Personal Finance

Preparing the guest list can be the hardest part of the whole planning process, but there’s no cause for despair. It’s the single highest-impact wedding element to economize. Guest numbers are the largest individual component of the entire wedding price, because each guest increases the costs in the major expense areas — venue and catering.

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The summer is in full bloom but the beginning of another school year is not that far from now, which means you're one year closer to graduating and starting your career. What you do throughout the school years, though, can significantly influence how successful you'll be in your career.

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In last week's article we discussed how to talk with your child about their financial situation. Once you've initiated the conversation and are willing to financially assist your adult child, here's the next step you should take...

It is bound to be awkward, but if kids expect their parents to be forthcoming with financial assistance, the  parents need to have an idea of where their children are financially. Simply laying out their student-loan totals to demonstrate how poor they are isn't enough information. You and the children need to figure out their overall financial situation. It cannot be a simple single question, "Here's how much I need for my goal, can you afford to pay it?"...

There are many misconceptions Canadians who live a cross-border lifestyle have about living, visiting, and investing in the United States. In his best-selling book, The Border Guide. The Ultimate Guide to Living, Working, and investing across the Border, Robert Keats aims at dispelling some of the more common cross-border misconceptions:...

Do you find yourself living from paycheck to paycheck? Do you worry about how you can make your next credit card payments? Even worse, do you feel helpless when you try to think about how you'll ever manage to retire at 65 (let alone “freedom 55”) or do you try not to think about it all? Most important, do you feel overwhelmed at the idea of coming up with a personal budgeting kit...

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Only seven steps can take you to the wedding of your dreams – on a budget!...

If you're one of the lucky bride or grooms-to-be getting married this summer, you're likely spending your free time meeting with vendors, checking out venues, tasting cakes (and hopefully wine!), and choosing blooms. A process that starts out fun but can quickly turn overwhelming. The truth is, weddings are a MULTIBILLION-dollar industry that is trying to persuade you to buy buy buy. It's hard not to get carried away when millions of marketing dollars are screaming: “It's your big day!” and to “Go nuts!”...

As people live longer, healthier, more active lives these days, it is not at all unusual to see marriages between individuals in their 60s, 70s and beyond. If you are among these happy folks, it is important that you turn your mind to estate planning. Booking the honeymoon in the Bahamas or working on the guest list is a lot more fun than thinking about your eventual demise, but there are plenty of people in your life who are depending on you to get this right, legally and financially...