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Figuring out how to fund your retirement from your savings has been called the most difficult challenge in personal finance. This eBook is here to help. It explains your options and provides you with strategies to get: a steady income throughout your retirement, more income without saving more, peace of mind that you’re on the right track. 

The recent film, Playing with FIRE details the particulars of the FIRE Movement in a way that is accessible, informative and impactful. Both Cameron and Ben were hugely impressed with the film and the argument it makes for the framework of FIRE.

Over the past couple of weeks, the stock market has recovered some of the ground it lost when the seriousness of the COVID-19 crisis became clear. We don’t know where the markets will go from here, but one thing investors have always been able to count on is dividend income.

When it comes to the question of whether the economy affects the stock market, it’s not about whether the former is in a good or bad state, but how that relates to what the market was expecting. In today’s episode we get into predictions about labour economics during COVID-19, the relationship between the market and the economy, and how to make decisions that suit your risk tolerance.

Welcome back to the Canadian Portfolio Manager podcast, where we’ll continue on with our Spaceballs-inspired exploration of the new CPM model portfolios. I’m your host, Justin Bender, and in today’s episode, we’ll introduce our moderately complicated Ridiculous portfolios.

With another week of ‘stay home’ behind us, we thought we would share a couple of thoughtful perspectives about what is going on.

With stock markets down significantly across the globe as a result of the novel coronavirus in a matter of a month, it’s tempting to think stock markets are on sale and that you need to take advantage of that. Most don’t have large amounts of cash lying around, so borrowing to invest is one way to access that cash.

No one credible ever said that investing was a simple endeavour. It might have some simple guidelines, that if followed are more likely to yield positive results, but the ins and outs of the markets, decisions and their impacts, movements and crashes are never straightforward one-dimensional cases.

In an epic scene from Spaceballs, Dark Helmet recklessly pushes his ship past Ludicrous speed and into Plaid. In the process, he way overshoots Lone Starr’s Winnebago Eagle 5, leaving a colourful, checkered display in his wake. Lone Starr’s co-pilot Barf marvels, “They’ve gone to plaid”.

In this episode, we take a less analytical position on the current situation to focus more on the behavioral side of things. Joining us are two returning guests, Dr. Moira Somers and Dave Goetsch, who share their unique perspectives in a very real and at times refreshingly comical conversation about how people could most beneficially respond to this moment in time.