Can you retire with one million dollars? Of course there are many questions to answer first. At what age? How much will you receive in government benefits? Are you single or with spouse? How much debt will your carry into retirement? What lifestyle do you want to live in retirement? Do you want to leave […]
The RRSP meltdown. A Canadian retiree’s greatest hack?
The retirement financial planning tricks of the trade is not a long list. There are a few things you can do to greatly boost your retirement income, while you manage risk. The RRSP / RRIF meltdown might be the most useful retirement ‘hack’. The strategy entails spending down your RRSP funds at an aggressive rate, […]
Take those Canadian bank earnings to the bank, on the Sunday Reads.
You can’t keep a “good” oligopoly down. The big Canadian banks giveth and taketh in generous fashion. This past week delivered the generous earnings of the big Canadian banks. They take too much in fees from everyday banking. They take too much in fees from investments and advisory services (generally poor). But if you’re a […]
Checking in on Joan’s Canadian blue chip portfolio. Plus, the Sunday Reads.
In my wife’s personal RRSP account she held the Vanguard VDY-T ETF. It had outperformed the TSX Composite by about 1% annual. We can thank the financials overweight for that. The Canadian financials XFN-T and the Canadian banks ZEB-T have a long history of outperformance. In June of 2023 we moved to a Canadian blue […]
Retirement tip: use the spousal RRSP account on the Sunday Reads.
Income splitting is one of the most useful strategies in retirement. And here’s a retirement tip that is often missed – taking full advantage of the spousal RRSP account. The spousal RRSP account allows a higher income spouse to transfer funds into the hands of a lower income spouse. Those funds will grow tax free; […]
Tech stocks lift markets on the Sunday Reads.
Here we go again. Or with respect to our stock portfolios and net worth perhaps the right framing is ‘here we grow again’. And once again, it is tech stocks driving the market in the U.S. While a stellar earnings report from Shopify gave the Canadian markets a jolt. Shopify is once again the most […]