BIOGRAPHY
Ed Slott is a nationally recognized IRA distribution expert, professional speaker, television personality, and best-selling author. He is known for turning advanced tax strategies into understandable, actionable, and entertaining advice. He has been named “The Best Source for IRA Advice” by The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today wrote, “It would be tough to find anyone who knows more about IRAs than CPA Slott.”
As president and founder of Ed Slott and Company, LLC, the nation’s leading source of accurate, timely IRA expertise and analysis to financial advisors, institutions, consumers and media, he provides advanced training to financial professionals to become knowledgeable recognized leaders in the retirement marketplace; and answers to retirement savers’ most important questions, continually providing practical, easy-to understand information on IRA, retirement, tax and financial planning topics.
Mr. Slott is an accomplished author of many financial books, with his latest, The Retirement Savings Time Bomb Ticks Louder: How to Avoid Unnecessary Tax Landmines, Defuse the Latest Threats to Your Retirement Savings & Ignite Your Financial Freedom (Penguin Random House, 2024.) His popular website IRAHelp.com is a resource for financial professionals and consumers.
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CPA – Certified Public Accountant is a license set by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and administered by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. Eligibility to sit for the Uniform CPA Exam is determined by individual State Boards of Accountancy. Typically, the requirement is a U.S. bachelor’s degree which includes a minimum number of qualifying credit hours in accounting and business administration with an additional one-year study. All CPA candidates must pass the Uniform CPA Examination to qualify for a CPA certificate and license (i.e., permit to practice) to practice public accounting. CPAs are required to take continuing education courses to renew their license, and most states require CPAs to complete an ethics course during every renewal period.
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The single biggest retirement planning mistake to avoid, the problem with tax professionals, and answers to some of the most frequently asked retirement questions we get on YMYW: should you name a trust as beneficiary on your retirement accounts? What’s the break-even point on a Roth conversion? What if you don’t have the money to pay the tax when you convert to Roth? Plus, find out the eye-opening amount of money good tax planning can save you! Someone has to be very knowledgeable, entertaining, and special to make it as a guest on YMYW these days. Today “the IRA guru” Ed Slott, CPA from IRAHelp.com joins Joe Anderson, CFP® and Big Al Clopine, CPA to discuss all of these topics, along with changes to stretch IRAs and required minimum distributions from the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 Act. Finally, don’t miss your chance to get a free copy of Ed Slott’s latest book, The Retirement Savings Time Bomb Ticks Louder.
