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September 19, 2023
Market Insights
Safeguarding Your Retirement: The Benefits of Critical Illness Insurance Planning for retirement is a lifelong endeavor requiring careful consideration of various financial elements. One often-overlooked component of retirement planning is preparing for the…
July 31, 2023
Market Insights
Sean Westley
The Evolution of Private and Public Markets
As we continue to analyze the investment landscape going into this post-pandemic era, it is important to recognize how markets are evolving in both the public and private sectors. The Public Markets The public markets are traded on exchanges that are easily…
May 28, 2023
Market Insights
INWP
Innova Grows
Innova Grows Written on 28 May 2023. Posted in Market Insights. We continue to experience strong growth and remain committed to providing our clients with exceptional customer service. Our mission to provide you with absolute peace of mind relies heavily on…
March 17, 2023
Market Insights
INWP
Banks, Busts and Bear Markets
What a difference a day can make! SVB was the ‘cool cat’ of the financial world, focused on technology, venture capital, and entrepreneurs. Following some bad investments in long-term bonds (We tried to warn them!), they eroded their capital reserves and were…
January 04, 2023
Market Insights
INWP
Innova: 2022 Year in Review
With Covid lockdowns seemingly in the rear view, most people began the year with optimism…but 2022 had other plans. It saw what 2021 threw at us, then said ”hold my beer”. Three of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse joined us within the first three months of…
November 29, 2022
Market Insights
Laura Schmidt
What is the tax-free First Home Savings Account (FHSA) and how does it work?
What is it? In the 2022 Budget, the federal government proposed the launch of a new registered savings account to give Canadian potential first-time homebuyers the ability to save $40,000 toward their purchase tax-free, which, given Canada’s exceedingly high…
May 13, 2022
Market Insights
Jean-François
Recessions & Risk
“The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.” - Daniel Kahneman There has been no shortage of scary headlines regarding the economy and the markets. The dreaded ‘R’ word is rolling across tickers, as news pundits…
September 02, 2021
Market Insights
Laura Schmidt
Family Cottage Planning
As cottage season gradually approaches a close, it’s a great time to talk about capital gains, taxation and financial planning for homeowners who also own a cottage property. We never like to think of the worst coming to pass, but if you own a cottage, it’s a…
June 15, 2021
Market Insights
INWP
The 'Wisdom' of the Crowds
Markets at all-time highs, multiple offers on all things real estate, lumber price sticker shock… All occurring while many of us are still barred from visiting friends and family! What’s going on and can it continue? In this month’s Innova Market Insights, we…
March 15, 2021
Market Insights
INWP
The Great Rotation?
The Great Rotation? It’s been an interesting few weeks on the markets with the high-flyers of 2020 taking a few steps back and the browbeaten underperformers of Covid driving the market ever higher. The following is a quick snapshot of some of the market’s…
February 03, 2021
Market Insights
INWP
CoViD Work from Home Tax Tips
Working from home through CoViD? We’re looking ahead in this month’s IMI to help ensure you get the best deductions possible in exchange for being trapped inside for the past 11 months!!! Due to the exceptional circumstances last year, CRA has made available…
January 04, 2021
Market Insights
INWP
2020 Business Review
What can be said about 2020… “The worst year ever” has been thrown around a lot, and for the marginalized, those sequestered in long-term cares, and those with young kids trapped inside the house, it certainly felt like it at times. As students of history, it…
December 04, 2020
Market Insights
INWP
Echoes of the Dot Com Bubble Burst
Wow! What a whirlwind these past few weeks. Although the Blue Wave did not materialize, it would appear that we are, most likely, heading to a Democrat controlled White House come 2021. Despite the contentious election, a divided house and senate, and a…
October 10, 2020
Market Insights
INWP
Bothersome Bonds
“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.”— Warren Buffett In times of “peak uncertainty”, it is often tempting to run for the hills and put all your money under the mattress or, in the investment world, move to cash…
July 14, 2020
Market Insights
Jean-François
FOMO Rally
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” - Benjamin Graham When the big ball dropped announcing the New Year, the general consensus for the S&P500, the U.S.’ largest stock market, was that while…
March 26, 2020
Market Insights
Jean-François
CoViD & Corrections
“The time to buy is when there is blood in the street. Even your own.” - John D. Rockefeller Understandably, the past few months have been a time of great uncertainty and anxiety for all investors. Retirees and even those with decades of investing ahead of…