The days are drawing in and Christmas is just around the corner. The shops are getting busier and, if you’re organized, perhaps you have even finished your Christmas shopping. For some though, Christmas is the season where they buy this […]
A perfect storm is starting to brew as homeowners with variable rate mortgages as they are having to increase their mortgage payments to cover the increasing interest rates. To top it off, it may be in a market with decreasing […]
This seems to be getting more and more prominent. Consider this. You’re rushing out the door and you pat that familiar spot to confirm you’ve got your wallet, only to find nothing. I don’t know about you, but after searching […]
With the perfect storm of very volatile markets, inflation, increasing interest rates and super high housing and rental costs, many young people are left in the dust. Have we been therefore? Sure, we have, but not so much in respect […]
While preparing a draft financial life plan for a new client recently, we were reviewing the client’s existing planning and came across a fairly standard issue that should be addressed in their plans: the efficient withdrawal of income during retirement. […]
Well, I suppose many people are sitting there worried about the status of their investment portfolios in light of our current markets and the headaches happening around the world. Shall I say, we’ve been here before? Well, that doesn’t hold […]
Here we go again for the good. The Federal Government is creating a new Tax-free First Home Savings Account (FHSA) as a way to assist new buyers save money for their down payment in a ridiculously expensive and barred real […]
Maybe this is the first year in several where we will see kids return to school for a prolonged stay moving away from the confusing partial at home education they have been receiving during the pandemic. Whether you’re a […]
We have discussed the foundation and fundamentals of financial life planning. We’ve laid the framework. Now we can create focus. The financial life planning model is a holistic model. To be truly client-centered is to view the individual in terms […]
This is the second of three posts about financial life planning. The last post introduced the underlying values of the process. It explored asking meaningful questions that leads to an integrated and humanistic approach to planning. It drilled down to […]