“Not because you’re going to die, but because you’re going to survive”
- Dr. Marius Barnard, physician that developed the concept of Critical Illness insurance
Recovering from a critical illness can be a personal triumph and a financial disaster. Financial strain can result from the inability to continue working, medical costs not covered through provincial or personal [...]

Today, investing internationally is as easy as it is to stay at home. You can look to the U.S markets. You might also consider international mutual funds or listed, exchange traded funds. Or you can invest directly on foreign stock exchanges.
As a first step, Canadians can use the U.S. markets to receive the benefits of [...]

Investors seeking income often limit their selection to bonds and give little or no consideration to preferred shares. They usually ignore preferreds simply because they don’t know much about them.
Perhaps the easiest way to think of preferred shares is that they are shares which behave like a bond. A preferred share represents an ownership interest [...]

If you own a professional practice, you may have considered incorporating. Among the well-known advantages of doing so are the ability to pay a reduced corporate tax rate, to defer personal income tax, and to limit your personal liability in the event of legal action against your practice.
These benefits and protections are certainly compelling, but [...]

In today’s financial world, the ever-expanding variety of investment products available, combined with the technological sophistication to execute orders and retrieve information — often within seconds — has made investing relatively easy. However, investing wisely is anything but. Investment opportunities have multiplied, but so has the time required to research them adequately. As a result, [...]