On June 16th, we had our most recent online seminar with World Burger Champion and regular on Global News Morning, Rusty Johnson. Rusty shared his experience and expertise on how to create the best burger right in your own backyard – an important skill for summer! If you missed the session, you can see it here or watch for Rusty’s guest article in our October Financialist newsletter.
Recently, we have been surrounded with news about a slowing economy and central banks raising interest rates in an attempt to lower inflation. This level of uncertainty in the economy has sparked a lot of volatility in capital markets.
No doubt you have seen the market reports over the last few months, and the news has not been pretty. The investment markets have had a material decline from the beginning of the year.
I wrote to you in early 2019 after the US Federal Reserve Bank (the ‘Fed’) talk of raising interest rates sent the stock market down more than 20% before a post-Christmas rally.
I’m sure that by now you’ve heard that stock and bond markets around the world have been dropping.
Raising interest rates is the Bank of Canada’s (BoC) weapon of choice to combat inflation.
Income splitting refers to transferring income from high income earners to lower income family members. Income splitting can be used to reduce the total taxes that you pay as a family when members are in different marginal tax brackets.
Recently I was asked about what the markets will do in the next quarter. My answer was, “I don’t know, and neither does anyone else.
It’s safe to say 2022 has been “interesting” thus far! In my opinion, this is a big year for transitions, of which, as I see it, there are 3…
And just like that! Another year has passed. Happy New Year to everyone and here’s to 2022 being somewhat back to normal?!
