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Navigation: The site is organized along major financial categories: Getting started; Personal finance; Financial management; Financial planning; Investment management; Retirement planning; Reference material. You can also look at our navigation page, use the Search box if you are looking for something specific, or see the Complete list of articles.
The key concept of this area is to introduce ourselves at a high level only -- geared to the new visitor. Short and concise
Getting started and personal finance
Working with finances and investments can be a baffling and humbling experience. You don't understand the material and are unable to distinguish good information from bad.
If you are looking for guidance, begin your journey with getting started. This article is the staring point to provide information in a simple and understandable format. You'll be able to handle finances on your own and at minimal cost.
- Budgeting and an Emergency fund
- Debit cards and Credit cards
- High-interest savings account
- Owning vs renting
- Insurance
- Creating a financial plan
- Investing plan for short term goals
Notre porte d'entrée en français : Prendre en main ses finances et commencer à investir
Investing
Investing involves building and managing a portfolio typically containing several asset classes such as equities, fixed income and cash. This is done to meet the investor's goals, which are defined as part of a financial planning process. The asset classes are combined into an asset allocation, which forms part of an investment policy statement.
The article portfolio design and construction serves as a general entry point for topics in the investment management category. Other important articles include diversification, investment strategy, investment styles, rebalancing, risk and return, simple index portfolios.
Commonly employed portfolio building blocks include exchange-traded funds (including asset allocation ETFs), and mutual funds (including index funds and balanced funds).
Retirement planning and living in retirement
Retirement is one of the major events in many people's lives, involving not only a change in lifestyle but in many cases a reduction in income or change in sources of income. These changes generally require consideration in the pre-retirement period. It should be part of your financial plan.
Canada's retirement income system has three main tiers or "pillars". Tier 1 consists of government benefits, namely old age security and the guaranteed income supplement for low-income seniors. Tier 2 is composed of mandatory public pension plans, i.e. the Canada Pension Plan or the Québec Pension Plan. Tier 3 consists of mandatory to voluntary savings schemes such as workplace pension plans, registered retirement savings plans, and other accounts (see tax deferred and tax free savings plans) which can be used for retirement savings.
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We encourage newcomers who may have little knowledge of finance. There are no stupid questions. We were all beginners once.
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See also
- User:LadyGeek/Main Page for an alternative approach/proposal. The discussion page has lots of other background and ideas.