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You’ve achieved a lot in life, yet there’s so much more you want to do. Maybe you want to help your loved ones with a milestone purchase or fund your new business venture. Your next project may be to create a lasting legacy for future generations or, perhaps, you'd like to make a meaningful difference in your community, right there, right now. It could be that you yearn for a legendary life of adventure, or maybe a simple, cozy retirement is exactly right.

Whatever your goals, we take the time to understand what you want to accomplish with your wealth. Whether you need assistance managing wealth for yourself, your family or your business, we provide the professional advice you need, from start to finish.

And your wealth is indeed just the beginning – it’s a way to achieve more, give more, and experience more. We'll help manage your investments, plan your retirement, protect your financial security and plan your estate, so you can take comfort knowing you’re receiving expert wealth management and attention.

Contact us to learn how our knowledgeable team of professionals, backed by the resources of RBC Wealth Management, can help you grow more than wealth.

A plan for your priorities

Getting the right investment advice is a key part of managing wealth. But it's just one part of a bigger picture.

That's why you deserve a coordinated wealth management strategy that helps to address the financial concerns at each stage of life, such as:

  • Growing assets for future goals like retirement
  • Maintaining assets to protect financial well-being
  • Creating an income stream for retirement
  • Creating a lasting legacy

Tax planning strategies for high-income earners

Depending on your province of residence, you may be subject to tax at a rate of 50% or higher when your income exceeds a set amount.

Discover several strategies that make for a tax-smart wealth plan.

6 questions to ask a potential Investment Advisor

Choosing an investment advisor is one of the most critical financial decisions you will ever make. Before entering into any partnership, it's important to ask the following questions and make sure you are comfortable with the answers.

1. Are you accredited or registered?

Ask your prospective investment advisor how they are registered, and the range of services, products and advice they are qualified to provide. The investment firm they are employed by should be a member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), which regulates all investment dealers in Canada (including RBC Dominion Securities). IIROC monitors and enforces rules regarding the proficiency, business and financial conduct of these firms and their advisors.

2. What is your experience?

Your investment advisor should be forthcoming about their industry experience, professional qualifications, memberships and education. Also, fewer years as an advisor may not necessarily mean less expertise. Many investment advisors enter the profession after many years of working as experts in a particular field with people who would later become clients, for example as consultants to business owners who later specialize in business owners' investment portfolios.

3. What kinds of products and services can you provide?

Ask if your investment advisor is limited to certain investments (such as proprietary products offered by their firm, GICs or mutual funds) or if you can draw on a greater range of investment products. Make sure you ask about your investment advisor's access to investment research, portfolio strategy teams, and risk management groups. Find out if your advisor focuses on investment solutions only, or has access to a wide network of partners in areas such as financial planning, insurance solutions, retirement, and estate planning services.

4. What type of clients do you serve?

Ask whether your potential investment advisor specializes in any particular client group, such as business owners, medical professionals or retirees. Don't be shy about asking for references either; your investment advisor is in many ways applying for the job.

5. How will you help me reach my goals?

Your advisor should ask you to outline your investment objectives – for example, preserving income, building wealth, retiring comfortably. Your advisor may also draw on value-added services such as financial, tax or estate planning to ensure that your ongoing wealth needs (in addition to investments) are in sync with the rest of your affairs.

Ask about your advisor's investment process, and how they create and manage your portfolio. Is each portfolio custom-crafted, or is the advisor following a set of established models? Confirm that you are comfortable with the process.

6. What kind of service will I receive?

Your advisor should clarify at the outset the level of service you can expect. This includes how often you will meet to review your progress; how your advisor will update you on portfolio performance; and what sort of contact you can expect from your advisor.

Building your wealth... and your confidence


At RBC Dominion Securities, we provide the expert advice, personalized approach and sophisticated solutions you need to build and protect wealth – all backed by the strength and stability of RBC.

RBC Dominion Securities1 

  • Canada’s leading full-service wealth management firm2 with over $425 billion in assets under care

  • Established in 1901

  • Nearly 2,000 Investment Advisors in 160 branches in communities across Canada

  • Over 500,000 clients worldwide 

  • One of Canada’s largest discretionary managers with $170 billion in assets under management

  • Member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), the self-regulatory organization overseeing Canadian investment firms

  • Clients’ accounts protected by the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF) within specified limits (a brochure describing the nature of limits of coverage available upon request)

  • #1 overall bank-owned investment firm as ranked by advisors (2022 Investment Executive Brokerage Report Card)

  • A member company of RBC Wealth Management

RBC Wealth Management3 

  • Over US$1.38 trillion in assets under administration and more than US$992 billion in assets under management

  • Recognized as the “Best Private Bank” in Canada (The Banker/PWM – Global Private Banking Awards 2022)

  • Named “Outstanding Global Private Bank” in North America (Private Banker International Global Wealth Awards 2022)

  • Recognized as “Best Bank for Sustainability and ESG Thought Leadership” globally (WealthBriefing Wealth for Good Awards 2022)

RBC Royal Bank3

  • Canada’s largest bank by assets and market capitalization, with broad leadership in financial services

  • A top 10 bank globally based on market capitalization, with operations in 29 countries

  • 95,000+ employees serving more than 17 million clients worldwide

  • Strong credit ratings: Aa1 (Moody’s), AA- (S&P), AA (Fitch), AA (high) (DBRS)6

Top Global Wealth Managers in page


1Financial information as of October 31, 2022. 2Retail Brokerage and Distribution Canada–Quarterly Update, Investor Economics (Fall 2022). 3Financial information as of October 31, 2022. 4Top 25 Global Wealth Management Firms Market Monitor, Aite-Novarica Group (2021). 5S&P Global Market Intelligence, as of April 11, 2022. 6November 29, 2022. Insurance products are offered through RBC Wealth Management Financial Services Inc. (“RBC WMFS”), a subsidiary of RBC Dominion Securities Inc.* RBC WMFS is licensed as a financial services firm in the province of Quebec. RBC Dominion Securities Inc., RBC WMFS and Royal Bank of Canada are separate corporate entities which are affiliated. *Member-Canadian Investor Protection Fund. RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and RBC WMFS are member companies of RBC Wealth Management, a business segment of Royal Bank of Canada. ® / TM Trademark(s) of Royal Bank of Canada. Used under licence. © 2022 RBC Dominion Securities Inc. All rights reserved.

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.

A+ Portfolios

A+ is an innovative investment platform that gives you convenient access to a professionally managed, fully customized investment portfolio. A+ provides access to some of the world’s leading investment managers, backed by RBC’s proven investment discipline.

With most investment programs, you are fit to the program. However with A+, the program is fit to you. Your A+ portfolio is individually crafted based on your unique needs for capital growth, investment income and asset preservation. Then, your A+ portfolio is professionally managed for you within strict parameters, freeing you to focus on your other important priorities with confidence.

Your customized A+ portfolio provides:

  • The expertise of leading independent asset management firms, carefully assessed through in-depth research, and brought together in a coordinated, customized portfolio
  • The latest portfolio management technology that brings together multiple asset managers into a single, unified portfolio with consolidated reporting and synchronized asset allocation
  • A proven investment discipline that ensures your portfolio is set, monitored and rebalanced according to your specific investment guidelines
  • A modern approach that can help you achieve your financial goals, without compromising on your personal values

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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


Insurance products are offered through RBC Wealth Management Financial Services Inc. (“RBC WMFS”), a subsidiary of RBC Dominion Securities Inc.* RBC WMFS is licensed as a financial services firm in the province of Quebec. RBC Dominion Securities Inc., RBC WMFS and Royal Bank of Canada are separate corporate entities which are affiliated. *Member-Canadian Investor Protection Fund. RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and RBC WMFS are member companies of RBC Wealth Management, a business segment of Royal Bank of Canada. ® / ™ Trademark(s) of Royal Bank of Canada. Used under licence. © 2020 RBC Dominion Securities Inc. All rights reserved.

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