8 Aug
Cash Wedge Strategy

Cash Wedge Strategy As you approach and enter retirement, it’s crucial to carefully manage your investment portfolio to ensure a secure financial future. While the common strategy of shifting to a conservative portfolio may seem prudent, it’s important to recognize the potential risks associated with underperforming investments and market volatility. To safeguard your retirement income and protect your legacy, it’s vital to implement the Cash Wedge strategy in your portfolio.…

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5 May
Financial Strategy: The 3rd Approach.

The third approach is a financial strategy that has benefited many of our households. It is a simple solution to help address the main financial areas in your life: Debt, Investment, and Lifestyle. The 3rd Approach Once you receive your first full pay after your increase, split the extra amount into three parts: 1. Debt Payments 2. Investments 3. Lifestyle Example: Say you have a $150 raise. You would increase:…

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4 Apr
6 Steps to Sound Financial Principles

6 Steps to achieve financial prosperity Defensive Principles: 1- Pay off all your debts A key element of any client’s financial planning is to prepare a debt repayment plan, using either the “snowball” or “avalanche” approach. The snowball approach is applied by paying down your smallest debts first regardless of the interest rate, whereas with the avalanche approach you pay down the debt with the highest interest rate first. Both…

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4 Apr
Why my budget never works? – BAIE

The expense categories are the following. • Housing • Transportation • Personal • Emergency funds Each category has subcategories. For instance, under Housing, we recommend saving the following. • Heating (if not equalized) • Municipal and school tax • Maintenance and renovation (1% of your home value) How it works. We help you determine your projected cost and divide the amount by numbers of pays you receive a year. If…

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10 Oct
OAS Clawbacks

If you are facing this situation it means you have made good choices during your accumulation years and are now facing a good problem but why pay more taxes than you need to?

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