Who We Serve

Pre-retirees and Retirees

You may have spent your working life accumulating wealth. Now you are getting ready to move to the next phase. This will involve a fundamental change in how you view and manage your wealth. While looking at ways to increase it, you are now also looking at ways to protect it to maintain your lifestyle and leave a legacy. The next stage of your life will be different.

The focus has moved from saving to growing, protecting, and enjoying your wealth.

We can help you address several realities:

• You may live longer than you expect, and maintaining your lifestyle could become a challenge.
• Managing your tax bill is even more critical to protecting your assets over time.
• The strategies for creating a tax-efficient, life-long income are different.
• Your ability to leave a legacy depends on a well-thought-out plan.

We are here to listen and help you look forward to a long and comfortable retirement.

Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

We work with business owners and entrepreneurs who have spent years and even lifetimes building their business. Whether you are just starting out or have an established business, we can help you maintain your lifestyle now and throughout your retirement. Building wealth goes beyond running a strong balance sheet and showing profits each year. A key to enjoying the results of your hard work is to build wealth inside and outside your business.

Building wealth goes beyond running a strong balance sheet and showing profits each year. A key to enjoying the results of your hard work is to build wealth inside and outside your business.

We can guide you in creating:

• a succession plan to help ensure you get the return on your life investment you deserve
• a holding company, a life insurance policy, and other tools to limit your tax liability
• a well-diversified investment portfolio outside the business that can continue to generate income long after you have sold or moved on from your life as a business owner

As fellow business owners, we understand your needs and are here to help.

Young Professionals and Wealth Builders

In addition to serving clients who are already retired or approaching retirement, our team also works with high-earning professionals in their 30s and 40s to help them build their wealth. We enjoy providing guidance and advice for people who have the potential to grow their wealth, and share it with the next generation or causes they are passionate about.

We’ll help you feel confident in how you enjoy your money today — and create a personalized plan showing you that you’re taking the right steps to be financially secure tomorrow.

We create detailed plans designed to fit your needs at the wealth accumulation stage, whether you are self-employed or building a professional career.

We’re here to assist you with:

• identification and clarification of your goals so you can prioritize your financial resources.
• direction on home purchases or refinances.
• financial planning advice for new parents, helping you understand government benefits for maternity/parental leave, education savings, and life insurance.
• career advice, helping you evaluate employer benefit packages, pensions, bonus planning, changing employers, and more.
• strategies to protect your income so you can always provide for your family.
• retirement savings projections, TFSA and RRSP strategies for the long-term, and estimating your government benefits in retirement.
• practical advice on how to use your inheritance wisely and tax-efficiently.
• guidance on your investment portfolio and oversight for your accounts.

Families

Our role in guiding families is twofold: first, to guide clients to the most tax-advantaged ways to pass along wealth that match their current goals; and, second, to help the next generation understand the impact of sudden-wealth events (such as inheritances) and how to prepare for them in advance.

We believe that strong communication between different generations is critical because as the values and goals of all members are heard, conversation among them becomes easier. By taking the time first to ask questions in a comfortable environment, we learn about your life goals and your family dynamics. We then customize an investment plan that confirms where you are financially and where you want to go.

An estate plan follows that gives details of what you wish to leave behind, how you want it to impact your children’s and grandchildren’s lives, and how much flexibility you want in the way they use your legacy. Our careful and ongoing management of your family’s wealth will help family members to focus on their life goals knowing their wealth management needs are in good hands.

Healthcare Professionals

Given your commitment to the well-being of your patients and staying current with medical advancements, you may not have time to focus on your present and future wealth management needs.

The complexity of your investment and other wealth-related decisions grow with your practice. For example, you may be approached with random investment opportunities offering potentially attractive benefits. Yet, you feel they are complicated and outside your comfort zone. We can help you stay on track with wealth management strategies and investment opportunities that are in line with your risk tolerance while offering the potential for steady investment returns.

We offer practical investment and tax management insights that are relevant to your needs as a medical professional. For example, we can help you minimize your tax liability on active business income by setting up a Canadian controlled private corporation on your behalf. And we will work with you in other ways (including creating a corporate life insurance policy on your behalf) to help you make the most of deductions and credits that can save you money.

Women, Wealth & Well-being

Women’s financial well-being is often shaped by living longer, retiring earlier, pay disparity, and time out of the workforce as primary caregivers for children and aging parents. This means that the average woman will earn and invest less than a man over the long-term and spend more time in retirement years.

Together, we can create a financial plan that truly considers your needs, clarifies your goals, and explores all your “what if” questions. This includes factoring in the long-term costs of healthcare, living independently, evolving family dynamics, and proper estate planning.

Whether you’re looking to grow or protect your wealth, we understand it’s not just about investment returns—real financial advice is about you and how your money can provide security in your life and the lives of those you care about, today and tomorrow.