As you and your spouse celebrate Valentine’s Day over a candle-lit dinner, you may want to avoid romance-killing topics like, “Honey, let’s talk about our financial future.” But you really should have that conversation sooner rather than later to keep your relationship on a healthy footing.
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Newspaper serving the African American community of British Columbia, published in Vancouver, B.C.Archive | Finance
The Pros and Cons of Fixed Income
Posted on 24 January 2012.
The first step to take in building the fixed-income portion of your portfolio is to filterer out investments that aren’t suitable for you. Factor in your goals, income needs, and time horizon.
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Women and personal finances
Posted on 11 January 2012.
Women increasingly marry later, have fewer children or remain childless, yet still are more likely to live in poverty, particularly single-mother families.
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Spousal Loans
Posted on 06 January 2012.
Canada has a graduated income tax system in which not every dollar of one’s income is treated equally. For example, an individual earning $80,000 of income pays 0% tax on their 10,000th dollar of income, 20.06% tax on their 30,000th dollar of income and 32.5% on their 80,000th dollar of income.
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Keeping the Peace from the Grave
Posted on 28 December 2011.
No one wants to cause a war within their family as their legacy. The reality is, however, that family harmony can suffer when wealth is transferred to the next generation. Rifts among siblings and between family members and charities can last for decades or lifetimes.
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Finding your lost money
Posted on 05 December 2011.
State treasuries and other government agencies are sitting on more than $33 billion in unclaimed assets. And that doesn’t include billions of dollars in unredeemed U.S. savings and treasury bonds, unclaimed pensions and income tax refunds returned to the IRS as undeliverable.
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Managing Risk with Dividends
Posted on 29 November 2011.
Dividend-paying companies, therefore, offer you both the opportunity for growth in the form of increased share price and income in the form of dividends. Typically, the board of directors of a dividend-paying company will attempt to increase their dividends every year at the same rate.
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Money Talk Financial Windfalls
Posted on 23 November 2011.
Although it is quite rare to win a substantial amount of money in a lottery, many of the same elements are present when one receives a large inheritance. On the surface, one may think that large inheritances are equally as rare but given the current real estate values in the Greater Vancouver
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Financial planners not just for the wealthy
Posted on 08 November 2011.
Many types of professionals call themselves financial planners, but training and specialization vary widely – some are essentially salespeople. Common designations include: Certified Financial Planner, Certified Financial Consultant, Certified Public Accountant/Personal Financial Specialist and NAPFA-Registered Financial Advisor, but the list goes on.
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RESP Redemptions
Posted on 02 November 2011.
In today’s increasingly competitive work force, a post secondary education has become a progressively more important factor in determining one’s career path.
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