I love Memorial Park. I recently moved to a much more urban neighborhood than where I previously lived and I have rediscovered this gem! At 6:30 in the morning, there is a whole city at Memorial Park – people and dogs of all shapes, sizes, ages, ethnicities. On a recent morning, I saw marathon runners, an ex-Secretary of State and his wife, an elderly gentleman with a walker being encouraged by an equally elderly best friend as well as moms pushing strollers and those like me, an empty nester just trying to keep some of those unwanted pounds off. There is encouragement simply in the numbers and the diversity.

If you are a “planning geek” such as myself, you have probably been reading the latest news about the Department of Labor’s new rule regarding giving advice on retirement assets.

As I continue to work with families and advise them with their year-end planning I have come across some common questions regarding required distributions from qualified accounts.