Paul's Prose & Articles

Thank You (it is getting close to Thanksgiving)!

The Great Pandemic Economy: Let’s pretend someone wrote a book about a pandemic that took over the world. A pandemic that forced people to stay home for over a year. A pandemic that killed 2.5 million people and counting.

Are we there yet? Nope. In fact, I am not sure we will ever see the true end of Covid-19. Please do not take this to be a devastating negative – there is enough of that out there! It simply means that things will change.

Financial Education Why is this important now? Household Debt – It is simply out of control in Canada – in fact the highest in the world according to a new study by the OECD* Inheritances – Over the next decade or so it is estimated that over $400 Billion...

Politics vs Economics Let’s face it – who doesn’t want to be richer today? Who doesn’t want to pay less taxes? Who doesn’t want a cleaner world without natural disasters? Who doesn’t want peace and love for all? Well there is definitely a divide in opinion...

More Good Than Bad (About 20 years ago I wrote a song with that title!) Here we are in 2019 – so far the markets have been great and the weather has been miserable! There are so many wonderful things going on in this country right now. So why do we (including...

Birthday Thoughts So I am sitting here, the morning of my 53rd birthday and I think…..wow! Both my kids are in their twenties, my wife retires at the end of this school year – I’m getting old. I know my 90 year old clients are laughing at me right now...

It's Time to Grow!! In April, Kristin and I welcomed two key members to our team: Maurice Powers: Maurice has devoted 44 years to RBC and is convinced his best years are ahead of him!! Maurice spent much of his time as a Branch Manager at various locations...

Paul's Prose June 2017 What's in a Fee??? (oops.....did I say that word out loud?!) The business of managing money has evolved over the past 30 years. Yet that old adage “the more things change, the more they stay the same” definitely applies here. For...