Achieve and maintain a comfortable retirement

Whether you're years away from retiring, close to retirement or already retired, a comprehensive plan and expert advice are critical in building and protecting your retirement dream.

We're there every step of the way, delivering the strategies, service and solutions that you may need to help achieve or maintain a comfortable retirement.

Our retirement planning solutions can be ideal if you need help:

  • Projecting your retirement needs and the steps required to achieve them
  • Creating diversified, tax-efficient retirement income with your nest egg
  • Protecting your wealth with the right balance of risk and reward
  • Keeping track of your savings goals and portfolio performance
  • Considering the tax advantages of holding certain investments outside of an RRSP
  • Planning when to withdraw from your investment accounts tax-efficiently
  • Designing a tax-smart estate plan for a quick and efficient transfer to your loved ones
  • Safeguarding personal assets and your family's lifestyle from adverse events
  • Building an enduring legacy with your capital, time and passion
  • Planning family income-splitting strategies

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The four-step Portfolio Approach

The basis of long-term, successful money management, the Portfolio Approach is predicated around creating a customized investment portfolio that reflects your investment needs throughout the various stages of your life.

There are four steps to the custom Portfolio Approach:

Step 1 : Understanding your needs and goals

Our first and most important job is to listen to you and understand your needs and dreams for the future. We will take the time to understand your specific investment goals, such as saving for retirement or financing a business, and the timeframes available to achieve them. In addition, we will consider your return expectations and tolerance for risk. This “discovery process” doesn't end here—as time passes, and your situation changes, we will work with you to ensure that your investment strategy remains current.

Step 2 : Creating your investment strategy

With an in-depth understanding of your personal situation, we are able to create your investment strategy. This provides the framework for managing your financial assets going forward. It clearly sets out your investment objectives, income needs, timeframes, asset mix guidelines, security selection criteria and review process. Your investment strategy helps keep your investment goals and preferences in clear focus. It also provides a benchmark for measuring the progress you're making towards achieving your goals.

Step 3 : Building your custom-designed portfolio

Once you've approved your investment strategy, we can structure your personal portfolio.

In building a personalized investment portfolio for you, we select from a universe of international investments. This includes:

  • Investments for growth, such as Canadian, U.S. and international stocks
  • Investments for income, including government and corporate bonds
  • Investments for wealth preservation, including guaranteed investments

We also have access to leading-edge investment strategy and research provided by the RBC Investment Strategy Committee, RBC Capital Markets and third-party, independent firms.

You will have a diversified portfolio that conforms to the guidelines and direction you set in advance. This process means you will receive specific, appropriate investment recommendations, and each recommendation will be clear and well thought-out.

Step 4 : Managing your portfolio

The last step in the process is to monitor your progress towards your continued success. We will review your portfolio with you on a regular basis, and recommend appropriate changes to keep you on track. You will also receive detailed account statements, portfolio review statements, transaction updates and tax reports.

For more information, please contact us today.

Are you ready for retirement?

If you are approaching retirement, or have recently retired, there are several financial items you need to check off your list. To help you keep track of all the critical details, and ensure you’re ready for a successful retirement, check out our Retirement Checklist.

It can help you:

  • Maximize government benefits
  • Manage RRSPs, RRIFs and Locked-In Accounts
  • Understand employee pensions and benefits
  • Coordinate your non-registered assets
  • Enhance your estate plan

Contact us for a free copy of the Retirement Checklist. 

Value-added wealth services

In addition to a vast array of investment products and solutions, we offer a number of value-added services to help you manage your wealth, many of which are complimentary for our clients.

These include:

  • Integration of your investment plan with your other service providers, including your lawyer or accountant
  • Access to financial planning services and a personal financial plan that addresses your cash flow, tax strategies, investments, retirement, insurance, estate planning and more 
  • Will and estate planning consultations through accredited Will and Estate Consultants 
  • Registered estate processing, tax reporting and T3 returns
  • Registered estate tax planning, including multiple and contingent beneficiary designations
  • Insurance consulting on a full range of individual life, health, segregated fund and annuity solutions
  • Custody and safekeeping
  • Annual consolidated tax reporting, including dispositions with book costs
  • Research, commentary and information on specific holdings, markets or economies upon request
  • Online integration of your RBC investment and bank accounts for consolidated viewing
  • Multi-currency account functionality
  • Automatic account contributions and withdrawals
  • Automatic mutual fund purchase and redemption plans
  • Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) capabilities
  • Interest paid on cash balances in investment accounts
  • Corporate reorganization advice
  • Cashless employee stock option exercise service
  • Self-directed Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) and formal trusts for educational purposes and income splitting
  • Introduction to a full suite of RBC partners if needed for: personal, business and private banking; estate and trust services, mortgage services; direct investing; and more

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With features such as built-in diversification, professional management, liquidity and more, it’s no wonder so many Canadians own mutual funds. With thousands of mutual funds available in Canada, however, it can be a challenge to sort through all the options. At RBC Dominion Securities, we specialize in matching the right mutual funds to your needs and objectives.

Wide selection of mutual funds:

  • Canadian and global equity funds
  • Fixed-income funds
  • Balanced funds
  • Money market funds
  • Index funds
  • Specialty funds

Top-level expertise

Our mutual fund analysts conduct comprehensive analysis on numerous mutual funds, including all the available funds in Canada, in order to arrive at a short-list of recommended funds.

Personal advice

We can recommend the best combination of funds for your portfolio — freeing you from the guesswork of finding the right mutual funds on your own.

Mutual funds could be ideal if you:

  • Want an easy way to diversify your overall investment portfolio
  • Want the convenience of building your financial future with professionally managed investments
  • Need easy access to your money

Commissions, trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be associated with mutual fund investments. Please read the fund facts and prospectus before investing. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values may change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.

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