Ed Slott

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  Senate Bill Threatens Life of Stretch IRAs

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 21, 2012

  Industry trade groups are up in arms over a provision in a Senate highway bill that would reduce the value of inherited IRAs, commonly referred to as stretch IRAs, and are determined to have it removed.

• The IRA Conundrum

  By Grace W. Weinstein  |  April 1, 2007

  Individual Retirement Accounts started out as small potatoes. With annual contributions capped at $1,500 in the initial years from 1974 through 1981, then locked in...

• RULING CLASS

  By Lynn O'Shaughnessy  |  March 1, 2006

  CAN A DECEASED INVESTOR OPEN AN INDIVIDUAL Retirement Account? The question may seem ludicrous, but the Internal Revenue Service took it seriously when a young...

• Part 2:Deferred Gratification

  By Staff Writer  |  November 1, 2002

  The sale of annuities to people who don't need them has been the subject in the press and in the courts. It's old news. So...

• The Smallest Difference

  By Staff Writer  |  May 3, 2002

  New tax regulations may seem minor, but every litt