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  • How Do Dividends Work?

    How Do Dividends Work?

    How Do Dividends Work? Did you know that certain life insurance companies in Canada pay dividends annually to their participating whole life policy owners? Since 1848, Canadians who own these contracts have been receiving annual dividends each year without interruption. Yes, even during the Spanish Flu, the great depression, 30 recessions, H1N1, SARS, the financial…

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  • How to Get Tax Free Death Benefit

    How to Get Tax Free Death Benefit

    If retirement is on the horizon for you or a major milestone you want to achieve, set a clear goal, and plan a reward for achieving it to help motivate you. Instead of planning an age or a date focus on a financial target that will produce the quality of life you are looking for.

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  • Learn More About Your TFSA Contribution 2022

    Learn More About Your TFSA Contribution 2022

    The Tax-Free Savings Account or TFSA has become a very popular investing tool for Canadians. The good news for Canadian families is that each adult can contribute another $6000 into their TFSA accounts this year. That is $6000 in total across all accounts. Indeed, you can have multiple accounts, but you are capped to a contribution max. …

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  • Life insurance Canada

    Life insurance Canada

    What is the definition of Canadian Life Insurance? Life insurance is a contract between the insurance policyholder and the company. If you pass away during the term of the contract, the insurance company promises to pay the death benefit in terms of tax free money to those you designate as beneficiaries. There are many types…

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  • Is Life Insurance Taxable In Canada?

    Is Life Insurance Taxable In Canada?

    If retirement is on the horizon for you or a major milestone you want to achieve, set a clear goal, and plan a reward for achieving it to help motivate you. Instead of planning an age or a date focus on a financial target that will produce the quality of life you are looking for.

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  • What is Whole Life Insurance?

    What is Whole Life Insurance?

    If retirement is on the horizon for you or a major milestone you want to achieve, set a clear goal and plan a reward for achieving it to help motivate you. Instead of planning an age or a date, focus on a financial target that will provide the quality of life you are looking for.

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  • Cash Flow Banking Strategy

    Cash Flow Banking Strategy

    What is Cash Flow banking? Cashflow Banking or Cash Flow Banking is a strategy used to describe a way to capture the opportunity cost on your cash flow as it moves through your life. The banking aspect refers to the way you can transactionally access this stored cash flow from the cash values of a…

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  • What Is Permanent Life Insurance

    What Is Permanent Life Insurance

    Insured Retirement Plans (IRPs) allow you to have your cake and eat it too. In the article, we’ll be exploring what IRPs are, how they work, plus the pros and cons of getting one. Finally, we’ll tell you what kind of individual is best suited for this strategy. Insurance can be complicated. So, before we…

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  • Velocity Banking

    Velocity Banking

    Getting out of debt can be a trying experience. Canadians have been accumulating debt at lightning speeds, and it makes sense that we would look for ways to get out of debt just as fast. Head over to the internet and search for the Hail Mary solutions late at night. Something to help…

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  • The Insured Retirement Planning Guide

    The Insured Retirement Planning Guide

    Insured retirement plan (IRPs) Insured Retirement Plans (IRPs) allow you to have your cake and eat it too. In the article, we’ll be exploring what IRPs are, how they work, plus the pros and cons of getting one.

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  • Retirement Planning Guide for Canadians

    Retirement Planning Guide for Canadians

    Insured retirement plan (IRPs) Insured Retirement Plans (IRPs) allow you to have your cake and eat it too. In the article, we’ll be exploring what IRPs are, how they work, plus the pros and cons of getting one.

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  • Becoming Your Own Banker Training

    Becoming Your Own Banker Training

    Becoming Your Own Banker is a financial strategy focused on your benefits not the banks benefits. A way to grow your future financial success and the potential of a dividend-paying life insurance. It’s neither a sales nor a marketing tool for whole life insurance brokers.

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  • Risk management

    Risk management

    One of the fundamental pillars of risk management is investment diversification. Prudent Advisors recommend their Clients strategically spread investments across a range of assets, such as stocks, bonds, and real estate, reducing exposure to the volatility of any single investment. This diversification approach aims to optimize returns while minimizing the impact of market fluctuations, aligning…

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  • Insurable interest

    Insurable interest

    What is Insurable interest? The term “insurable interest” is used to describe the legal and financial interests of a person or company in an insurance policy. It means, in simple terms, that the person or entity buying the insurance has a stake in protecting the insured property or person. The stake is to ensure that…

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  • Inheritance tax with Ascendant Financial

    Inheritance tax with Ascendant Financial

    What is Inheritance tax? The term Inheritance Tax (IHT), stands for an amount that’s payable by a person who has received assets upon another individual’s death. The asset range includes cash, real estate properties, business shares among others. This emphasizes how important it is to understand optimal inheritance tax literature takes into account these factors…

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