Your wedding is approaching, and you’re getting excited. You and your future spouse have talked about where you want to live, how many kids you want to have, and what kind of lifestyle you’d like to enjoy. But have you discussed your financial health? Numerous surveys have shown that money is one of the main…
Generally, there are four ways to save for college:
Gone are the days of seemingly endless college applications, lengthy essays, and anxious weeks waiting for an acceptance. Your young adult has made a decision and he or she is college bound. It’s a very exciting time – a transitional process described beautifully by actress Tina Fey in Admission: “Parents exist to drive their kids insane.”
Generation Y includes those born between 1977 and 1991, ranging in age from 22 to 36 years old. Also referred to as echo boomers and millennials, the group makes up about 25% of the U.S. population.
One of the more interesting provisions in the recently passed American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA) is the ability to do a Roth conversion within a 401(k) plan. Before January 2nd, employees were mostly prevented from moving assets from the traditional, pre-tax portion of their 401(k) to a Roth component of the same 401(k) plan. While it was available to those employees who otherwise were eligible to take a distribution from the plan, that was rather limited. With the passage of ATRA, Congress has opened up the opportunity for anyone to move assets from the traditional, pre-tax portion of the 401(k) plan to the tax-free, Roth portion of their 401(k).
As a member of “Generation Y,” you are a young adult in your late teens, 20s, and early 30s, born between 1980 and 1994. Also called “Millennials” or “Echo Boomers,” you grew up amidst booms in the stock and real estate markets, only to see each of those “bubbles” burst. More educated than any prior generation, you attained those credentials during a time of skyrocketing educational expenses.
