511: Sequence Risk Meets RMDs: The Retirement Trap No One Talks About
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Are your Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) setting you up for failure? Find out how sequence of returns risk combines with RMD rules to create a hidden hazard—and how smart planning, asset allocation, and timely Roth conversions can help you sidestep it.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why RMDs are self-regulating
- The RMD tax chain reaction
- Why withdrawal timing and asset allocation matters
- The power of Roth conversions
Today's article is from the Best Interest blog titled, RMDs + Sequence Risk = Retirement Destruction? Listen in as Founder and CEO of Howard Bailey Financial, Casey Weade, breaks down the article and provides thoughtful insights and advice on how it applies to your unique financial situation.
Show Notes: HowardBailey.com/511
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| 0:00.0 | Do required minimum distributions, RMDs have a destructive synergy with the sequence of returns risk? |
| 0:06.5 | Can this combo sink your boat in retirement? |
| 0:14.8 | Hey, this is Casey and welcome to the podcast, where it is my mission to deliver clarity and purpose and elevate meaning in your life. |
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| 1:53.9 | So we're selecting one of those articles today to take a deeper dive into the article we're going to be focusing on was written over on the best |
| 2:02.6 | interest blog and it is titled rmds and sequence returns risk now let me rephrase that it's |
| 2:09.3 | actually an equation rmds plus sequence risk equals retirement destruction question mark so that's what we're |
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