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Estate Planning for Canadian Business Owners: How to Protect & Transfer Your Wealth in 2025
Protect your legacy by integrating estate and succession planning—preserving wealth, minimizing taxes, and ensuring your business thrives for generations.
How to Talk to Your Children About Money A Guide to Instilling Lasting Financial Values
Preparing children for wealth means teaching values, encouraging independence, fostering real-world learning, and building lasting conversations around money and responsibility.
Calgary’s Tight Housing Market: Why Business Owners Can’t Afford to Wait
Calgary’s tight housing market demands strategy—business owners can’t afford to wait when aligning real estate with financial goals.
Tariffs Are Coming—Is Your Business Ready?
Tariffs could disrupt supply chains and increase costs. Businesses must assess risks, adapt contracts, diversify sourcing, and explore tax strategies.
The Power Generation: How Canadians 55+ Are Shaping the Future for All
Canadians 55+ are reshaping retirement by supporting family, embracing technology, and prioritizing financial and health planning.
The Last Great Tax Shelter
Wealthy Canadians buy life insurance not just for risk protection but for its tax advantages—tax-free growth, tax-free death benefits, and powerful estate-planning benefits.
Big Tax Shifts in 2025: What Canadian Businesses Can’t Ignore
Significant tax changes in 2025 will impact Canadian businesses, from capital gains inclusion rates to CPP updates and CRA digital services. Preparation ensures compliance and growth.
Keeping Your New Year Financial Goals Realistic and Achievable
The New Year offers a fresh start to reflect on financial habits, set realistic goals, and make meaningful changes for 2025.
The Myth of the Great Wealth Transfer: Reality Checks and Strategic Planning in Canada
Canada’s $1 trillion wealth transfer reveals a gap between younger Canadians' inheritance expectations and older generations’ financial realities, highlighting the need for strategic planning.
Strategies to Alleviate Retirement Fears and Build Financial Security for Canadians
Retirement planning involves calculating needs, investing early, increasing income, delaying benefits, managing debt, and securing health insurance for financial confidence.
Financial Literacy Month: Why “Money on Your Mind” Matters More Than Ever
November's Financial Literacy Month, themed "Money on Your Mind," emphasizes open discussions about financial knowledge and its mental health implications.
Building Your Retirement Roadmap: A Comprehensive Guide for Canadian Entrepreneurs
Retirement planning for Canadian entrepreneurs involves defining goals, saving strategically, and adapting to changes. Start early for a secure future.
Corporate Shared Ownership of Critical Illness Insurance: A Simple Guide for Canadian Business Owners
Explore the importance of budgeting, the power of compound interest and the impact of subscriptions on your personal finances.
Budgets: The Foundation of Financial Success.
Explore the importance of budgeting, the power of compound interest and the impact of subscriptions on your personal finances.
Financial Planning and Wellbeing
The current cost of living crisis, against a backdrop of bleak economic predictions, is a significant cause for concern for millions of people.
Pay off Debt or Choose to Invest? Which is Better?
In our recent Integrated Advisory video series, WealthCo President Sophie Blais takes us through the key elements of financial planning.
Taking Control of Your Financial Health
From getting eight hours of sleep per night to scheduling regular exercise to adopting healthy eating habits, most of us have figured out how to maintain our physical health. Yet, so few apply the same care and attention to monitoring our financial health.
The Lottery Curse…and How to Avoid It
Recently, Alberta has seen a streak of lottery winners. For these fortunate individuals, and anyone else who might unexpectedly come into significant funds, Jeff Dyck, WealthCo’s Vice President of Insurance & Estate Planning, offers some valuable advice.