Each year Americans pay billions of dollars in fees when they roll over their retirement accounts — and those fees can be hard to see.
Elizabeth Merry, 49, a marketing manager at a technology company, has saved up $150,000 in a 401(k) there. At the end of the year, though, she's leaving her job, and so she was thinking about rolling over that money into an IRA with the help of her financial adviser with Ameriprise Financial.