Personal Finance

We all know that Canada is very different from the United States, and not just in our love of hockey and our “eh” habit....

Odds are, your wallet or smartphone is bursting with them: Loyalty cards — those promises of free groceries, travel and other bonuses. But are they...

Today, a bonanza of credit cards with competitive features and rewards has increased our expectations for cards that suit our personal lifestyle preferences. “Hey...

Everything is going great—until it isn’t. We focus on how long we think we’ll live and the amount of money we’ll need to fund...

It doesn’t take much to be restructured out of a job these days. And for many families, it can be a painful time both...

When it comes to accumulating wealth and rating our happiness, most of us sense how we’re doing by comparing ourselves to our neighbours. But the...

If you look at my bedside table right now you’ll find King William’s Tontines, by Moshe Milevsky, a book about a slightly macabre financing scheme invented...

I was hired by a private bank to conduct a workshop on financial basics for their affluent clients. One of the subjects I always...

We all do it. We accumulate financial papers all year long, put them aside in a pile in the corner of the kitchen or...