Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Friday, January 14, 2022,
https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/topics/rrsps-related-plans/what-home-buyers-plan/participate-home-buyers-plan.html#first-timehomebuyerThe Home Buyers' Plan (HBP) is a program that allows you to withdraw funds from your Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) to buy or build a qualifying home for yourself or for a related person with a disability. The HBP allows you to pay back the withdrawn funds within a 15-year period.
You can withdraw funds from more tha...
Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Tuesday, January 23, 2018,
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/10-bad-money-habits-break-143700769.htmlKathleen Elkins | December 29, 2017If you want to get rich in 2018, try taking advice from those who have already done it. There are certain wealth-building habits that successful people swear by. And it's just as important to avoid toxic behaviors that can derail your finances.
If you're looking to make major financial strides in 2018, start by ditching these costly habits.
1. Making late payments
There's more to late pa...
Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Wednesday, October 25, 2017,
https://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2017/10/02/your-wealth-may-be-hiding-in-plain-sight-vaz-oxlade.htmlGail Vaz-Oxlade | October 2, 2017
I once met a woman who was a little frustrated with her own good sense. “It’s so hard to see my friends and co-workers going on trips, buying new cars and eating out all the time — and not want that stuff too,” she said.
This woman was completely honest about how much she struggled with the idea of keeping up with the Joneses.
“My next d...
Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Wednesday, October 25, 2017,
https://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2017/10/02/your-wealth-may-be-hiding-in-plain-sight-vaz-oxlade.htmlGail Vaz-Oxlade | October 2, 2017
I once met a woman who was a little frustrated with her own good sense. “It’s so hard to see my friends and co-workers going on trips, buying new cars and eating out all the time — and not want that stuff too,” she said.
This woman was completely honest about how much she struggled with the idea of keeping up with the Joneses.
“My next d...
Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Tuesday, February 21, 2017,
http://goldengirlfinance.com/inspiration/?post_id=1970Golden Girl Finance | August 29, 2013
Forget blind luck - you have the power to ensure you make long-term progress each and every day...month...year...
You go to work, collect an income, and pay your bills on time. You diligently send off checks for your long-term obligations. You pay off your credit card minimum (and more) every month. And then a new month begins…and you do it all over again. That’s good money management, right?
Not so f...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Monday, November 14, 2016,
http://www.bnn.ca/personal-investor-what-you-should-know-before-making-a-tfsa-contribution-1.607444
Dale Jackson | November 14, 2016Canadians love their tax free savings accounts. And why not? The TFSA allows you to hold just about any kind of investment and you are never taxed on the gains.
Since the TFSA was first introduced in 2008, more than 12 million accounts have been opened totaling more than $120 billion in assets. Some people contribute what they can, some contribute the maximum and s...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Friday, June 17, 2016,
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2016/6/6/How-a-tsunami-of-inheritances-could-ease-Canadas-housing-market-pain.aspxGreg Bonnell | June 6, 2016
A record wave of inheritance will transfer billions in wealth over the next decade, taking some of the sting out of the real estate market for young Canadians, CIBC’s deputy chief economist said Monday.
In his report “The Looming Bequest Boom – What Should We Expect?”, Benjamin Tal argues more than $750 billion will be transferred to Canadians between the ...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Tuesday, March 22, 2016,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/partners/advretirementplanning/i-want-to-retire-in-10-years-how-do-i-get-there/Mary Gooderham | June 30, 2015
Many investors find it hard to think ahead to the day when they will leave work and their steady paycheque. In the final decade before retirement, however, reality often sets in, focusing their attention and often bringing them to financial professionals.
For an advisor facing a client who expresses a desire to retire in 10 years, it’s time to help peopl...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Monday, July 6, 2015,
http://cawidgets.morningstar.ca/ArticleTemplate/ArticleGL.aspx?id=654201&culture=en-CAGail Bebee |July 2, 2014
Welcoming a new baby into the family is a fundamental facet of the human experience. Beyond the celebration of this wondrous and life-altering event lie many practical consequences. Your new bundle of joy is a human being that will require nurturing for the next 20 years or more.
That nurturing comes with a hefty price tag. A 2013 Fraser Institute report pegged the annual cost to raise...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Wednesday, June 24, 2015,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/retirement-rrsps/rrsp-bashers-heres-how-the-math-really-works/article17034733/John Heinzl |February 21, 2014
After the weather, the thing Canadians love to complain about the most is the tax they pay on RRSP withdrawals.
Well, time to stop grumbling. It may seem like you’re getting hosed on your registered retirement savings plan withdrawals, but you’re just paying the government the tax you initially deferred, plus the growth o...
Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Monday, June 8, 2015,
http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/health/cancer-survivors-income-falls-5k-a-year-statscan-finds-1.2782380CBC News | September 30, 2014
Cancer survivors see a $5,000 drop in income, on average, a year after their diagnosis, according to a new report by Statistics Canada.
Tuesday's report linked census, cancer registry and vital statistics databases with personal income tax records to evaluate the effects of cancer on employment status and earnings.
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Tuesday, April 7, 2015,
http://goldengirlfinance.com/inspiration/?post_id=1921Lena Rizkallah | August 15, 2013
My teenaged nieces came to visit me in New York a few weeks ago. Besides spending three hours agonizing over what color “cheeksters” to buy at Pink, waiting another 45 minutes for them to stand in line to try on ONE tank top at H&M, and then rounding out the rest of the day with more, um, shopping (i.e. THEM going through racks of midriff-baring tops and teeny ’distressed’ jean shorts, ME sitting in...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Wednesday, December 3, 2014,
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/your-money/stocks-and-bonds/the-best-investment-strategy-getting-out-of-our-own-way.html?_r=1Carl Richards | March 3, 2014
We’re still making the same old mistake of buying investments when prices are high and selling them once their prices have fallen.
I had hoped things had changed, I really did. But Morningstar’s latest Investor Returns data says otherwise. More than 10 years after I first started thinking about this data, the behavior gap still exists. ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Monday, August 18, 2014,
http://www.moneysense.ca/columns/catch-up-to-unused-rrsp-contribution-roomStefania Di Verdi | April 23, 2013
By now many Canadians have received
their government issued tax refund cheques in the mail, the eager beavers have
anyway. The rest have until April 30 to file their 2013 income tax return
without fear of penalty.
The prospect of getting money back
is just too good for this eager beaver so I file early every year. I case
you’re wondering, I won’t be blowing my tax refund on a shoppin...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Tuesday, March 4, 2014,
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2013/9/11/Canadians-in-top-1-earn-7-times-national-median-Survey.aspxBill Curry | September 11, 2013Canadians in the top one percent are
paid more than $191,000 a year according to the National Household Survey,
which takes a closer look at how governments take from the rich and give to the
poor.
The make-up of the
one percent club is overwhelmingly male, most-likely over the age of 45 and
tends to work in management jobs. Canada's top earners are also more
likely to m...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Wednesday, May 29, 2013,
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2013/5/22/One-third-of-households-living-paycheque-to-paycheque.aspxBertrand Marotte | May 22, 2013
One-third of Canadian households over the past year never or almost never had enough money left over after paying essential expenses, says a new report.
A survey conducted for the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada indicates that 29 percent - or three in 10 - households found it difficult to sock away any money once key bills were paid.
The poll also shows t...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Sunday, September 18, 2011,
http://business.financialpost.com/2011/06/20/canadians-debt-still-high-but-there-is-some-good-news-to-bank/
Eric Lam
| June 20, 2011
So the latest household accounts data released Monday surprised
exactly no one showing Canadian debt-to-income ratios at a new record
high of 147.3% in the first quarter of 2011, but here are a few good
things (and one not so good) to take away from the Statistics Canada
report.
Canadians are slowing down their borrowing
Growth in the most common consu...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Wednesday, May 25, 2011,
http://www.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20101216/GICESTNICK1216ATL
Thursday, December 16, 2010 |TIM CESTNICK
I should have studied psychology in university. It might have been
helpful in understanding people - especially my wife. I will pay $50 for
a $30 item that I really need, but she'll pay $30 for a $50 item she
doesn't need, just because it's on sale. Where I have exactly seven
items in the bathroom that belong to me (toothbrush, toothpaste, dental
floss, razor, shav...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Tuesday, March 1, 2011,
http://www.bnn.ca/News/2011/2/4/Debt-reduction-versus-RRSP-contributions.aspxDale Jackson, BNN.ca staff for The Globe and Mail | February 4, 2011
Canadians are another RRSP season older – and deeper in debt.
In 2010 we owed $1.48 for every dollar we earned, up from $1.45 the
year before. According to the Ottawa-based Vanier Institute of the
Family we’ve climbed high on the debt mountain: In 1990, the figure was
90 cents.
What’s worse, these figures tell only part of the deb...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Friday, April 30, 2010,
https://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/cnw/20100118/C9032
News from Canada NewsWire
TORONTO, Jan. 18 /CNW/ - Nearly all Canadians (90 per cent) feel they will have enough income to cover their necessities in retirement but only one-in-four Canadians (25 per cent) feel they will have enough money to fulfill their retirement dreams, according to the 20th Annual RBC RRSP Poll.
The poll found that most retired Canadians (75 per cent) didn't know how much they spent in their fir...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Thursday, March 18, 2010,
Janet McFarland, The Globe and Mail - March 18, 2010
Canadians need to save between 10 percent and 21 percent of their pretax incomes each year - if they save consistently for 35 years - to have comfortable retirement incomes, according to a new report by former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge.
The report says many Canadians are unaware of the high savings levels they need for their retirement years, and may believe they are saving adequately when they are not.
The report, co-author...
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Posted by Jackelyn Ford on Wednesday, January 27, 2010,
http://en.chatelaine.com/english/moneymavens/article.jsp?content=20081203_122736_19592&page=2
15 tips to save money
Easy ways to save money everyday and live on the cheap without sacrifice
By Marlene Rego
Shop (and sell) online
Craigslist.org, ebay.ca, and Kijiji.ca are all great resources for online purchases big or small. Plus, they're a great way to find unique gifts and marked down big ticket items. There are some things to keep in mind – always buy from trustworthy, reputable sellers an...
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