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Canadian Dental Care Plan Renewal Deadline Approaches

Know Your Client!   It’s a daily commitment and requirement, especially in the work that financial advisors do with their clients.   It’s imperative that you ask about any significant changes in their lives. Has there been a significant new event:   a move to take a new job or go to university, a marriage or divorce, a new birth, a disability or a death? And, in the case of income tested benefits such as the Canadian Dental Care Plan, (CDCP) do they qualify?  Did they file their tax return on time to get it?  Do you know the deadlines for doing so?  Do you know when coverage ends if your client now longer qualifies?

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Wizards with a Crystal Ball: Expert Panel Moderated by Jonathan Chevreau

In 50 years, what hasn’t changed is the familiar behavioral dynamics: fear and greed, risk and reward.

A Wealth of Tax Information at Your Fingertips

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Most Agree: Retirement Planning Should Begin Early

Hindsight is always 20/20 and sneaking that crystal ball glimpse into the future is next to impossible. For many of our KBR readers, if they only knew then what they know now, they would agree that retirement planning should start early in life.
 
 
 
Knowledge Bureau Poll Question

Does the new government’s promise, expected soon, to cut the lowest personal income tax rate by 1% to 14%, go far enough to help Canadians impacted by high costs? What are alternatives in your view?

  • Yes
    6 votes
    9.68%
  • No
    56 votes
    90.32%