Appeared in Business in Vancouver – January 28, 2014 It’s RRSP season. The Coles Notes version of what follows is that I’m less decisive than ever about applauding – one-hand clapping – the Registered Retirement Savings Plan. Here’s my own RRSP/RRIF scorecard: 16 equities and equity funds, 10 winners, six losers (Penn West Petroleum, big…
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RRSP fortune cookie advises: Be lucky
Appeared in North Shore News – February 4, 2011 Once again it’s registered retirement savings plan season. Anything I can help you with? Probably not. Ditto if you are very, very old and your RRSP has been magically transformed into a registered retirement income fund (RRIF), your payout reward for all those sacrificial years of…