If your mental health or emotional well-being has been affected by the pandemic, it’s important to recognize your needs and speak up about them to someone at work and ask for it sooner rather than later, don’t wait until you’ve reached your breaking point.
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We are pleased to announce that Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has made a significant reduction in the management fees on their mutual funds. The fee reduction is across all funds that are offered in Canada.The average savings in management fees is 9.85% across all the funds. The largest cut was in the DFA Canadian Core …
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[siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Video”][/siteorigin_widget] Not all Canadians have the time or the desire to manage their finances. Often that responsibility is delegated to a financial professional – like us. It’s our job to sweat the hard stuff and keep you focussed on the future. As fee-based advisors we sit on the same side of the table as …
The past six months have proved to be very emotional times for all of us. The pandemic has brought on fear and uncertainty into what the short term may bring in our lives. Some of us are dealing with job loss, decreased income, or a drop-in value to our retirement savings. That is a lot …
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While we all know sunscreen is an important tool when it comes to sun protection, some of us neglect to wear it. Whether it be for aesthetic reasons, laziness or forgetfulness – some days it just doesn’t happen. With these hot, hot summer days we’ve been experiencing and the scorching sun it is more important …
AWealthOfCommonSense.com: “Stock market valuations may not make sense to a lot of people right now but valuations often don’t matter much in the short run. Take a look at the average one-year returns for the S&P 500 from various starting CAPE ratios going back to 1926: Lower than average valuations show substantially higher average returns …
Typically in the summer we take every opportunity for travel. However with the pandemic we are to proceed with caution. The following article looks at how safe it is to travel and what could be some alternatives other than international travel.
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