Should you contribute to your RRSP, TFSA or pay down debt

Lorne Zeiler, VP, Portfolio Manager and Wealth Advisor at TriDelta Investment Counsel spoke with Catherine Murray on BNN’s Market Sense. Lorne discussed the tax benefits of RRSP contributions, at which income levels RRSP contributions are most advantageous and he also reviewed strategies for consolidating and reducing debt. Click here to watch the full interview. Written…

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3 ways to benefit now from historically low interest rates

There are those who think that interest rates are going lower. They may be right. But this column is for those other folks. The ones who feel that the only place for interest rates to go from here is up. While many of us follow the prime rate that is tied to a variable rate…

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How long will I live?

Any which way you look at it, life is too short and we must learn to love life, each and every day as if it was the last. We help our clients find perspective and balance by having them complete our ‘Creation of true wealth’ questionnaire, which will hopefully get you thinking about how you’re…

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RRSP vs. TFSA

Like many Canadians most of us won’t be able to contribute the maximum to both a TFSA and an RRSP so what is the best strategy? Let’s say you have $5,000 to invest and assume for illustration that this is invested for 20 years, grows at 5.5% each year after fees and that your tax…

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Why giving your grown children an allowance may make financial sense

There is a saying “once your child, always your child.” For many seniors, the new saying is “once a dependent, always a dependent”. So does it ever end? With reports suggesting that today’s seniors are the richest in history, maybe it shouldn’t end. As the pile of cash for some wealthy seniors keeps growing, the…

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Four things you might not know about investment fees

Many mutual fund investors simply don’t know what they are paying or even that they are paying anything at all. A research study was done in 2013 by Environics of 1,004 Canadians over 25 years old and with more than $25,000 in investable assets. Of them, 25% said that they did not pay their advisor…

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