Step 1: Insurance Protection

Financial protection for life starts with insurance.

Life is unpredictable. That’s why planning for the future and protecting your family, assets, business, and estate with insurance and a legal will are the most important building blocks to creating a rock solid financial plan.

The death benefit provided by a life insurance policy helps cover final expenses and funeral costs, protects your estate from probate, and guarantees an income for your loved ones after you are gone. It also helps to preserve your legacy for future generations by leaving more of your wealth in the hands of those who matter most.  Simply put, life insurance is just another term for love assurance.

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Protecting yourself in the present is also key. The richest asset in life is your health. Critical illness insurancedisability insurance and a range of other healthcare insurance products provide living benefits that help you take care of you in case of accident, illness, or injury so you can focus your energy on recovery rather than worry about finances and managing expenses.

You might not have control over life’s unexpected surprises, but you have the control to protect yourself and loved ones with insurance.

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Step 2: Managing Debt

Financial control for life is making your money work harder for you—not others.

You can’t get ahead financially if you’re unable to manage your debt. Traditional debt management advice focuses on budgeting today to save for some far-off retirement dream tomorrow. This simply doesn’t work. Budgeting places restrictions on what you can do with your money, limiting you from enjoying life in the present. Deprivation perpetuates overspending which keeps you trapped in the debt cycle.

Bottom line is, everyone deserves to live the lifestyle they want now and in retirement. Adopting an attitude of conscious value-based spending—assigning a value to what you want to spend your money on—can help put you on the right track to better money management and abundant living.

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Identifying productive expenses that increase your value and productivity will help you cultivate the lifestyle you truly desire as opposed to destructive expenses that don’t align with your needs, goals, dreams or values. Destructive expenses include things like overdraft fees, credit card loans, and not living within your means. Productive expenses are life-enhancing and value-based such as investing in education to increase your skills and in your business. Classifying expenses will go a long way towards changing your financial mindset and getting you out of debt.

Equally important is learning how to make your money work harder for you in the most efficient way possible. A good financial plan will look at how you can optimize your cash flow to your advantage so you not only pay down debt faster and growth wealth safely for the future, but recoup more of what you earn in the present by paying out less in interest and taxes to others.

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Step 3: Building a Cash Reserve

Financial flexibility for life is access to your money when you need it for what you want.

When you manage your debt, you can start to put money aside into savings to build a cash reserve that can also double as an emergency fund. Having an emergency fund provides you with an additional layer of protection in case of unlikely events such as sudden unemployment or unexpected life costs.

But a cash reserve isn’t just having savings set aside for a rainy day. Your money isn’t meant to sit stagnant in your bank account earning little to no interest. This is where most traditional financial planning and advice leaves off. In fact, even the concept of having an emergency fund suggests an idea of financial deprivation—of having insufficient money to cover your needs.

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We take building a cash reserve a step further by teaching you non-traditional financial savings strategies that grow your money safely with contractual guaranteed growth over the long-term. As inflation increases and the cost of living rises, your money needs to be continually growing to adjust to these conditions, otherwise you will likely use credit to finance many of life’s big purchases, getting yourself further into debt.

Building a lifelong cash reserve provides other benefits such as liquidity and the flexibility to access your money when you need for what you want. Your child’s education, that dream vacation you always wanted to take—it’s your choice.

Traditional investment savings plans such as RRSPs and RESPs force you to “lock in” your money and penalize you for early withdrawal at a time when you probably need your money the most. These investments just don’t provide you with the same level of financial liquidity, flexibility and security as building your own cash reserve based on a safe, long-term, guaranteed growth savings strategy. It’s like learning to become your own personal banker.

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Step 4: Wealth Building

Financial freedom for life is building wealth through secure, predictable, long-term guaranteed savings growth.

Our financial ideology is that risky, speculative investing and RRSPs are not the best mechanisms to build wealth or save for your retirement, especially when you stand to lose money. Having a financial strategy in place that ultimately provides you with secure, predictable, long-term guaranteed savings growth is key to ensuring you true financial security and freedom in retirement. If want to achieve this, you need to safeguard your own retirement and be in control of your money.

Traditional financial planning teaches you that to save for retirement, you must scrimp and save a portion of your monthly income in an RRSP during your working years or risk losing money through speculative investing on the stock market, just to get ahead.

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But RRSPs are federal-government sponsored savings plans that give you negligible financial control or flexibility. Even though you are investing your own money, the government dictates how much money you can put in and when you can withdraw it. If you withdraw money prior to retirement, the government penalizes you. That’s money you lose and they gain.

And depending on the way your RRSP is diversified and invested, market volatility could cause you to not only lose your gains but your principal too. Since 2000, the stock market has experienced losses of 49%+ from two separate crashes. The higher your risk tolerance the greater amount of money you stand to lose. As a result, it is hard to determine what the minimum guaranteed value of your RRSP plan will be the day you tap into it. You are left with an uncertain fund to rely on in retirement.

You may benefit from the tax deduction on RRSP plan contributions and the tax deferral on gains but the real tax benefit will go to the government when every dollar you withdraw will be taxed at a rate that could be substantially higher than rates today, especially when you factor in inflation. If you are in lower tax rate when you retire, you may be poorer than you want to be.

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