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Roth IRA rules and stock market news for rollover from an employer's plan into a Roth IRA allow you to roll over all or part of an eligible rollover distribution that you receive from your (or your deceased spouse's) employer qualified pension, profit-sharing or stock bonus plan (which includes a 401k plan). You can also rollover all or part of an eligible distribution from an annuity plan, a tax-sheltered annuity plan ( known as a section 403b plan), and a governmental deferred compensation plat (known as a section 457 plan).

Any amount that is rolled over is subject to the same rules for converting a traditional IRA into a Roth IRA, and the rollover contribution must meet the rollover requirements that apply to the specific type of retirement plan. A distribution from a qualified retirement plan can be rolled over to a Roth IRA within 60 days after the distribution . Since the distribution is paid directly to you, the payer must generally withhold 20% of it.

Your teen has a part time job and probably plans for new clothes, video games or maybe a car. However, financial planner John Vento says a better bet is to get them to think long term, really long term, by opening up a Roth IRA.

So why a Roth IRA? For one thing, with a Roth IRA, they won't be taxed on any interest their money earns, we're talking decades of interest. Convincing them to put their money away for Roth IRA, say for 50 years may be difficult, there are some numbers that may help. Let's say they contribute $5,000 a year starting at age 14.

"Assuming they earn five percent per year, by the time they reach age 60 they will have accumulated over $885,000 via Roth IRA" explains Vento.
That gives them a retirement income of $57,000 a year for the next 30 years. Up that rate of return to an optimistic eight percent and by age 60, they'll have $2.2 million!…all because of Roth IRA.

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If current income restrictions on Roth IRA's are preventing you from using one for your planning purposes, you should also be thinking about not just investment management but estate planning as well. Fortunately, one of the best Roth IRA benefits is that it can be utilized as an inter-generational wealth transfer tool. Time plus modest regular savings can equal significant wealth accumulation for the next generation.

That's why setting up a Roth IRA when your children or grandchildren are still young can be one of your best long-term planning strategies. Over a 50 year time horizon, even a relatively modest savings rate can produce substantial wealth. There are no minimum distributions required for a Roth IRA holder, and unlike traditional IRAs minimum distributions are not required once the owner reaches age 70 ½. Therefore, theoretically, a child could have held a Roth IRA his or her entire life, never having tapped into it, and then pass it on to his or her beneficiaries upon death.