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Saving and investing for later
Connect goals, risk, costs and account rules before reading a projection.
Make this path your own
You can begin with a small amount or simply learn the rules. There is no required account sequence and no promised return. If essential spending exceeds income, Everyday money may be the more useful first stop.
Explore the steps
- Time and compounding: separate deposits from growth
Separate your deadline, your contributions and assumed growth.
- Investment risk: what could go wrong, and when?
Think about the losses you can afford as well as those you can tolerate.
- Investment fees: what those percentages cost
Read percentages as costs and avoid subtracting embedded fees twice.
- RRSP basics: contributions, deductions and withdrawals
Distinguish contributions, deductions and eventual withdrawals.
- RRSP vs TFSA: compare the account rules
Compare account rules while keeping the investment holding separate.
- Return assumptions: make the uncertainty visible
Read scenarios as assumptions and include weak outcomes.
- CPP/QPP, OAS and workplace pensions: the pieces of retirement income
Collect personal pension estimates instead of relying on advertised maximums.
One useful thing to take away
Choose a question to resolve, the record or source that could answer it, and one next action. You can return here at any time; there is no completion score.
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