The Three Stages of Retirement Spending
When retirement planning, you may want to view your spending in three different phases. Michael Stein, who wrote “The Prosperous Retirement”, divided retirement into three decades: the GO-GO years, SLOW-GO years, and the NO-GO years. When discussing retirement income planning, Frank Jasek CPA, CA and I rephrased those terms based on our experience and have […]
Key Tax Credits to Review
Key Tax Credits to Review As everyone begins to assemble their tax documents to complete their 2021 income tax returns, there are some tax credits you will not want to overlook. Be sure to bring any expenses to your accountant. Here is a helpful list. Carry Charges If you have a fee-based investment account, the […]
Preserving Wealth The Next Generation
The Definitive Guide to Protecting, Investing, and Transferring Wealth. This book is based on my experiences working with many families developing and implementing plans to build, preserve and transfer wealth. I hope you enjoy the first chapter! CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION—MEET THE CAST It was the usual opening day for our father’s summer cottage, the May […]
Seven Strategies to Withdraw Corporate Assets for Retirement
A great strategy that many owners of Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPC) use to build up retirement savings is to invest within their corporation using the benefit of the tax deferral between their personal income tax rate and the small business income tax rate. At retirement business owners may end up with investment assets within their […]
How Business Owners can increase their Retirement Savings by Investing within their Corporation.
A great strategy many owners of Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPC) use to build up retirement savings is to invest within their corporation using the benefit of the tax deferral between their personal income tax rate and the small business income tax rate. Why invest with your CCPC? Investing within your CCPC offers the potential to defer […]
Do you need Disability Insurance?
Do you need Disability Insurance? While reviewing the financial documents during a meeting with a couple in their forties who wished to create a retirement plan, I didn’t see any disability insurance for one of the spouses. He had a group disability policy with work, but she was self-employed and didn’t have one. She mentioned […]
The 38 Blog Posts from 2021
I would like to thank all of you who have visited our blog and website. Below I have sorted the 38 blog posts I wrote last year by topic of interest to make the content easier to find. Some of the articles are good, some are ok, and some are…… Feel free to forward them […]
Risks to Retirement Income Planning
Retirement Income Planning is a speciality in the world of financial advice. There are specific risks that are different from simply saving for retirement. It requires a different skillset for the advisor to be able to plan for the specific risks when developing an income plan that will last a family’s entire lifetime. From my […]
What is the first step to creating your Financial Road Map for Retirement?
If you wish to create your own Financial Road Map for retirement, you need two things to start: You need to know where you are today, and Your best guess (estimate) of where you want to go. If you don’t know where you are today, you can’t create a plan to get where you want […]
Pump Your Tires!
Excerpts from the Book – Preserving Wealth – written by Jack Lumsden, MBA, CFP® I ride my bike during the winter when the temperature is above freezing, and the roads are dry. This past weekend I went for a ride on Saturday, and I felt slow and sluggish, realizing my tires were soft. Prior to […]