https://youtu.be/b0pemMFeqWs Wealth planning doesn’t retire when you do, it just changes. Now financial life is largely about making the most of the wealth you’ve accumulated. You’ll be learning about new rules, products and strategies that involve a broad range of financial considerations. Fortunately, your expanding financial literacy doesn’t have to happen all at once. You […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgUQBuf0wQU&t=3s You may think you’ll never fall victim to phishing attacks, but new technologies are making online and phone scams more dangerous. Also, other family members could be at risk. Phishing is the umbrella term for scams that fraudsters attempt through your computer or devices. Smishing, or SMS phishing, refers to text message scams. Vishing […]
By Matthew Strauss, Senior Vice-President, Portfolio Manager & Lead – Global Equities, CI Global Asset Management. Emerging Market Equities Are Well-Placed to Outperform After two years of underperformance, there was great hope as 2023 commenced that this would be the year where emerging market equities would outperform their developed market peers. The re-opening of the […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMIrDNmMvAE&t=2s A Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) is widely acknowledged as the number one way to save for a child’s education. However, many Canadians use an RESP as the foundation and complement the plan with another investment vehicle. Why would parents or grandparents choose an additional way to invest? Usually, it’s to accumulate more savings […]
Alfred Lam, CFA, Senior Vice-President, and Head of Multi-Assets, CI Global Asset Management. Technology is disruptive. This statement is somewhat true, somewhat untrue. Since the introduction of the personal computer in the ‘80s, human beings have experienced growing exposure to technology which changes how we “normally” do things. The first-generation personal computer performed basic computation, […]
https://youtu.be/BHaAVg3Chwk A vacation property owner has always intended to hand down the property to her two children. However, she’s planning her estate and faces a challenge. Her adult daughter regularly vacations at the lakeside property, but her son lives three provinces away and is no longer interested in the property. The equal split no longer […]
Stephen Lingard, SVP, Co-Head of Multi-Asset, CIGAM Portfolio Management. Headline inflation has been the single biggest macro factor affecting financial markets over the past 18 months due to the resulting impact on global monetary policy. Central banks around the world have scurried to remove monetary accommodation by raising short-term policy rates at the fastest pace […]
Bryan Brown, Vice-President & Portfolio Manager – Equities, CI Global Asset Management Finding Value in Canadian Growth One of our Canadian growth strategy is to invest in industry leaders in earnings and free cash flow growth, prioritizing companies with expected growth that compares favourably to the past. It is important to highlight that we view […]
2023 Federal Tax Canada’s Finance Minister, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, tabled the 2023 federal budget on March 28, 2023. Canada’s economy is now 103% the size it was before the pandemic, marking the fastest recovery of the last four recessions, and the second strongest recovery in the G7. The unemployment rate is near its record […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFFfaI4SdM Unless you prepare properly, your executor could end up feeling more like a detective. Where are receipts for the final tax return? Where’s the life insurance policy? What, there’s an old bank account from 20 years ago? The job of the executor is involved enough without having to search for information and documents that […]
