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Investors should consider these ideas before year-end to save tax After-tax returns are the only kind that can be spent or reinvested. There’s still time before year-end to keep the tax man at bay for 2023. Consider these ideas.

How to Be a Better Leader Amid Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity More than three decades ago, the U.S. Army War College developed a framework for understanding how leaders succeed during times of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

What Should Investors Do Amid the Rout in the Stock and Bond Market? Investors’ ears may be ringing with the Martha and the Vandellas hit 1965 song lately as a steep selloff in both the stock and bond market has rattled our nerves and upset any sense of balance in our portfolios.

What Is a Trust Fund and How Does It Work? A trust fund is an estate planning tool that is a legal entity that holds property or assets for a person or organization. Trust funds can hold a variety of assets, such as money, real property, stocks, bonds, a business, or a combination of many different types of properties or assets.

5 Ways to Actually Move Forward on That Task You’ve Been Avoiding It’s human nature to procrastinate — but it can be devastating for your future goals if you continually procrastinate on projects that are important but not urgent

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Happy Holidays from all of us!

The five global economic shifts happening now Long gone are the days when policymakers could understand inflationary pressures simply by constructing the best available indications of demand and comparing these with a constant annual rate of sustainable growth.

What Canadians don’t understand about our economic situation - which is a lot - can hurt us A recent poll of nearly 2,500 Canadians by Abacus Data reveals that our national economic perceptions are clouded by a fog of ignorance, misconception and hyperbole.

How to Prepare Your Phone and Other Tech for a Natural Disaster Having your tech ready to go could save your life during floods, hurricanes and wildfires.

Five things investors have learned this year The economy and asset prices have proved more resilient than feared.

In Life (And Retirement) Money Won’t Buy You Happiness The Beatles once said that money can’t buy you love, but money also can’t buy you happiness. Financial planners see people from across the entire spectrum of wealth, and can tell you firsthand that there isn’t a correlation between more wealth and more happiness.

Falling for the forecasting fallacy will cost investors in the long run Investing isn’t about timing the market but rather time in the market.

Here’s how the Bank of Canada’s interest rate hike to 5 per cent will impact Canadian households The central bank has been steadily increasing interest rates over the past three years in an effort to tame inflation.

Stuck in the middle: Coping with the crushing reality of the sandwich generation Five tools to manage stress when it hits.

Economists draw swords over how to fix inflation For as long as inflation has been high economists have fought about where it came from and what must be done to bring it down. Since central bankers have raised interest rates and headline inflation is falling, this debate may seem increasingly academic. In fact, it is increasingly important

My son Jeremy just graduated Masters of Professional Education from Western. Very proud of his accomplishments.

Personal finance in a perma-crisis world: Thoughts on debt, saving, taxes, food and houses The last normal summer was in 2019. Since then, we’ve slipped into what feels like a perma-crisis world of pandemic, war in Europe, an overloaded health care system and climate change disruption. The world isn’t headed back to the quieter days of 2019 any time soon, and neither are your personal...

The world’s most liveable cities in 2023 The EIU’s latest liveability index rates living conditions in 173 cities across five categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

Retirement crisis brewing as baby boomers near end of working lives with little, if any, savings Close to half of those aged 55 to 64 only have $5,000 or less put aside for retirement, HOOPP survey says.

Overspending or undercharging? These can be signs that trauma has shaped your relationship with money Here's how your mental health can affect your finances, and vice versa.

This Summer Will Be a Tick Fest. Know What to Do if You Get Bitten. Parts of the Northeast should expect an especially rough season for tick-borne diseases like Lyme.

How to manage your risks to protect your portfolio from a self-inflicted injury Risk is the possibility of something unpleasant or unwelcoming happening weighed against the reward being offered by certain activity. In the case of investing, it is the probability of locking in a permanent loss, while in adventure sports, it’s the chance of permanent injury.

The maps that guide us through our lives When the usual landmarks in our lives are lost, we have to find new ways of navigating. Paying attention to what we sense and feel, honouring and trusting our needs and intuition, can be a powerful start to finding our way back to ourselves. All maps can be redrawn.

The Reverse 4% Rule Puts Retirement Income, Spending Into Perspective A part-time job is like temporarily having a bigger nest egg while splurging on that luxury SUV will lower your spending for your entire retirement.

How to explain the puzzle of the world economy Welcome to the Mona Lisa effect