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How financial journalists plan their own retirement

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It’s an occupational hazard of personal finance (PF) journalism that the writers’ lives are an open book. Anyone reading Retired Money knows my age and that I recently had to convert my RRSP into a RRIF. And I’m not alone: this summer has seen the retirement of some long-time PF columnists, notably The Globe and Mail’s Rob Carrick, who I interviewed for this column via Zoom.

At the end of June, Rob left the paper after 29 years; his beat was PF for 27 of those years. But as is typical of financial pundits, he’s not really “retiring” in the classic sense—he has just left salaried employment. At age 62, he concedes my term “Findependence” is an apt description of his changed status. He plans to write two monthly columns for the Globe: one on his new retirement experience, the other on traditional PF. His popular Carrick on Money column will be written by Globe and Mail colleagues and has been renamed simply On Money.

Rob and I both look back to the pioneering work Bruce Cohen did on the Canadian PF beat, which Bruce handed off to me a few years after I joined the Financial Post in 1993…

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Stock news for investors: Strong gold prices, full theatres, and steady grocery sales mark Q2 for top TSX firms

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