Happy Friday, dear readers. 
Roth conversions have gotten a lot of press over the last year (and I suspect that won’t change any time soon). Personally, I’m of the opinion that they’re being recommended in many cases where they don’t really make sense.
So I particularly enjoyed two articles this week — the first two below — one covering a good example of a Roth conversion, the other covering a bad example of a Roth conversion.
Investing
- Why We Converted Our Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA from Money Help for Christians
- Roth Conversion Fail from Joe Taxpayer
- Risk and Reward from Barbara Friedberg
- Why Dollar Cost Averaging Helps Eliminate Emotion from Free From Broke
- For Canadian readers: What is the Registered Disability Savings Plan? (RDSP) from Canadian Finance Blog
Other Personal Finance
- Is Financing a Car An Effective Way to Build Your Credit? from Studenomics
- Can You Retire Oversees on Less than $1,500 per Month? from Expat Investing
- Can You Count on Social Security? from PT Money
- My Teenage Son, His Cell Phone, and the Bill for $1,055.20 from Len Penzo
- The Siren’s Call of Passive Income from Money Smarts Blog
- How to Get Senior Term Life Insurance Cheap from Wealth Pilgrim
- 3 Questions to Answer Before Accepting a New Job from Green Panda Treehouse
Oblivious Investor on Tour
- Online Retirement Calculators: More Harm than Help? hosted by Bible Money Matters
Blog Carnivals
- Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by NerdWallet
- Stock Carnival Ecstasy hosted by Fast Swings
- Carnival of Financial Planning hosted by The Military Wallet
Thank you for including me in this Roundup, Mike!
Thanks as well, Mike. Keep up the good work.
As usual, there are too many interesting articles in your round-up. How can I ever get anything done:). I’m headed over to see if I can get some cheap term life insurance right now!!!
thank you for featuring my risk & reward article. I really appreciate it.
Best regards, Barb
ps I’m still deliberating about converting another of our (many) retirement accounts! I’m sure your article will get me thinking!
Thanks for the mention Mike!
Thanks for including my dollar cost averaging article!