"Set it and Forget it"
If you are of a certain age, you will probably remember late night commercials for the Showtime Rotisserie that encouraged TV watchers...


How Did The "Experts" Do with their 2015 Predictions?
In a word, Lousy. The Globe and Mail, to their credit, ran an article on December 18 that compared predictions made by top Canadian...


Do I Need to Save for Retirement if I have a Company Pension Plan?
First of all, consider yourself lucky that you are one of the few remaining workers in Canada that can still count on a pension plan at...


How Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Fit Into Your Retirement Savings
Canada Pension Plan If you work in Canada, you are already contributing to your retirement savings through the Canada Pension Plan. The...


How Much of Your Income Should You Save?
What percentage of your income should you save for retirement? In a recent post, I told you that most of us can enjoy a similar standard...


How to Invest Your Retirement Savings
What to do with your retirement savings: Rule #4: Invest your savings in low cost stock and bond index funds: As hard as it is to...


How Much You Need to Save For Retirement
The short and fairly useless answer is: It depends. You want to save enough so you can have a secure retirement but not too much that...


The Importance of an Emergency Fund
Rule#2 Build up an Emergency Fund of 6 months living expenses. Like it or not, life is full of little surprises, some good and some not...


Let's un-complicate things.
Many professions have a bad habit of making what they do far more complicated than it has to be. When I write "bad" habit, I mean bad...
























