by Rona Birenbaum BAS CFP®, CHFS | Mar 21, 2017 | In the News
The relative merits of RRSP versus corporate investing depend on the type of income the investment itself generates. Download Article (PDF) >
by Rona Birenbaum BAS CFP®, CHFS | Feb 23, 2017 | All About Investing, Musings, We Think You Might Enjoy...
Lucky Americans – they pay much lower investment advisory fees than we do in Canada. Or so many people think … but is it true? With the new CRM2 legislation showing investors how much you pay for advice, it’s considerably easier to do a cross-border comparison. Let’s...
by Rona Birenbaum BAS CFP®, CHFS | Feb 16, 2017 | All About Investing, Cash Flow Concerns, Risk Management, We Think You Might Enjoy...
Bidding wars are a fact of life when waging the buying war for Toronto real estate. Bully offers and condition-free offers seem to be one of the only tickets to a successful bid. Sellers have discovered that a mild staging is sufficient to generate competition for...
by Rona Birenbaum BAS CFP®, CHFS | Feb 12, 2017 | All About Investing, We Think You Might Enjoy...
I’ve always advised clients to approach financial news as interesting, but not reliable as an investment strategy source. Ben Carlson, author of the A Wealth of Common Sense blog, recently did a great job outlining how to read financial news headlines. I couldn’t...
by Rona Birenbaum BAS CFP®, CHFS | Jan 24, 2017 | All About Investing
You might think it’s easy to know whether your investments are doing well. And that it will be easier yet, post-CRM2, now that your investment professionals are required to report on how well you did and what fees you paid. But alas, this isn’t quite true. There are...
