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Live for Today or Save for Tomorrow? Finding Your Financial Balance

01.22.2026 // Financial Planning With Purpose
As a new year begins, many of us are setting goals, mapping out p...
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Understanding and Managing Investment Risks

04.29.2025 // Financial Planning With Purpose
In my experience, the best investors are the ones who take the ti...
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Are you rich or wealthy Knowing the difference could change your life

11.01.2024 // Personal Finance
We often hear the terms rich and wealthy used interchangeably, bu...
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30 Lessons in my 30 Years as a Wealth Advisor

30 Lessons in my 30 Years as a Wealth Advisor

06.25.2024 // Financial Planning With Purpose
Thirty years! I can’t believe it. The adage, time flies whe...
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Doing Empty Nesting Right

Doing Empty Nesting Right

05.01.2024 // Financial Planning With Purpose
We work with our clients long term, advising them through multipl...
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Ten Questions to Ask When Hiring a New Advisor

Ten Questions to Ask When Hiring a New Advisor

02.08.2024 // Financial Planning With Purpose
Ten Questions to Ask When Hiring a New Advisor Finding the right ...
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Helping Seniors Downsize

Helping Seniors Downsize

09.20.2023 // Financial Planning With Purpose
While the idea of living out your retirement years at home may be...
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Planning For Your Later Years

Planning For Your Later Years

08.15.2023 // Financial Planning With Purpose
Preparing for your later years Most people romanticize their reti...
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With the collapse of SVB, how safe are your investments?

03.22.2023 // Financial Planning With Purpose
With the collapse of SVB, how safe are your investments? Seems li...
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Why to consider High Interest Savings Account (HISA) ETFs

10.31.2022 // Financial Planning With Purpose
By: Mark Shimkovitz With all the market uncertainty lately, a lot...
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Dying Without a Will: What Happens Next?

05.12.2022 // Insurance and Estate Planning
By Paula Lester, Senior Trust Advisor We all know that having a W...
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The Importance of Staying True to Your Plan

The Importance of Staying True to Your Plan

01.24.2022 // Financial Planning With Purpose
By: Mark Shimkovitz The markets are up! The markets are down! Emo...
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5 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Tax Bill (Before the end of the Year)

5 Easy Ways to Reduce Your Tax Bill (Before the end of the Year)

12.15.2021 // Budgeting
By: Carolina da Silva Make an RRSP Contribution Contributing to...
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Saving for Your Kids Education

Saving for Your Kids Education

10.08.2021 // Financial Planning With Purpose
By: Carolina da Silva There are few prouder moments as a parent t...
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What to Expect When You’re Expecting – The Money Edition

What to Expect When You’re Expecting – The Money Edition

09.17.2021 // Family Marriage Divorce
By: Carolina DaSilva As part of the Living Richer Wealth Manageme...
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Getting married? Here are five financial "to-do’s" before you tie the knot

Getting married? Here are five financial "to-do’s" before you tie the knot

09.04.2021 // Family Marriage Divorce
By: Mark Shimkovitz Getting married is an exciting milestone and ...
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What learning to make pizza can teach you about investing!

What learning to make pizza can teach you about investing!

07.26.2021 // Personal Finance
By: Mark Shimkovitz In March I bought an outdoor pizza oven. I lo...
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How to make good decisions when life throws you a curveball

06.02.2021 // Financial Planning With Purpose
No matter how much we plan for things, life inevitably tosses us ...
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Are you too young for insurance?

05.03.2021 // Insurance and Estate Planning
In my latest Living Richer podcast, I began a three-part series t...
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UNDERSTANDING REGISTERED ACCOUNTS

03.19.2021 // Personal Finance
Tax-free, tax-deferred, tax-sheltered, group plans, RRSP, TFSA, R...
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The Benefits of Having a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)

02.12.2021 // Personal Finance
This year you have until Monday, March 1 to make an RRSP contribu...
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The financial implications of divorce

01.27.2021 // Family Marriage Divorce
Are you going through or considering a divorce? This difficult ti...
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Ten resolutions to improve your fiscal health

01.06.2021 // Financial Planning With Purpose

By: Mark Shimkovitz

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Giving Meaning to Your Means

12.10.2020 // Financial Planning With Purpose
What does it mean to live a richer life? Spoiler alert: the purs...
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Impacts of COVID 19 on Insurance

05.29.2020 // Insurance and Estate Planning

By: Mark Shimkovitz and Greg Jizmejian

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Understanding why you need a Power of Attorney

04.30.2020 // Insurance and Estate Planning

By: Mark Shimkovitz with Janet Mason, VP, Sr. Trusts and Estates Counsel at Raymond James

A Power of Attorney is a legal document in which you give someone you trust....

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Well I didnt plan for THIS

04.03.2020 // Financial Planning With Purpose
By: Vince Murton, VP Longevity Planning
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Six Things You May Not Know About RRSP But Should

02.10.2020 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

We’re now a month into 2020 and if you’ve set some intentions – whether to exercise more, eat healthier, travel or save money

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Eight Important Financial Actions to Take Before 2020

11.04.2019 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

When the calendar page turns to November, it seems the holiday season begins.

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How we’ve integrated coaching into our financial planning process

09.24.2019 // Financial Planning With Purpose

By: Robin Shimkovitz

I was never good with numbers. I need a calculator for simple arithmetic.

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Five Tips for Getting Started on your Financial Journey

08.27.2019 // Financial Planning With Purpose

By: Mark Shimkovitz

If you’ve listened to my podcast you may remember that my wife Robin and I have three kids.

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Money and Relationships: What’s all the Fighting About?

07.18.2019 // Family Marriage Divorce

By: Mark Shimkovitz

Countless studies have shown that the number one stressor in marriage is money...

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Lessons from my mentor, Warren Buffett

04.26.2019 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

Chances are you have heard of Warren Buffett. You probably know that he's the founder of Berkshire ...

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The four best ways to use your tax refund

04.24.2019 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

According to Statistics Canada, almost seven million people were issued tax refunds for 2018 in the period to April 1.

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Five steps to get out of Debt

03.28.2019 // Budgeting

By: Mark Shimkovitz

On average, Canadians are indebted at 170 per cent of their disposable income—meaning that for every ...

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Understanding Registered Accounts

02.28.2019 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

Tax-free, tax-deferred, tax-sheltered, group plans, RRSP, TFSA, RESP, RRIF and the list goes on.

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Grow your wealth AND spend more freely - in 5 easy steps

02.06.2019 // Budgeting

By: Mark Shimkovitz

Having a budget is one of the most effective strategies you can put in place to build your wealth.

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My top financial to-do’s before 2019

12.13.2018 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

With parties, gift buying, baking and holiday prep, December seems to come and go in the blink of an eye.

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Could you qualify for a disability tax credit?

11.26.2018 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

The disability tax certificate (DTC) is a non-refundable tax credit that helps people with disabilities and the people ...

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The Benefits Of Donating Securities To Charity

10.23.2018 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

As the end of the year approaches, many Canadians will think about making donations to charity in order to get the tax ...

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Tax-Loss Selling

10.05.2018 // Personal Finance

By: Mark Shimkovitz

We often hear, "it's not what you make, it's what you keep". And part of maximizing your long-term returns ...

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Why budgeting is like a visit to the dentist

08.24.2018 // Budgeting

By: Mark Shimkovitz

If given the choice to do a budget or have dental work done, many people would be on their way to the way to the dentist’s chair faster than you can say novocaine.

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Focus On Your Benchmark... Not Theirs

07.18.2018 // Financial Planning With Purpose

By: Mark Shimkovitz

We live in the 24 hour news cycle. Bored with what you're watching? No worries, there's 499 more channels vying for ...

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Communication is key when it comes to financial matters

06.14.2018 // Family Marriage Divorce

By: Mark Shimkovitz

Before my wife and I renovated our home, we were warned it could be the cause of some major marital tension.

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Keeping your financial future on track during life transitions

05.31.2018 // Financial Planning With Purpose

By: Mark Shimkovitz

From graduating university and starting a career; getting married, having children and making a job move; to buying ...

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Having a baby? Here are five ways to prepare financially

05.18.2018 // Family Marriage Divorce

By: Mark Shimkovitz

My financial services practice focuses on helping clients navigate life transitions while planning for their future ...

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What's your Why?

04.25.2018 // Financial Planning With Purpose

By: Mark Shimkovitz

I believe the biggest mistake people make in financial planning is starting by asking 'what'? What investments should I ...

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