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After decades of using registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) to reduce taxable income, it can come as a shock to discover the shoe will one day be on the other foot. At the end of the year you turn 71, you have to either cash out your RRSP (not recommended), annuitize it or convert it into a RRIF, a registered retirement income fund.

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The latter is the most popular action. In a recent TSI Wealth Network blog, investment analyst Patrick McKeough said he prefers RRIFs to annuitizing or cashing out…

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