A new year raises an old, perennial question about how retirees should optimize the use of their retirement savings.

As a general rule, you'll need to take a required minimum distribution by the end of each calendar year after you turn 73.

But keep in mind that you can't keep all that money in there forever. The IRS requires you to begin withdrawing money from ...

Required minimum distributions (RMDs) on pre-tax retirement accounts start at age 73 for account holders born between 1951 ...

Missing required minimum distributions can lead to large tax penalties.

If you play your cards right, you can avoid an unwanted tax bill. When I first started working full-time and was able to make ...

If you’re entering retirement, it’s essential to understand how required minimum distributions, or RMDs, work. Tax-deferred ...

Once you hit required minimum distributions age (73), how much control do you have over the timing, amount, and source of your distributions? Let’s examine each of the levers. Retirees exert some ...

Required minimum distributions, or RMDs, are the amounts that must be withdrawn each year from specific retirement plan accounts upon reaching the required minimum distribution age. These mandatory ...