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The MoneySense Masthead

EDITORIAL VP MoneySense: Matt Hands Editor in Chief: Lisa Hannam Managing Editor: Jaclyn Law Senior Editor: Justin Dallaire (on...

The MoneySense Masthead
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Retired Money

How retired parents can use the FHSA to help their adult children

Canada’s new first home savings account nicely complements earlier real estate programs. Retirees with grown adult children should take...

How retired parents can use the FHSA to help their adult children
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Investing

Making sense of the markets this week: March 19, 2023

Banks collapse, U.S. inflation puts the Fed in a tight spot, put your money where your mouth is with...

Making sense of the markets this week: March 19, 2023
Playing on the words "all-weather" a man is walking outside in the snow, fully dressed and ready for the weather.

Retired Money

Are ETFs a good investment for an all-weather portfolio?

Are ETFs a good investment for an all-weather portfolio?
A man in a suit, smiles as he's thinking to retire soon. He's also wondering what inflation will do to his savings.

Retired Money

Inflation and investments: Heads up if you’re retired or retiring soon

How will inflation affect your investments? Experts dissect what the rising cost of living means for retirees and those...

Inflation and investments: Heads up if you’re retired or retiring soon
A couple contributing to their RRSPs just after the New Year's countdown

TFSAs

Why contributing to a TFSA is a good resolution

Why a TFSA should be your top goal for 2023 and how it stacks up against RRSPs as a...

Why contributing to a TFSA is a good resolution
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Retired Money

What is direct indexing? Should you build your own index?

If you’re wealthy enough to be retired or semi-retired, you’re probably well positioned to consider a hybrid investing strategy...

What is direct indexing? Should you build your own index?
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Retired Money

Reading the “Annual Returns of Key Asset Classes”—what it means for Canadian investors

Our Retired Money columnist talks of the importance and lessons investors can glean from Franklin Templeton’s charts of Annual Returns of...

Reading the “Annual Returns of Key Asset Classes”—what it means for Canadian investors
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Investing

Making sense of the markets this week: December 11, 2022

What’s up with the Bank of Canada recent interest rate hike? (Are we there yet?) Also, bonds are back...

Making sense of the markets this week: December 11, 2022