The Many Reasons to Roth

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• The ratio of household wealth to income is at an all time high

  80% confidence

• The years before required minimum distributions kick in, but after you have decided to retire, sometimes that's the best time to consider a Roth conversion

  80% confidence

• A reasonable default option for retirement plan is living to age 95, since there's a 20-25% chance that one member of a 65-year-old couple will live to their mid 90s

  80% confidence

• When you have money in a traditional account, you basically have a co-owner of the account, the co-owner being Uncle Sam

  80% confidence

• For a lot of folks, including a lot of Motley Fool members, those later tax rates can be higher than what you're paying now, especially if you're early in your career not paying much in taxes yet

  80% confidence

• Household net worth is now more than eight times after tax income compared with an average of 5.5 times after tax income in the decades between World War II and the great financial crisis of 2008

  80% confidence

• The top 10% own 87% of all equities and mutual funds

  80% confidence

• Little by little, sometimes is the best way to get these things done with Roth conversions

  80% confidence

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