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Plan Your Retirement with a RRIF or Annuity or a Combination of Both

There are two main choices in planning your retirement: a Life Annuity or a Registered Retirement Income Fund (RRIF) With[…]

People are living longer. Half of men reaching 65 can expect to live to age 85 or longer and half[…]

An interesting article from Sun Life explaining the virtue of a life annuity as guaranteed income. But there should be no[…]

Most people today envision a comfortable style of living once they have retired. But the generation of workers that built[…]

RRIF: Changes to the RRIF minimum withdrawal amounts are designed to let you preserve more of your retirement savings and[…]

My comments on “Saving enough isn’t the only worry in retirement” by Craig Sebastiano | May 15, 2014 from Benefits Canada. This[…]

My comments on a recent article in the Toronto Star “How living longer can hurt your retirement planning” by Moshe A.[…]

My comments on “Should your life expectancy be part of your financial planning?” by Garry Marr of the Financial Post. From[…]

As you decide what to do about your retirement income, I thought that I would bring up some ideas that others[…]

Are you waiting until you are not physically capable of enjoying your savings? Or mentally able? By waiting a year,[…]