Coasting in Retirement Ep 17: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Roth Conversions & Back-Door Roths
A Roth Conversion is a pretty simple concept to grasp. Basically, you take a withdrawal from the assets that you have accumulated in a pre-tax qualified account, or in plain English, a traditional IRA, and then that withdrawal is deposited into a Roth IRA account soon thereafter.