About this episode

This episode decodes intimidating financial terms that retirees often struggle with.

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People in this episode

Host: Charles Dzama

Topics covered

• retirement planning
• financial vocabulary
• tax rates
• RMDs
• Roth IRA
• capital gains

Keywords

• effective tax rate
• backdoor Roth
• cost basis
• RMDs
• retirement consultation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CD Financial

Products: Digital Federal Retirement Guidebook, Checklist Challenge

Places: Federal

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