Nurturing the environment – and our community

On Friday, May 24, 2024, our Etobicoke RBC Dominion Securities team partnered with Tree Canada and One Million Trees Mississauga [TBC] to plant 100 native trees and shrubs at Fleetwood Park, as part of our E-for-a-Tree campaign.

This initiative helps encourage clients to use our digital communication tools – such as e-statements, e-tax documents, secure messaging – to increase efficiency while helping to protect our environment.

The E-for-a-Tree campaign was launched in 2020 through a partnership among RBC Wealth Management, RBC Foundation and Tree Canada. It was a $200,000 commitment from the bank to plant 50,000 trees across the five major regions in Canada as part of Tree Canada’s broader National Greening Program.

Sources:

https://www.mississauga.ca/services-and-programs/forestry-and-environment/trees/one-million-trees/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bob-sautner-cfp-2a56b38_on-friday-may-24-2024-the-etobicoke-rbc-activity-7200841772225208321-Mwm6/

https://www.rbcwealthmanagement.com/en-ca/community/insights/tree-canada-plants-50-000-trees-after-clients-choose-to-go-paperless]

Second Harvest

On June 25th, our leadership and colleagues at RBC Dominion Securities and RBC branches in Etobicoke came together to volunteer at Second Harvest, helping with packing food for delivery to feed people in need. We sorted and boxed over 12,800 pounds of food for distribution to those in need.

Did you know that almost 60% of all food produced in Canada is lost and wasted each year? More than 11 million tons of edible food ends up in landfill when it could be used to feed 5.6 million Canadians who are food insecure. Second Harvest is Canada’s largest food rescue organization. They work with businesses across the food supply chain to reduce the amount of edible food going to waste, which in turn averts the release of millions of pounds of greenhouse gases. The food Second Harvest recovers is redirected to thousands of charities and non-profit organizations, ensuring more people have access to healthy food.

We are proud to support this worthy cause, and applaud our leaders and colleagues who volunteered to help others.

Achieve Infinite Magnificence – health and wellness conference and expo

As an advocate for financial literacy and financial wellness, I was happy to have presented on the topic of "The journey to financial wellness - From financial stress to financial resilience to financial wellness" at the “Achieve Infinite Magnificence – health and wellness conference and expo” on May 6th in Mississauga. It was great to meet and interact with the attendees and other wonderful speakers in the health and wellness space.

So, what did a Wealth Advisor have to share at a health and wellness conference. Well, it turned out to be a lot.

To begin with, research has shown over and over again that financial wellness is integral to achieving one's holistic wellness objectives such as physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

And the realities of a challenging macro economic environment, high levels of household debt and evolving long term shifts in demographics such as longevity, changing employment, environment and social structures place the onus on us as individuals to prepare and plan for all the transitions in life. To develop the awareness around our current financial situation and future goals, be conscious of our values, emotions and cognitive biases so that we are able to make better decisions , and the intentions to take the necessary steps to achieve our financial and life goals.

Its nice that financial literacy and financial wellness are discussed in community events such as this one. Awareness leads to action which in turn leads to wellbeing.