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We are very happy to release our first special report, titled Things Your Financial Advisor Will Not Tell You.

You can find the report

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The Vancouver Province published an article last week (original visible here) discussing how the average person is at more risk than ever of not being able to afford retirement.

This situation stems from an increasing cost for quality health care (except here in Alberta), and longer life expectancies.

The article really focuses on making healthy choices now, so that you are healthy down the road.

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A TD Economics report released yesterday declares Canada's housing boom to be over and certainly over the summer, you're going to hear about declining average house prices in Calgary.

This will undoubtedly give rise to speculation the housing 'bubble' has burst, the bottom has fallen out of the market, the sky is falling and a bunch of other adages proclaiming the end is near, none of which are or

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As you would expect, I find myself talking to a lot of people about investing. I talk about the shortage of quality housing, and about the sub-prime crisis. I discuss how the tenant is your real asset, and not the house.

But the one thing that I talk most about is the power of leverage. This one thing is the most powerful part of real estate investing, and can sky-rocket your returns.

So, how does

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or "The problem with Mutual Funds"


Ahhh... RRSPs. I could chat for a long time on this, but here's my 'short' version of it;

RRSPs serve only one purpose: To reduce your payable taxes in the year you make the contribution (including up to Feb). Nearly everybody thinks there is *no* taxes on RRSPs, when in fact you only defer the taxes until you take the money out.

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