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Byline: LARRY MacDONALD TFSA TROUNCERS This is TFSA Trouncers, a series that profiles Canadian investors who've accomplished incredible feats with their tax-free savings accounts. Daniel, 61, is a recent retiree [...]

The 2024 taxation year is almost done, and it's time to take advantage of year-end tax-planning strategies that allow you to maximize the tax benefits of your Tax-Free Savings Account [...]

Byline: LARRY MacDONALD TFSA TROUNCERS This is TFSA Trouncers, a series that profiles Canadian investors who've accomplished incredible feats with their tax-free savings accounts. If you have grown your TFSA [...]

Byline: LARRY MacDONALD TFSA TROUNCERS This is TFSA Trouncers, a series that profiles Canadian investors who've accomplished incredible feats with their tax-free savings accounts. James, 65 and now retired from [...]

Byline: DARCY KEITH; Staff TFSA TROUNCERS This is TFSA trouncers, a new series that profiles Canadian investors who've accomplished incredible feats with their tax-free savings accounts. Jacob is a 50-year-old [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The Bank of Canada's rate cut earlier this month has rippled through the universe of products for savers and, so far, the damage is minimal. Stay [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The first half of the 2020s has been a time of dynamic improvement in the most ordinary of all financial products. Where savings accounts once offered [...]

Byline: DARCY KEITH; Staff TFSA TROUNCERS Welcome to TFSA Trouncers, a new series that profiles Canadian investors who've accomplished incredible feats with their tax-free savings accounts. If you have grown [...]

Byline: DIANNE MALEY; Special to The Globe and Mail FINANCIAL FACELIFT Lester and Portia have an enviable lifestyle - self-employed, good income, a nice house in a desirable city and [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff Having a tax-free savings account means you've done something right with your money. There are good, better and best ways to use TFSAs, but just having [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The rise of the TFSA has pretty much killed RRSP season. You can contribute to a registered retirement savings plan in the first 60 days of [...]

Byline: JOEL SCHLESINGER; Special to The Globe and Mail Tax-free, high-yield income is likely to grab the attention of many retirees and their advisers, and that's exactly what an increasingly [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff INSIDE THE MARKET Increasing your returns as an investor means taking on more risk, with one big exception. It's possible today to boost returns from cash [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff Kudos to digital broker Questrade for getting the jump on its competitors in offering a first home savings account, the new and best way to save [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff The way of things in Canadian personal finance is that it can takes years for a new vehicle like the First Home Savings Account to achieve [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff High interest rates are hard on the housing market, but great for people trying to save a down payment. Rates on the safe savings vehicles appropriate [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff There are so many reasons to be risk-averse as an investor in early 2023. Stocks had a great January after sinking in 2022, but they've lost [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff Will you be taking an RRSP season guilt trip this winter? March 1 is the deadline for making a registered retirement savings plan contribution that counts [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK; Staff A down year for investing means upside potential ahead in 2023 and beyond. Your tax-free savings account is an ideal way to exploit the opportunities ahead. [...]

Byline: ANNA SHARRATT; Special to The Globe and Mail PAYCHEQUE PROJECT Name, age: Brendan, 29 Annual income: $75,000 Debt: $0 Savings: $38.22 in savings account; $4,995.26 in TFSA What he [...]

Byline: Eric Yoder Three weeks after the retirement savings program for millions of federal workers switched to a new operating platform, lawmakers are demanding answers as investors report widespread problems. [...]

Byline: ERICA ALINI; Staff Recession: The word has started surfacing again in economists' commentary as stocks tumble and central banks around the world crank up interest rates to combat rampant [...]

Byline: HELEN BURNETT-NICHOLS, Special to The Globe and Mail Lead As yet another school year begins during the COVID-19 pandemic, families who are either making contributions to or withdrawing from [...]

Byline: ROB CARRICK, Staff Lead The pandemic has added some urgency for parents who are helping financially support their young adult kids. Even before the pandemic, it was a challenge [...]

Byline: Susan Tompor, Columnist, USA TODAY No one has been getting rich stuffing their money into a savings account, and it's bound to get even tougher, as the Federal Reserve [...]

Byline: Aimee Picchi, Special to USA TODAY Ian Pareja, a test engineer in California, says he 'got super excited and went down a rabbit hole' when he learned about the [...]

College savings plans in many states are gearing up for their annual ''529 Day'' on Wednesday, when they offer incentives and promotions to encourage families to open and contribute to [...]

Byline: Robert Powell Decades ago, saving for retirement was fairly easy. You set aside 10% of your income in a taxable account. But over the years it has become especially [...]

WHILE rules for flexible health spending accounts have themselves become more flexible, some employees may still have a New Year's deadline for spending their balances. Flexible health spending accounts let [...]