I was listening to Clark Howard yesterday and heard an interesting phone call.  I confirmed what I heard with my accountant, and it seems on the up and up.  The caller asked if this would be the perfect time to roll a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA with the markets being low.  The thinking [...]

I’ve talked to several people over the past few days who are really buying into the whole idea that there is a crisis on Wall Street.  It seems like they pay special attention when a politician or pundit talks about the fact that everyone’s 401k is dropping and their retirement accounts are being wiped out. [...]

So I just got around to doing my 401k rollover from my last job.  I’d already set up an IRA from a previous rollover, but I wasn’t sure if I could roll into that same IRA, but I called up Vanguard and found out that it was no problem.  Now, how to allocate?
My IRA with [...]

We’re still adjusting to the differences in not having a regular paycheck coming in.  With all the chaos, I completely forgot about one of the best parts of leaving my job–I get to roll my 401k over into an IRA.  Not that there was anything wrong with their 401k, but I like the idea of being able to control that investment completely.  We were given very few fund choices [...]