Retirement guide

ARTICLE TAKEAWAYS

  • Use this guide to determine what actions to consider if you have recently retired.

Actions to consider

Consider talking to your financial professional. They can offer advice and help you make decisions when going through a major life event or change.

You can log in and complete account updates and perform transactions for most account types.

Consider moving your retirement plan assets

  • If you don’t have an IRA or other account at Capital Group that can accept a movement of retirement plan assets, contact your financial professional to discuss opening a new account
  • Transfer or roll over assets into an existing American Funds traditional or Roth IRA
     

Review how you can take a distribution from your account 

  • Take a one-time distribution
  • Set up or modify an automatic distribution plan
  • Download the Add/Update Bank Information form (PDF) to link a bank account to receive distributions
     

Review the investment allocations in your account

  • Complete a one-time exchange or rebalance in an account
  • Set up or modify an automatic rebalance plan 
  • Set up or modify an automatic exchange plan
     

Review the beneficiaries on your account

  • Review or update the beneficiaries on your IRA and/or transfer on death account
     

Review the personal and banking information on your account

  • Update your address
  • Update your email address to ensure you receive alerts about account activity, security and document availability
  • Update your bank account information

Contact us

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