The vast majority of that is in
several taxable accounts, since I have made many financial mistakes, one of which was not putting enough away in tax - sheltered retirement accounts.
Not exact matches
You have
several options for potentially reducing your 2017
taxable income with a contribution to a tax - advantaged
account up until the tax deadline.
My portfolio is located within
several accounts — retirement
accounts (401k at work, past 401ks that have been rolled over into IRAs, SEP IRA) and
taxable accounts (with Vanguard, E * Trade, and Ameritrade.)
There are
several different circumstances that will generally happen in the time between now and when you want to withdraw the money in retirement that would be
taxable events if you are not in a retirement
account:
In 2015 I am drawing on cash and investments held in a
taxable account, and don't foresee needing to tap my IRAs for
several years.
This is one of
several reasons we advise against using DRIPs in
taxable accounts.
However, their nearly $ 1,000,000 portfolio in a
taxable account holds
several mutual funds that could make end - of - year capital gains and dividend distributions, and they're not certain how much (if any) will be distributed until very late in the year.
To sum up, you could easily lose
several basis points of returns p.a. due to inefficient allocation of capital between the
taxable and tax - deferred
accounts.
-LSB-...] We list
several more examples detailing how an individual with both
taxable and retirement
accounts would experience a sub-optimal allocation using the Robo - advisers.