This post is about the importance of you investing for your future, regardless of whether you have a pension. At its heart, a pension is simply deferred compensation. Your employer is promising to pay you money when you presumably are no longer able to earn a living. In exchange, you give your loyalty and service […]
The deadline to contribute to your Registered Retirement Savings Plan for the 2020 tax year is March 1, 2021. I would strongly suggest that you contribute a little something to your RRSP because the money will grow on a tax-deferred basis. Tax-deferred just means that the money will not be taxed by the Canada Revenue […]
Quick! What is your marginal tax rate? If you answered “I don’t know”, then welcome to the club! Pull up a chair and sit down for a spell. Most of us do not know what our marginal tax rate is… which is really too bad. It’s one of the more useful pieces of information to […]
I’ve been reading many articles about how people in their 60s, 70s and even in their 80s are still working because they can’t afford to retire. Invariably, the statement is made that the government pension is not enough to retire on and to have a comfortable life. For the record, I want it known that […]
This week, I heard a very sad story about how seniors in Canada are becoming increasingly impoverished as they age. They don’t have enough funds to support themselves in their dotage. Here’s the link to the article. I’d encourage you to read it for yourself. Here’s one of the main take-away’s from the article. If […]
As we’re so often reminded in the media, fewer and fewer employers are offering defined benefit pension plans. These were the pensions that your parents and grandparents might have had – they worked a fixed number of years and their employers would pay them a fixed monthly pension from retirement until death. The defined benefit […]