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With more than 3,000 tax treaties in force around the world, tax treaties represent the cornerstone of the international tax regime. A tax treaty, also referred to as a “convention” or “agreement,” is a binding legal agreement between two or more sovereign territorial jurisdictions to provide relief or benefits to the residents/nationals of the treaty signatory jurisdictions (usually countries, but sometimes a specific territorial part of a larger country, such as Hong Kong).
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Tax Planning Strategies
Since Canada represents only a small portion of the world’s capitalization, it may make sense to include some foreign investments in your portfolio. However, it is important to understand Canadian and other foreign tax implications of owning investments outside of Canada.
Knowing how tax rules affect your investments is essential to maximizing your after-tax return. In addition, keeping up to date on changes to the tax rules ensures that you take advantage of all the tax savings available to Canadian-resident individuals. This article provides an overview of select strategies to assist you in reducing your tax bill.
Retirement Planning
Managing Your Wealth
Make better investment choices by understanding and reducing bias. BMO Wealth Management provides insights and strategies around wealth planning and financial decisions to better prepare you for a confident financial future.
This is a helpful resource summarizing important tax, retirement and estate planning information.
Estate & Succession Planning
This is designed to help your family, executor (referred to as a “liquidator” in Quebec), or Power of Attorney for Property (referred to as a “mandatory” in Quebec) locate all of your important documents and other information needed to administer your estate or act as your Power of Attorney for Property
Research
Our goal is to be a leader in investment research, providing investors with insight and actionable money-making investment ideas.
Rates Scenario, covering currencies and markets outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Economic & Market Updates
The Global Equity Weekly provides timely analysis of major economic trends, and how they impact stocks and financial markets more broadly. The latest economic data, interest rate moves and earnings trends all drive the performance of your portfolio. In addition to analysis from the Economics team, this report offers a set of charts and tables to track market performance.
Strategic commentary and an overview of financial markets.
Education & Knowledge
Other
This examines the detrimental effects of negative returns at the beginning of retirement, as retirees withdraw from their capital; in turn, causing erosion of retirement savings.
Words from rock icon, and ‘baby boomer,’ David Bowie, heed an important reminder to those contemplating the later stages of life – “As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?” The relevance of this wisdom can’t be overemphasized as baby boomers, individuals born between 1946 and 1964, begin to realize that, in fact, “time may not be on their side” and they start entering the stage of life where the risks of critical illness, incapacity and death increase. Implementing a proactive approach to protecting your wealth, health and property requires some diligence and planning, but the good news is that your BMO Nesbitt Burns Investment Advisor can help
This article provides an overview of the information and tools available through Gateway. A key feature of Gateway is the ability to access your BMO Nesbitt Burns account statements and trade confirmations electronically by signing up for eDocuments.