxes, grow tax-deferred, and be withdrawn tax-free when used correctly.
What Doctors Need to Know about Optimizing FDIC Insurance Limits
After the recent collapse of the 16th largest bank in the United States, called Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), more and more doctors have been talking about FDIC limits.
As a reminder, FDIC limits are the protections provided to your bank accounts sponsored by the United States government through the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Examples being your checking accounts, savings accounts, and CDs held at a banks protected under FDIC insurance.
In the event of an FDIC bank failure, the FDIC reimburses depositors of that bank up to certain thresholds.
SECURE Act 2.0
Hope you’re all having a great holiday season. Towards the end of December, Congress passed a large omnibus bill. Included within the bill are some minor changes to the retirement landscape.
Here is a quick summary to what’s being called the SECURE Act 2.0. The first SECURE Act changed some retirement benefits back in December 2019.
Key Questions for the Long-Term Investor
The Randomness of Global Equity Returns
Daunted by the prospects of sorting it out, some investors look to the place they know best—their home market. There can be good reasons, such as tax benefits, for prioritizing an investment close to home, but too much home bias could mean underweighting or missing out on part of the investment universe.
2018 Market Review
MD Financial Market Update
New Attendings: Should You Rent or Buy a Home?
The Impact of Inflation
Doctors, Bitcoins and Cryptocurrencies
To Roth or Not to Roth
2nd Quarter 2018: Benchmark Performance
1st Quarter 2018: Benchmark Performance
Despite all of the noise in the media, the markets have only experienced small overall negative returns this year. As of today, most of our long-term, diversified portfolios are only down about -1.0% since the beginning of the year. This is common for short-term market reports. We expect to continue to see choppy markets throughout the rest of the year.
How Smart Tax Strategies Can Save You Money, Now, and in the Future
When I first started financial planning, we all had one basic assumption - push taxes into the future. The general thought was our clients would be in a much lower tax bracket for taking distributions from their retirement plans. About 13 years ago, I had an "aha moment". What if that assumption was false?
Retirement Planning
All of doctors dream of the day they will be financially independent—the day where practicing medicine is optional, not required. To plan for this day, we do extensive retirement planning for all of our clients and review it at every meeting.
Our plan for building wealth for our physicians follows this proven process: