Business Planning - Build your business and personal wealth with expert advice

Owning and operating a successful company commands a lot of time and attention. Every day, you make critical decisions that affect the financial health of your business. So, you know how important it is to have the best possible services and products to help effectively manage your finances — we can help.

Our business owner solutions can be ideal if you need help:

  • Managing business and personal assets separately but efficiently
  • Investing, preserving and maximizing surplus cash
  • Designing a succession plan for a smooth transition
  • Creating diversified, tax-efficient income with the sale proceeds
  • Protecting against the sudden loss of a key employee using insurance solutions
  • Safeguarding personal and business assets from adverse events
  • Building employee loyalty with employer-sponsored retirement plans

 

 

Retirement Planning - 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

 

 

 

Estate Planning - Everything you need to know about estate planning

Proper estate planning requires careful consideration of many factors: reducing taxes, providing for loved ones, passing on assets in an orderly fashion, creating a charitable legacy and more.

Better understand your choices and make informed decisions with our complimentary estate planning guide.

It will help you understand important topics such as:

  • Having valid and current Wills for all adults in the family
  • Evaluating insurance coverage
  • Understanding ownership structures (i.e. the use of Joint Tenancy agreements)
  • Realizing advanced estate-planning opportunities (i.e. the use of Living Trusts)
  • Planning charitable gifts

 

 

Insurance Planning - Insurance solutions

A solution for your corporate needs

Every day, you make crucial business decisions affecting the financial health of your business organization. And you know how important it is to have the best possible services and products to help effectively manage your finances. Making the right financial decisions is a big responsibility – and we can help.

Some of the best opportunities for small corporations, including holding companies, come from using tax-exempt life insurance. It is a tax-efficient means of transferring wealth out of a corporation into the hands of the next generation when you pass away. 

We can provide you with access to a vast array of products and services geared towards the needs of businesses and corporations. An important part of preparing your business for continued success is to prepare it for the unexpected. We have access to a wide array of business protection strategies:

  • Funding buyout agreements
  • Shared ownership
  • Minimizing corporate taxes
  • Maximizing corporate assets
  • Executive life insurance planning
  • Business succession planning
  • Key person insurance
 
A solution for your personal needs

We understand that creating and effectively managing your wealth is just part of the equation. It's also important to preserve it. Through the use of insurance strategies, we can help you preserve your wealth during your lifetime, and protect the value of your estate for your family and other beneficiaries. Insurance strategies can also help you maximize the wealth you transfer to your heirs.

  • Estate creation and preservation
  • Tax minimization
  • Estate maximization and protection
  • Income enhancement

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.