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Retirement in 2013 – Is it what you’re expecting?

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Guest / August 28th, 2013 / 2 Comments

This is a Guest Post. If you’re interested in guest posting, check out our policy! Going forward from 2013, the American work-force is slowly, but surely, coming around to looking at retirement in a completely different light than it was viewed in 20-30 years ago. Once upon a time, your retirement years were mirage-like – white-sand beaches, horseback riding in the country side, and/or leisurely...

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How to transfer your RRSP’s to a brokerage

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Brian / April 10th, 2013 / 2 Comments

Earlier this year, CF wrote about tackling big goals by breaking them down into smaller tasks. We’ve applied exactly this principle in our quest to transfer our mutual funds to a brokerage, so that we could switch to ETF investing. We’ve really been pushing to get our RRSP investments out of mutual funds due to the high management expense ration (MER) of over 2%. We recently opened an...

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