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  “It’s Patrick. He took out life insurance…Good for you, son.” If you were a child of the 1990s like me, you will no doubt remember the iconic lines of one of the most run commercials on the air in the late 80s and early...

Many people most often ask me an apparently simple question: “Why do I need life insurance?” Let’s see if I can answer this question without boring you to death. Sorry, bad life insurance joke. Why do I need life insurance? Put simply, life insurance is...

3 Government Disability Plans That May Not Protect You Like You Think Over the years, many people have told me that they felt income protection - “disability insurance” - wasn't a priority. They believed that they were already covered by Employment Insurance, by “worker’s compensation”...

Critical illness insurance may not be what many people believe. There is a misconception that it is a financial benefit covered by our provincial health care plans. This couldn’t be further from the truth; governments do not pay us when/if we become critically ill, we...

The primary source of retirement income for the majority of Canadians who are nearing retirement will be personal savings. This is especially important because evidence is showing that government pensions will not be enough. But things haven't been easy for investors because of the market...

In the summer of 2014 Orlando Ali, Sr. – my father – the managing director of a Desjardins Financial Security Independent Network financial centre got the news that everyone dreads hearing; he had cancer. Now, this wasn’t a huge surprise because Orlando comes from a...

by Kusum Sen Critical illness insurance may not be what many people believe. There is a misconception that it is a financial benefit covered by our provincial health care plans. This couldn’t be further from the truth; governments do not pay us when/if we become critically...

It's estimated that it costs well over $200,000 to raise a child from birth to age 18, not counting post-secondary education. (MoneySense.ca 2015) So when a new child joins a family, parents and grand-parents tend to think about starting an education fund like a Registered...