A Roth IRA can be a great way to save for retirement, as the accounts have no required minimum distributions and you can ...

Whenever you take a Roth IRA distribution, your contributions always come out first, followed by your Roth IRA conversions, if any, in order from the oldest to the most recent. Earnings come out last.

High-interest debt can feel like a dead weight, pulling you backwards, away from your future goals or retirement. It can be tempting to pull money out of your Roth IRA to pay off that debt, but is ...

Technically, you can’t take out a loan from a Roth IRA the way you can take a loan from a 401(k) account. But you can essentially take money out and put it back in or roll it to a new IRA ...

Roth IRA owners don’t have mandated withdrawal requirements during their lifetimes. But that’s not the case for those who inherit a Roth IRA. Since Roth IRA withdrawals are not subject to ...

The Roth IRA also offers a lot of flexibility. There are no required minimum distributions, as you have with a traditional IRA.Plus, you’re able to take out contributions (but not earnings) at ...

Unless you are a minor child, a disabled individual or a chronically ill individual, you must take all the funds out of the Roth IRA by Dec. 31 of the year containing the tenth anniversary of the ...

If you're looking to start investing but don't have access to an employer-sponsored 401(k) - or if you've maxed out your 401(k) and would like to invest even more - opening an IRA may be a wise ...

But while you may not incur an immediate cost when withdrawing Roth IRA contributions, each dollar you take out loses its compounding potential. For example, let’s say you withdraw $5,000 from ...

Don’t despair if you can’t max out a Roth IRA this year. This goal may take time to achieve. Even a few hundred dollars invested can balloon to several thousand dollars over a decade or two.

Another thing you lose if you take money out of a Roth IRA is the benefit of tax diversification, Buhrmann said. Diversification means “establishing various buckets of assets” he explained, ...