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Assume, you are 30 years old and you contribute $4000 per year to an IRA or company retirement program. If you continue to do so until you are 65, you will accccumulate over a $1 million if you earned 10% per year.
Assume you take 5% ($50,000) out each year to live, but you pass away at the age of 80. Your Roth IRA is still earning 10% Your IRA would be worth over $2 million. Your daughter inherited your IRA. She is 50 years old.
Your daughter has the option of leaving the IRA money in your name. She would start taking money out each year based on her life expectancy and pay taxes on that, but the rest could continue to grow tax-deferred. If your daughter's life expectancy is 30 years when you passed away, she could continue your IRA and would only have to take out 1/30th each year.
This means the $2 million can continue to grow tax-deferred for another 30 years! Let’s assume it continues to earn 10% and that she takes out 5% ($100,000) each year. Thirty years down the road, the IRA the daughter inherited IRA from you will have grown to over 9 MILLION DOLLARS!
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When 401(k)s And IRAs Are Not EnoughQuestion: I'm 32 years old and maxing out my 401(k) and my Roth IRA. I have another $1,200 a month that I'm putting into a savings account that already has about four months worth of emergency money and that pays only 4.5 percent. I'm not familiar with stocks and have limited knowledge of funds, but I'm wondering whether I can do better than the savings account for that extra $1,200 a month. Any suggestions? -Norm, Dumfries, Virginia
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