Retirement accounts are among the most significant financial assets many Americans hold at death. At the end of 2025, IRAs alone held $19.2 trillion, while defined contribution plans—including 401(k), 403(b), 457, and similar plans—held another $14.2 trillion. Among families that own individual-account retirement assets, those accounts represented 65% of their financial assets, according to EBRI’s analysis of the Federal Reserve’s 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances. That’s why it’s important to get the planning right. Planning for inherited retirement accounts used to be different. In many cases, beneficiaries could stretch distributions over their own life expectancy, which allowed for tax deferral…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sen. Bill Cassidy was decisively defeated in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana, unable to convince voters that he deserved another term five years after voting to convict President Donald Trump during an impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.He finished behind…

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Low-risk investments may be the heroes of your portfolio this year. These steady assets tend to hold their value while your growth-oriented positions react—or over-react—to headlines and macroeconomic trends. Keeping these safer exposures on hand helps mute dramatic changes in your net worth as economic and geopolitical circumstances evolve. Why…

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