Financial TIPs

If you're retired, a market crash is cause for concern. Here are 4 things you can do to help make positive financial decisions in the wake of a market downturn.

The market’s negative response to a health crisis is nothing new. How will coronavirus impact the market and your personal finances?

So much of investing is beyond our control (picking stock prices, timing market movements and so on), it’s nice to know that there are still a number of “power tools” we can employ to potentially enhance your bottom line. Tax-loss harvesting is is the equivalent of turning your financial lemons into lemonade by converting market downturns into tangible tax savings. A successful strategy lowers your tax bill, without substantially altering or impacting your long-term investment outcomes.

The coronavirus impact on the global economy has been front page news all week.Instead of expending valuable energy on perennial uncertainties, we suggest that a more practical approach to managing your portfolio is to optimize the components that are more readily within your control - the fixed income and equity portions alike.

As the viral news has spread, so too has financial uncertainty. What’s going to happen next? Will it infect our economy?

Is purchasing an annuity a smart or stupid investment for your financial future? Read on to learn more about the pros and cons of annuities.