Q. Hi Dan. In your last column you wrote about “… a rather infamous provision dubbed the ‘pro-rata rule.’” One of my IRAs is non-deductible, so I need to know what that is and why it’s infamous. Can ...

Pro rata is the proportional allocation of revenues, expenses, assets and liabilities to entities based on each entity's original share of the total amount. Pro-rata reduction is the proportional ...

Note: This article is part of Morningstar's 2018 Guide to IRAs special report. A version of this article appeared on Oct. 10, 2016. At first blush, the term "pro rata" sounds like the worst type of ...

Whenever pro-rata rights are involved, you can always smell some drama. When a company raises a financing round, new and old investors often battle it out for the largest stake they can get. While ...