Committed to helping you achieve your goals

The markets, like the weather, are constantly shifting. With that in mind, Derek Michnik, Senior Investment & Wealth Advisor and Certified Financial Planner (CFP), helps his clients build and protect their wealth with tailored financial plans, a disciplined investment approach, and down-to-earth solutions for complex needs.

His clients include hard-working, high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs, business owners, farmers, and agribusiness professionals in the Central Alberta area, including Red Deer, Drumheller, and Rocky Mountain House. By building meaningful relationships with clients and providing a full range of services, Derek helps them create an ideal financial future for themselves, their families, and future generations.

 

What you can expect from Derek

  • A detailed financial plan to project retirement, estate, succession, and risk issues, along with ongoing support and monitoring of progress.
  • An in-depth investment plan with quality advice on investments and portfolio management.
  • A well-defined Service Plan to ensure consistent and reliable contact.
  • Independent research from RBC Capital Markets, Veritas, S & P, Bear Sterns, and Value Line.
  • Resources of the largest Investment firm in Canada, including Estate, Trust, Insurance, and Financial Planning professionals.
  • Someone who cares about you and is committed to helping you succeed in meeting your goals.

 

Derek's Specialties

Backed by the vast resources of RBC, Derek's wealth management approach is fully comprehensive to provide a sophisticated client experience that goes beyond investment returns. Derek's specialties include: Retirement Planning, Estate Preservation, Succession Planning, RRSP and Flow-through Shares, Tax and Insurance Planning, Portfolio Management (including stocks, bonds, mutual funds), preferred shares, GICs, segregated funds, 3rd party managed money, life insurance, and any new issues that arise.

Derek Michnik

Senior Investment & Wealth Advisor

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Recent Posts

Executive summary: Global Insight 2026 Outlook

Dec 19, 2025 | The Global Portfolio Advisory Committee

The future is here … and gathering speed. We share key insights from our Global Insight 2026 Outlook, highlighting the forces likely to shape financial markets as well as potential investment opportunities for the year ahead and beyond.

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The Fed takes a turn down easy street

Dec 12, 2025 | Thomas Garretson, CFA

Another rate cut from the Federal Reserve this week has taken U.S. interest rates into a new era where we think every rate cut not only means that policy gets easier, but risks becoming too easy, all while the decisions only get harder.

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S&P 500 rally: When a rising tide lifts some boats more than others

Dec 05, 2025 | Kelly Bogdanova

The rally in 2025 and throughout the longer bull market cycle has been uneven with the largest of large-cap stocks dominating. Key charts illustrate this phenomenon, and we discuss how to factor this into portfolio strategies.

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