It is estimated that Canada’s baby boomers and early Gen Xers will inherit $1 trillion over the coming 20 years in a monumental transfer of wealth. If you are one of these beneficiaries, here are 3 key considerations that will help prepare you and make it easier to tackle the difficult decisions that you will need to make about your inheritance.
Women have entered the Canadian workforce in significant numbers over the past decade. In fact, Canadian wealth is increasingly in the hands of women, and this trend is expected to continue over the next decade.
This new face of wealth brings about important implications for women, financial advisors, and the financial industry alike—women need to “re-think” what financial wellness means to them personally, and the financial industry will have to “re-think” how it addresses potential differing needs of women to ensure that there is a clear understanding of the needs, wants, challenges and opportunities faced by female investors.
As financially independent women create and manage more wealth, it is also important for them and their financial advisors to understand that financial independence is not the same as financial wellness. This article explains what financial wellness is and how you can improve your own or that of your female clients.
Is your money working for you, or are you working for your money? While the latter is all too common, there are many ways in which you can achieve financial freedom and gain the ever-lusted after luxury of more time by engaging in inactive income streams where the money earned requires little work, or no active involvement to generate ongoing capital. In this article, Bloom Investment Counsel takes you through interest income.
While the charitable giving space is often seen as a community open only to the ultra-wealthy or dominated by men, the philanthropic community is constantly evolving.
It is an invitation to women and minorities to embark on charity on their own terms—and of their own accord.
Are you looking to work with an independent investment manager, one who has the skills and expertise to look after your or your family’s investments and manage them for you? Many people are embarrassed or even scared to talk about wealth management with an investment manager—but working with a financial professional, or even simply setting up an introductory call to speak with someone, could help ease your financial stress.
The key is to start talking… but there are a myriad of options and working out which manager is the best fit for you can be daunting. Here are questions you should ask before, during and after your introductory investment consultation with a manager to help you make this important decision.