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CFP CE Webinar Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET

Getting Ahead of the RMD Deadline: Distribution and QCD Moves (CFP CE Webinar)

The RMD is due December 31. The planning is in the order of the moves: which account each distribution comes from, when a QCD fits, and how this year's income shapes Medicare premiums two years from now.

Justin Fitzpatrick
Justin Fitzpatrick, PhD, CFA, CFP® President & Co-Founder · Income Lab
What you'll walk away with
  • Map the RMD decisions that must be made before December 31.
  • Decide when a QCD beats a deductible cash gift, and time it to count toward the RMD.
  • Connect this year's distributions to Medicare premiums two years out.

CFP continuing education session. Attend at least 50 minutes live and provide your CFP ID in the post-webinar survey for attendance reporting. Income Lab will review attendance and submit eligible records.

Save Your Seat

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
3:00 PM ET / 2:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM MT / 12:00 PM PT
60 minutes
Free to attend

After registering, check your email for your personal join link.

Treat the RMD as a sequencing problem.

An educational session using hypothetical scenarios. The focus is a practical order of operations for year-end distribution reviews across a client base.

Decisions due by December 31

Identify the RMD decisions that must be completed before the deadline, including the one-time first-year deferral election and the two-distribution tax year it can create.

QCDs in practice

Review the eligibility and account-type rules, why QCDs come from IRA-type accounts rather than employer plans, and when a QCD outperforms a deductible cash gift on adjusted gross income.

Order of operations and the two-year lookback

See why a QCD must be timed against the year's other distributions to count toward the RMD, and how distribution-year income sets Medicare premium surcharges two years later.

For educational purposes. Hypothetical scenarios are illustrative and do not provide tax or legal advice for a specific client.

Meet Your Host

Justin Fitzpatrick, PhD, CFA, CFP®

President & Co-Founder · Income Lab

Justin Fitzpatrick
PhD, MIT CFA® Charterholder CFP®

Justin co-founded Income Lab in 2018 to close a gap he saw across the industry: advisors lacked a way to give retirees a concrete, trustworthy answer to "how much can I spend?" He built the risk-based guardrails methodology now used by thousands of advisors, replacing probability-of-success scores with a specific spending number and dynamic adjustment rules that update automatically as conditions change.

Before Income Lab, Justin spent a decade at Jackson leading advanced planning teams and developing financial technology. He also spent seven years in academia, teaching at MIT, Harvard, Queen Mary University of London, and UCLA. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from MIT, a CFA Charter, and CFP certification.

His research and writing have appeared in Kitces.com, ThinkAdvisor, AdvisorPerspectives, and Financial Planning Magazine, and he speaks regularly at the CFP Board Research Colloquium and at NAPFA and FPA conferences.

An educational framework for year-end distribution planning.

Reserve your seat.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 · 3:00 PM ET · 60 minutes · Free for advisors.