Retirement Income
Your FREE passes: See my talks at the #1 online event – Canadian Financial Summit 2021
The online Canadian Financial Summit is next week. It is the #1 personal finance event of the year. As a reader of Unconventional Wisdom blog, here are your FREE passes for a limited time. With these FREE passes, you can watch all the talks, and all your friends if you forward these passes to them. I’ll be one of…
Read MoreYour “Interactive Financial Plan” – the Only Way to Answer Your Life Questions
Have you received a free financial plan from your bank, or paid for a plan from a fee-for-service financial planner – but still don’t know the answer to your life questions? If a financial plan does not tell you what you want to know, it is probably either because: It is a “fake financial plan”.…
Read MoreQ&A from Canadian Financial Summit (podcast)
Your questions from the Summit are answered here! The biggest online personal finance conference in Canada is the Canadian Financial Summit, which was a few weeks ago. I was interviewed for 2 intriguing talks: How to Easily Outperform Investment Advisors & Robo-Advisors The High Risk of Bonds: Are Bonds Actually Safe Investments? Here are my answers to…
Read MoreThe High Risk of Bonds (podcast on The Maple Money Show)
The High Risk of Bonds https://maplemoney.com/podcast/high-risk-bonds/ I was recently interviewed by Tom Drake on The MapleMoney Show, the podcast that helps Canadians improve their personal finances to create lasting financial freedom. Most investors see bonds as a safe place to put their money, but conventional wisdom may be deceiving. Investing in bonds can actually put…
Read MoreHow to Easily Outperform Investment Advisors & Robo-Advisors
Investment advisors and robo-advisors have a massive disadvantage – they are short-term thinkers. You can easily outperform them by learning the skill of long-term thinking. Short-term thinking leads them to select suboptimal investments and focus on the wrong risk. You can clearly see this because nearly all investment advisors and robo-advisors do the “4 Performance…
Read MoreDemystifying Pensions – Podcast on Explore FI Canada
If pensions have you confused, this episode’s for you! I was interviewed on a fun podcast with Chrissy and Money Mechanic from Explore FI Canada answering questions from a listener named Kate about her pension. Kate asked her questions in an entertaining way that showed her frustration with not understanding her options. We discuss DC…
Read MoreHow to Easily Outperform Investment Advisors & Robo-Advisors
Understand how long-term thinking, having a Financial Plan, and unconventional wisdom can help you EASILY outperform both investment advisors and robo-advisors. Fun podcast with Chrissy & Money Mechanic of Expore FI Canada: On this episode, financial planner Ed Rempel tells us how to easily outperform investment and robo advisors. (Hint: it’s simpler and easier than you think—no…
Read MoreCreating the GPS to Financial Freedom (Video from “4 Pillars of Entrepreneurship Summit”)
Excellent video that summarizes our practice. It’s worth your time to understand: The profound change in your life a Financial Plan can give you. How Unconventional Wisdom creates very different and far more effective advice for you. I was recently interviewed for the 4 Pillars of Entrepreneurship Summit, an online summit of entrepreneurs talking about…
Read MoreMinimize Taxes on Retirement Income (on Tangerine.ca)
Very well-written and insightful interview and article on Tangerine.ca by Robin Taub. Worth reading. A couple quotes: “The key to minimizing taxes on retirement income is careful planning, and this normally starts years or even a decade or two before you retire.” “In retirement, your taxable income can be very different from the cash you…
Read MoreWhy aggressive stock investors should take CPP early (MoneySense by Jonathan Chevreau)
Very interesting article on MoneySense by Jonathan Chevreau. Every article I have ever read (other than this one and mine) about whether to start CPP at 60, 65 or 70 misses one of the 2 main factors – how you invest. If you take CPP early, you can take less from your investments. Will they…
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