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In the fall of 2021, Devin Friedman, editor-in-chief of Wealthsimple’s magazine, met with the fintech company’s co-founder Rudy Adler to talk about launching a newsletter.
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Our bucket approach to earning income in retirement
– myownadvisor.ca
Save, invest, prosper with My Own Advisor.Earning income in retirement
There is a wealth of information about asset accumulation, how to save within your registered and non-registered accounts to plan for retirement – when you’re no longer working. Or maybe you are working? Potentially you have income from other sources? Might there be an inheritance or another cash flow source in your future?
My point is, unfortunately there is little information (or not nearly enough written) about asset decumulation including approaches to earning income in retirement.
One of my favourite books about generating retirement income is one by Daryl Diamond, The Retirement Income Blueprint. This is one of the best I’ve read. It is my hope to start exploring this subject more on my site – including for my own benefit – to figure out what earning income in retirement can and needs to look like for us.
Thinking about this subject recently I realized the less I know and the more I need to learn…
As legalization looms, Canada’s volatile marijuana stocks are a risky bet
– canadianbusiness.com
Tweed employee Ryan Harris works inside the Flowering Room with medicinal marijuana at Tweed Inc. in Smiths Falls, Ontario, on December 5, 2016. (Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty)It doesn’t take much to move the dial—up or down—on cannabis stocks. The last five months alone have been a roller coaster for Canadian medical marijuana producers on various stock exchanges, whose investors tend to flinch at the faintest whiff of news that’s just off-neutral in tone.
The latest trigger for investors was a recent CBC report that the Liberal government would stick to its plan to table legislation for recreational marijuana production, distribution and use this spring, and have laws in effect by July 1, 2018.
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This information wasn’t actually new; it reinforces the general timeline the government had already talked about…
Bombardier reminds us how easy governments make it to forget taxpayer investments: Don Pittis
– cbc.ca
The invisible hand analysis insists executives create wealth and so deserve sky-high salaries. But often it’s quickly forgotten handouts from taxpayers that make their wealth possible.
