As a part of retirement planning annuity income can compliment other incomes you are receiving. There are two types of annuities – “life” and “term certain.” Both these types of annuities can be registered and non-registered. This article will outline the details of life annuities and suggest reasons why you may wish to consider [...]

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 [...]

I love to eat and that is why my wife decided for the both of us were going on a family diet over five months ago. Like the markets, I am down over twenty percent of my body weight. I share this with you this month because as your client’s public accountant you can help your [...]

One of the trends developing amongst investors in the last five to ten years is the belief that your portfolio can be divided into two components. The larger component consists of more conservative investments and is made up of traditional asset classes. It may contain bonds, blue chip stocks, broadly diversified mutual funds or exchange [...]