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A growth portfolio for the long term Apr 8th
Srinivas Velanki (Jason Franson)
The problem
Srinivas Velanki, a 52-year-old engineer from Edmonton, has a defined-benefit pension plan and real estate properties. Right now his low six-figure retirement portfolio is invested mostly in an RRSP of 90% balanced mutual funds, 7% global equity funds and.... More »
Your retirement investments did well this year. You can thank Donald Trump + MORE Dec 23rd
You may dislike the man, but his business-friendly policies, trade truces and lower interest rates all helped lift North American markets, writes Gordon Pape..... More »
How business owners should time CPP and OAS + MORE Apr 29th
Q: I retired recently, having just turned 65 years of age. I have not applied for CPP or OAS as yet because I had sufficient income in 2016 and did not need the additional income.
I do not have a private pension, but I do have the ability to draw dividends from a holding company which I own.
I do .... More »
Planning for retirement with little or no savings to draw on + MORE Mar 21st
Despite their best intentions, some Canadians, facing a variety of financial challenges throughout their working lives, are not able to save much towards retirement. It can be difficult to know how to manage in these circumstances, especially when so much of the financial planning advice that gets s.... More »
Money Makeover: Can they sail into retirement? + MORE Dec 10th
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Maybe you just think you want to retire
– moneysense.ca
(Thomas Barwick/Getty Images)To read MoneySense or any of the “Family Profiles” in the business sections of most Canadian or American daily newspapers, you’d think the only goal most middle-aged middle-class workers have is retirement.
And I certainly understand this. After a decade or three of employment in any large corporation or government body, release from the treadmill does at first glance seem to have some appeal.
But as I told Chris Hill recently in an installment of Motley Fool’s Market Foolery podcast, I believe many people just think they want to retire.
If all you’ve enjoyed after a multi-decade working life is an annual vacation of two or three weeks, the idea of an extended vacation—remember those endless summers in grade school?—does seem exhilarating. And as I know from my sister-in-law, in the United States early in a career, it’s common to have only two weeks of annual vacation. You only start to relax in the second week and the next thing you know, it’s back to the cubicle…
