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Mortgage management: Floating your way to prosperity?
A thoughtful consideration of the advantages to a variable rate mortgage. Based on fifty plus years of Canadian interest rate history.

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Education strategies
20% Return Guaranteed?
How can one possibly pass it up? 2002 back-to-school newsletter.
For fuller detail on Registered Education Savings Plans, look to the Human Resources Canada website.

Ontario Securities Commission warns of pooled RESP risks
From the Financial Post: "Aggressive marketing techniques. . . forfeited earnings. . . enrollment fees, administration and management fees, sales incentive fees, trustee fees, advisor fees, custodian fees. . . .practices no longer permitted in the mutual fund industry. . . ."

Grandparents to the rescue!
1999 back-to-school newsletter explains why the newer version RESP was not being appropriately used. But today is the same: free money is being left on the table.

Grandparents to the rescue! Redux
2004 back-to-school newsletter introduces two RESP enhancements from the March 28, 2004 federal budget. . . and how they can be employed for the long term benefit of the recently born.

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Estate stories and strategies
Crunched on the Sea-to-Sky
Estate planning gone awry.

Five very good reasons to avoid estate planning

Not the family home!
Sad but true. Estate planning as she's normally done.

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Investment strategies
The cycle of market emotions
Of all the financial cycles, this one has the potential to wreak the greatest portfolio destruction.

Doing well doing good
Socially responsible investing makes out like hamsters

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Protection strategies
Leveraging the home
Each in a different way, three sisters leverage home equity to meet their ultimate medical costs.

Countering costly care
Resenting Americanization, Wally Bob Warfarin strives to break the alien stranglehold on his health care dollar.

Sara: the Informed Patient
At age 33, Sara suddenly started to lose her vision and, in less than 2 weeks, she was almost totally blind. This promotional article illustrates how Sara utilized BEST DOCTORS, a medical referral service.

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Retirement lifestyle strategies
More to life than golf? Is it possible?
Wally Bob Warfarin baffled by wealthy brother-in-law who can't stay near one course.

The multifaceted RRSP
There are estate conservation opportunities, the Home Buyer's Plan, the Lifelong Learning Plan, strategies to shelter assets vulnerable to student loans, methods to increase cash flow from social benefits. A playful and succinct overview.

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Tax strategies
Maintaining Tax Regularity
That frantic last minute flurry is not tax planning
Plus a "clip and save or send to students section"

Ten Timely Tax Tips
Year end strategies

Tax avoidance as winter sport
More year end strategies

Rapine & Pillage Make Good
Charitable tax planning: the stock advantage

More on charitable tax strategies
Even simple cash provides a better kick than other deductions.

US Tax Filing Information
For the dual citizens among us, from local accountant Paul Michel Simard.

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Editorials
Big box, boutique, . . . or the corner store?
Financial advisors rationalized, downsized, and outsized.

On Suits, Uppity N*****s, and High Net Worth White Guys

Vehicles passing cyclists, the Greggorian Lineal Scale

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