2025!! How Did That Happen?!
As a kid growing up in the ‘80s, 2025 seemed like a distant future away. Many movies and TV shows portrayed the 2020s either as an advanced time with flying cars or a dystopian world that has been destroyed by wars or natural disasters. Since my childhood, the Mayan calendar ended in 2012 without major […]
More Overlooked RRSP Tricks
More than 65% of Canadians have made deposits to Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs). Many do so just for the tax savings, but here are some often overlooked tricks you should be aware of: RRSP loans – Those who use investment funds for their RRSPs should be well aware of the strategy of ‘buying low and […]
The Retirement Dilemma: Part 1
In the mid – 1960s conventional wisdom (or motherhood) for retirement planning said that you should take all of your investments and put them into government bonds or fixed income type products. The thinking was that you could not afford to take any ‘risk’ in your retirement years. Thus it was believed that guaranteed investing […]
