An individual retirement account (IRA) is one of the most popular ways to invest for retirement. Not only are you saving for your future, but you’re also getting a generous tax advantage to do ...

Image source: Getty Images. If you have existing retirement accounts -- whether pre-tax or post-tax -- you generally have the option of rolling over your account to a Roth IRA. First, there are ...

Image source: Getty Images. In a traditional IRA ... the IRS can strip your account's IRA status. That's treated as a taxable distribution of all assets in the account as of January 1.