Financial Advisor Gregory Ricks Explains How To Maximize Your IRA

Financial Advisor Gregory Ricks explains how you can maximize the effectiveness of your IRA when passed along to children
 
Sept. 19, 2012 - PRLog -- One of the more unreported concerns for retirees is how to protect your family when the time comes to pass along your IRA to your spouse and children when you’ve reached the end of your life.  Finding ways to maximize the value of your IRA for your family and avoiding painful tax implications is an important strategy that needs to be planned and implemented by a qualified financial advisor. Gregory Ricks provides some simple straightforward guidance on how to navigate these dilemmas and even find ways to help enrich your family in the process:

“Make a good move and your family can harvest millions from a well-designed IRA distribution plan.  Do it wrong, and the IRS becomes your IRA account’s biggest beneficiary,” said Gregory Ricks, Founder and CEO of Gregory Ricks & Associates, a registered investment adviser.

“Let’s focus on doing this right and what the tax law permits you to do that can enrich your family.  The concept is called many things. Some call it a “stretch IRA” (some like to call it making an IRA “multi-generational.”) The idea is simple -  it’s to take only what is required and stretch payments out over as long of a period of time as possible.”

“Ben Franklin died in 1790 and left his $4,000 estate to the State Of Pennsylvania and the City Of Philadelphia with one stipulation.  That restriction being that the money could not be accessed for 200 years and it had to be very conservatively saved.  In 1990, the State and City had a fund with $1,500,000, most of which went to support scholarships at Penn State University, with the compounded rate of return at just 3% (certainly conservative).”

“The power of compounding money safely is within your family’s grasp.  It is one of the few tax plans that favors the family over the taxman.  Here it is: when you reach the age of 70 ½, you must take Required Minimum Distribution (RMD).  Your spouse may use your IRA post your death for their retirement income and manage the account as their own.  This is in stark contrast to an “inherited IRA” where distributions are required at ALL ages.  So, if a widowed female died today with a $400,000 IRA and had two children ages 51 and 55 – her adult children MUST take distribution based on their single life expectancy or face penalties.  If she left her entire IRA to her grandchildren who were ages 23 and 25, they MUST take distribution – it’s called Required Beneficiary Distribution (RBD).  The key to maximizing your IRA’s value is having a great advisor who knows this math. Here is an example of what you can do:

Let’s go back to the beginning and assume your friend is John, he’s 70 years old and has a $1,000,000 IRA, (congrats to John, he’s a hard worker like you!) and his wife Jane is healthy and 65 years old.  They have two children Tim and Theresa ages 47 and 42; PLUS, three lovely grandchildren: Timmy, Jr. age 10, Suzie age 6 and the baby Ashley who just turned 4.  John being a well-educated and financially savvy guy made sure his account could be stretched out so that his family had the possibility of getting the following outcome:

John from age 70-88 would take out $1,074,860 of Required Distributions (at 6%)
At his death Jane would inherit $1,233,823 and by age 90 she would take $604,684 of distributions at 6% and leave her beneficiaries $1,137,007.

At Jane’s death the beneficiaries were 30% Tim, Sr, 40% Theresa, 10% to Tim, Jr and 10% to his sister Suzie, Theresa’s baby Ashley would get 10%, as well.

Tim, Sr. would inherit the IRA at age 72 with an initial balance of $341,102 and take distributions of $636,752 out over his 16-year life expectancy (assuming a 7% rate of return).

Theresa would inherit $454,803 at age 67 and take distributions of $998,298 over her 20-year life expectancy (assuming a 7% rate of return).

Timmy, Jr. would inherit $113,701 at 35 years old and assuming a higher rate of return of 8% he would take out $1,391,223 over his 49-year life expectancy.

Suzie at 31 would take out $1,758,091 on her inherited $113,701 and 53 year period of distribution (at 8%) and Baby Ashley on her inherited IRA of $113,701 would take $1,972,976 over her 55-year life span (again assuming 8%).

How does it all add up?  Well the family gets total distributions of $8,436,886 stretching out dad and Grandpa’s IRA – not too bad at all BUT there are a couple of catches here: first, tax laws could change (an ever present risk) and we are talking about a long time.  Also, the chance of everyone following the schedule is slim - but here’s the hook ……

If you don’t structure your IRA account this way then the chance of anyone taking advantage of this compounding opportunity is zero for the same reason you wouldn’t think about the taxes until after you won the ‘big prize’ from the prize patrol above.  Through good estate planning you can leave a great ‘set of instructions’ to your family so that wealth building opportunities like the stretch IRA aren’t missed.”

For more information on this topic, or to learn how Gregory Ricks can help, please visit http://www.gregoryricks.com.

About Gregory Ricks:
Founder & CEO, Gregory Ricks & Associates, Inc.
http://www.GregoryRicks.com  504-832-9200

Gregory Ricks is the Founder and CEO of Gregory Ricks & Associates, Inc. and is the Radio Talk Show Host of “Winning at Life with Gregory Ricks,” on Rush Radio 99.5 WRNO on Saturday mornings.  He is Louisiana’s 401k and Retirement Authority and author of the upcoming book, Winning at Life in Retirement, in which the emphasis is to avoid losing money to Wall Street, to avoid losing money to Uncle Sam and to protect assets from runaway health care costs late in life. He is a nationally sought after Wealth Manager, Tax Reduction Strategist and an Ed Slott Elite IRA Advisor who has been educating, advising and guiding clients for 28 years.  He has a unique vision and ability to look forward and help retirees see the financial road ahead so they know with certainty where they are, where they’re headed and where they’ll end up at any given point in time up to 10, 15 or 20 years out including changes in direction.  He does the math to ensure their monies are using the right tools and doing the right jobs for the right period of time so they win at life in retirement by enjoying the lifestyle they’re accustomed to without fear of running out of money.
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