When you hear a strange noise coming from your car, do you:
- Drive straight to the mechanic
- Take it home to do some diagnostics on your own
- Turn up the music and pretend it never happened
If you answered c, I’m curious if you deal with your finances the same way. Do you take the ‘ignorance is...
Be honest, when’s the last time you slowed down?
Hear me out. Maybe you started your business 15 years ago with a couple of shovels and a beat-up truck, a laptop and a dream, or using your kitchen as Grand Central for your shipping operations. Although it still might feel like you’re just ‘getting ...
If you’ve got kids in high school, you might have had the following conversation around the dinner table, or on the drive to hockey practice:
Your kiddo: “The (really far away) University of XYZ was at my school today and I think I might want to go there when I graduate.”
You: A few moments of ...
Dying is an unpleasant thing to think about. It’s also inevitable. None of us are getting out alive. Selling life insurance is almost as awful. There are few products on earth as universally despised as life insurance. No one likes to buy it, no one likes to talk about it, and everyone thinks it'...
To a person, all of my retired clients start with this goal: 'I do not want to be a financial burden.' Sure, it is worded differently or coded as, 'Will we have enough?', but most people want the same thing - to be able to take care of themselves financially.
Here is how to do that...
Retire Deb...
Financial planning is NOT...
A good financial plan is not a giant document filled with 50+ pages of charts, graphs, asset mixes, and predictions of inflation 40 years from now.
It is NOT a ‘road map to success.’
And it is almost guaranteed to NOT come true!
Wait, what?
Financial planning IS...
As a financial advisor, I am compensated by charging my clients a percentage of their assets under management – the value of all of their accounts that I help manage.
In most cases, you can save about 1% by not using me. There are dozens of investment options out there that are very VERY cheap! Ema...
There is an investment firm in Calgary called Mawer Investments and they are VERY good at what they do.
The company's slogan is 'Be Boring. Make Money' and that resonates with me at my core! Having been through a fair share of market dips in my 11ish year career, I LOVE boring (and you should ...
Life insurance is always more expensive tomorrow than it is today! You can buy your newborn an awesome policy that will change their financial stars forever for less than maxing out their RESP costs.
There is no physical; applying is easy, and it is a GREAT way to divert grandparents’ spending...
According to television ads, your financial advisor is a crook who's dead set on robbing you blind and leaving your family poor in retirement. 🥴
I have to hand it to the folks at @questrade, they have done a very good job of promoting their platform based on their fees being cheaper. I know th...
There is a correction in the market – even a recession – coming. I promise. ☝️
When, you ask? I have no clue and no one else does either – it's all speculation, but that's not the purpose of this note.
Yes, you (and your portfolio) should be ready for the eventual recession, but more imp...
Working with a (𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝, 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥-𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞) advisor won’t make you rich via hot stock tips or out-of-this-world returns. Investment selection is a small piece of what we do, but it is by no means where you get all of your value from.
Let me explain:
𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆: working with an advisor, you will s...
