myGPSTM  - your Goals, Priorities, Solutions

Have you ever wondered what your financial future looks like?

Most in the field of personal finance agree that financial planning is an essential part of keeping your finances on track. For many people, though, a full financial plan can be expensive, time-consuming to prepare, and generate complicated output not appropriate in all situations. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a simpler way to get a holistic view of your changing wealth management needs and track progress towards meeting your future financial goals?

Wondering what your future looks like? myGPS™ provides an overview of your financial picture and how you are tracking to your short-term and long-term goals.

Introducing RBC Wealth Management’s myGPS™
myGPS™ offers a prioritized view of your financial goals and recommends solutions to help achieve your wealth management needs.

  • Goals: A wealth planning solution to identify and report on your goals
  • Priorities: An integrated approach that pulls everything financially important into one place, enabling you to define and prioritize your milestones
  • Solutions: An advice approach that helps identify opportunities and solutions on how to pursue those opportunities

myGPS™ isn’t a financial plan. Rather, it is a report on things you already know (for example, your income, the equity in your house, the current value of your investments, and your annual taxes and expenses) projected into the future based on a set of assumptions about what may happen in the future (for example, the expected average rate of inflation, your long term goals and how much you intend to spend in retirement).

Learn more about myGPS™ here. 

myGPS™ Report: Six key questions you want answered
myGPS™ provides an overview of your financial picture and how you are tracking to your short-term and long-term goals. Helping to provide financial peace of mind, myGPS™ helps answer six key questions that can easily keep you awake at night.

1. What does my current financial situation look like?

Current Net Worth & Current Cash Flow – myGPS™ provides consolidated summaries showing your incomes, savings, expenses, investments, real estate and debt – your critical financial information presented in one document.

2. If I live to be 90, will I have sufficient funds to maintain my current and/or desired lifestyle?

Projected Net Worth, Projected Income and Distribution & Projected Outflows – Based on the information provided, myGPS™ will project income, savings, taxes, expenses and the value of your assets into the future using a defined set of assumptions.

3. If I die tomorrow, will my family be sufficiently provided for financially?

Estate Impact Analysis and Life Insurance Analysis – Anticipating your future financial needs is a difficult task. Anticipating your family’s future financial needs should you or your spouse die unexpectedly, is an even more difficult task. myGPS™ can help you identify any potential financial shortfalls should an unexpected tragedy strike you or your family.

4. How does changing my financial assumptions impact my future financial situation?

Retirement Analysis – It’s impossible to know for certain what will happen tomorrow. To provide a financial projection, however, certain assumptions about what will happen in the economy have to be made. But what if some of those assumptions prove to be wrong? What if, for example, you were forced to retire early? Or perhaps you end up spending more in retirement. The myGPS™ Retirement Analysis allows you to independently change the assumptions you have made about the future to see how that change will affect your overall finances.

5. What can I do to ensure my financial goals and priorities become reality?

Wealth Management Opportunities – myGPS™ reports the key financial products, solutions and strategies, which are tailored to your financial situation and priorities, helping you to make the most of what you have – both now and in the future.

6. Could my business survive a major change or crisis?

Business Owner Opportunities – For business owners, the line between work and life is blurred. Business Owner Opportunities, outline solutions and strategies that can be pursued from the business side or from the personal side of your finances. The opportunities are tailored to your own situation and cover only those topics which apply to you, your business and your family – strategies designed to help keep you in control of your financial future.

Source: RBC Dominion Securities Inc., myGPS - Your Goals, Priorities and Solutions Factsheet

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Helping you prepare your tax return

A guide designed to help you and your tax advisor prepare your tax return as related to your investments with RBC Dominion Securities. View the Tax Reporting Guide now.

The Tax Reporting Guide features:

  • Tax mailing dates

    Mailing dates for RBC Dominion Securities tax packages.

  • Tax information checklist

    A useful reference outlining all the Canadian and U.S. tax information slips and supporting documents you may receive from RBC Dominion Securities, including descriptions of how to use them.

“e” for a tree

Switch from paper to electronic documents, and we’ll plant a tree in your honour in partnership with Tree Canada. 

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In celebration of Earth Day 2020, together with the RBC Foundation, we are pleased to announce our partnership with Tree Canada.

We will plant a tree in your honour through Tree Canada’s National Greening Program when you do any of the following:

  • Enrol in WM Online to quickly and easily access your important account information, send and receive secure messages from us, and much more – all through your computer, tablet or mobile device. You can sign up by clicking here.
  • Switch to paperless eDocuments to safely view your account statements, tax documents, trade confirmations and more through WM Online, instead of receiving printed copies in the mail. Here’s how to sign up.
  • Set up online banking so you can transfer the funds you need between WM Online and RBC Online Banking, without ever having to leave your home. Here’s how to get started.

By switching to eDocuments, you can help achieve our goal of reducing our paper production by 1,547.75 metric tonnes. Plus we will plant a tree in your honour when you switch before August 30, 2020.

It’s easy to get set up for our online services. Simply contact us and we will walk you through the process.

View your documents electronically with eDocuments

Go paperless with eDocuments to reduce your paperwork, while helping us reduce our impact on the environment.

 

With eDocuments, you can securely view your RBC Dominion Securities account documents (such as statements, confirmations and prospectuses) in Adobe PDF format from the convenience of your personal computer. By choosing eDocuments, you have less paperwork to file or shred, saving you time and helping to protect the environment. Plus, you can quickly access a seven-year archive of your account statements.

The choice is yours

You can choose either eDocuments or regular paper documents – it's up to you. If you want to switch to eDocuments, follow the easy steps below. If you'd rather receive paper documents instead, do nothing – they will continue to come in the mail as before.

Accessing your eDocuments

  • To add eDocuments to personal accounts: simply call us and we'll change your accounts over the phone and set you up for WM Online if required. Otherwise, please click here and follow the steps.
  • To add eDocuments to business and corporate accounts: get in touch with us first to complete a consent form, then you can follow the same steps as personal accounts.

To learn more about eDocuments or WM Online, please contact us.