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Canadian Physician Financial Wellness Conference 2022

September 12, 2022 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts

Come join us at the 2022 Canadian Physician Financial Wellness Conference. It is a virtual conference with a star-studded line[…]

Financial Health To Balance Your Career & Help Prevent Burn-Out

September 2, 2022 The Loonie Doctor Basic Financial Curriculum, Basic Financial Health, Featured Posts

Work-life balance and burn-out have been major issues for professionals for some time. Recently, there have been more attempts to[…]

Is The Canada Pension Plan A Good Investment For The Self-Employed?

August 19, 2022 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts, Financial Anatomy 101

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is paid into by all Canadians earning personal income through work. For incorporated professionals, there[…]

The Self-Employed & CPP: A Pension or A Tax?

August 17, 2022 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts, Financial Anatomy 101

When a self-employed person collects personal income, they have to pay into the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). This can be[…]

Kick Work-Life-Imbalance’s Ass: Find Your Karate.

February 12, 2021 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts, Loonie Bin

With a busy career and family life, self-care can suffer. Karate was a good strategy to restore balance for my family and I. Find out why and how to find your own “karate”.

Time for Capital Gains Harvesting From Your Corporation?

September 19, 2020 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts, Financial Planning Physiology

Conventional wisdom is to avoid realizing capital gains in order to defer taxation as long as possible. However, there are[…]

SORR (Seqencing Risk) Reduction Using Cash Flow Strategies

February 28, 2020 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts, Financial Planning Physiology

The sequence of returns risk (SORR), or sequencing risk, is the risk that you will be unlucky and have lousy[…]

Asset Allocation Strategies To Attenuate Sequence of Returns Risk.

February 14, 2020 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts, Financial Planning Physiology

In the preceding post, I described the sequence of returns risk – the risk that you will get unlucky around[…]

Volatility & Risk Part 2: Sequence of Returns Risk

January 31, 2020 The Loonie Doctor Featured Posts, Financial Planning Physiology

The sequence of returns risk is a mathematical risk that is caused by cashflow and magnified by volatility. It peaks as we approach and shortly after we’ve arrived at our financial destination.