Estate & Succession Planning

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Weekly Strategy Perspectives: Just the FAQs

Barely 11 weeks into the new year and investors’ psyches are already rubbed raw from the quantity of big-picture, arc-bending issues they’ve faced....

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You need a succession plan for your management team – not just for yourself

For business owners, succession planning is often focused on transition – the next chapter of your life. But there’s another side that’s just as critical: continuity....

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Retirement ready – from countdown to drawdown

You’ve likely spent decades saving and planning for retirement, but do you have a plan for how to tap into your hard-earned savings? Potentially not. Too many Canadians overlook this critical step in retirement planning: withdrawing savings......

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Inheriting family wealth: How to prepare

For many high-net-worth individuals with children, amassing wealth may be the easy part; successfully passing down that wealth to their children is where things can get difficult......

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The smart investor’s guide to reducing taxes and growing wealth

A smart tax plan doesn’t just maximize your registered accounts, it structures your finances in a way that optimizes every dollar you earn on the road to retirement – and beyond......

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How to use life insurance to keep your business growing

Entrepreneurship is supposed to be a thrilling experience filled with hope, opportunity and, of course, hard, painstaking work. The last thing anyone wants to think about is what might happen to a budding business if a founder or critical employee......

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Alternative Minimum Tax

First introduced in 1986, the Alternative Minimum  Tax (“AMT”) is a parallel tax calculation for  individuals (and many trusts) which calculates  an alternate taxable income that allows fewer  deductions, exemptions, and tax credits than under  the o...

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Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption demystified: Strategies for maximizing your gains

It’s no secret that most business owners could spend more time thinking about succession and tax planning, but there’s a $1.25-million reason to think about it – and that figure will continue to rise....

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5 estate planning challenges for blended families (and how to solve them)

When someone mentions the term “blended families,” an image of The Brady Bunch may flash through the average person’s head. However, the reality is never that straightforward, and neither is building an estate plan for a blended family....

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