Medical and Health Care Options for Retirees
While working many Canadians have medical and health insurance as an employee benefit. Their company often pays for a substantial portion of the coverage, and most often medical and health insurance expires when you retire.
Kicking up Life Lessons and Fun with Football
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How to Prepare for the Next Big One.
The last event I attended prior to COVID was the Daytona 500 in February 2020.
You may be wondering how a NASCAR race relates to the topic of retirement income planning?
Key Points for Wills and Powers of Attorney’s
Families during COVID-19 have realized that they should focus on concerns such as planning the family’s future. One of the most difficult challenges a Certified Financial Planner® has is to encourage clients to update and/or review their estate plan and documents. Often families tend to put this off, as it is not seen as urgent. […]
Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Tax Efficient Income Withdrawals
One of the most important decisions a retiree must make is how to create an income and cash-flow strategy from the financial assets they have accumulated over their lifetime.
Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Avoid the OAS Recovery Tax
It’s smart tax planning for retirees to arrange their income to avoid this clawback if possible. Some strategies to review are: Income split with your spouse/CLP (Common Law Partner) Tax effective non-registered investments Review the start date of your RRIF Use the younger spouse/CLP’s age for RRIF payments Use TFSAs Trigger large capital gains prior […]
Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Keep Track of Health & Medical Expenses
A smart tax strategy during retirement is to keep track of your medical expenses and take advantage of any credits that may be available.
Avoid a huge $$$$ mistake. Check your beneficiary designations now!
A recent article from CBC, Halifax women calling for more protections on RRSPs after husband’s sudden death by Emma Davie, reviews what can happen if you don’t have correct beneficiary designations on your registered plans. The article explained that the husband in the story had named his mother as the beneficiary of his RRSP when […]
Smart Tax Strategies for Retirees: Income Splitting
Income tax is one of the largest expenses any retiree has. A smart tax strategy to reduce a family’s overall tax burden is to split the income. This means to shift income from a spouse or common law partner (CLP) who is in a higher tax bracket to one who is in a lower tax bracket.
Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP)
My kids are 18 and 20, does setting up a new Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) still make sense? Excerpts from the Book – Preserving Wealth – written by Jack Lumsden, MBA, CFP® A new client asked if it still made sense to set up a new RESP for his kids, who were aged 18 […]
