New Provincial Housing Measures

Late last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced a series of changes that are aimed at cooling the hot housing market in the GTA. With fears that the market has entered bubble territory, the government felt that intervention was necessary to take aim at foreign...

Average Canadian Tax Bill

As Canadians, we typically vent about the amount of money we are paying to our Governments. Every year it seems like this amount is getting larger, but we never really examine how much we are paying relative to other Nations. A recent report from the OECD ranked 37...

Top 50 advisors in Canada

Each year Wealth Professional (highly respected news publication in the financial services industry) reaches out to the financial services community in order to compile a list of the top advisors that are driving the business forward. Given the fact that there are...

Investing in the Trump Era

With the U.S inauguration officially behind us, and President Trump now in the White House, I thought I would send you a list of his major campaign promises as a recap: · Undertake fiscal stimulus measures · Reform the tax system · Repatriate offshore profits ·...

U.S. Interest Rate Hike

During the last Federal Reserve System meeting of 2016, Janet Yellen has announced an increase to interest rates in the United States by 0.25%. As it stands, interest rates in the U.S. are at 0.75% but the Federal Reserve has signaled for approximately three more rate...