Rob Carrick

You should have receipts or records of improvements you plan to include in your ACB, but evidence in a photo may help support the claim that you made capital improvements

Quite a few big blue-chip dividend stocks have slumped badly in the past year or more, hurting returns from dividend ETFs that hold a significant weighting in them

Experts say the impact of the capital-gains tax increase are more likely to be felt by long-term investors than those who are flipping properties

Housing, taxes, open banking, education: Let’s grade the budget on how it affects you and your household

A roundup of investment ideas for active investors

The devaluing of the term ‘millionaire.’ Lots of people have $1M in net worth thanks to their home equity, but they are not financially independent

A roundup of investment ideas for active investors

Rob Carrick says investing in blue chips and other stocks is not betting, but it does require people to make decisions that have a significant chance of going wrong

The Bloom Home Equity Prepaid Mastercard from Bloom Finance Co. gives people the option to pay for something with the card and the amount is added to your reverse mortgage

Loonie at 73.61 U.S. cents

It is a way to capture the yield of out-of-favour dividend stocks in a diversified way that limits risk somewhat

To clarify who needs to file a T3 and who does not, I asked Pam Prior, a tax partner at KPMG in Vancouver, to answer some reader questions

A roundup of investment ideas for active investors

Rob Carrick on mortgages, travel and the cost of parenting

RBC Economic report says 68 per cent of all Canadian households can’t afford to buy a home right now, while high rental costs mean some Canadians may never save enough to buy a home

Here’s what happened when I gave it a try with some assistance from tax specialist Yannick Lemay of H&R Bloc

Inflation and higher house prices among changes in the financial world since the Canada Deposit Insurance Corp. set its deposit insurance limit in 2005

Rob Carrick says the introduction of pay transparency rules may help improve the gender wage gap

CRA wants to reduce tax evasion and money laundering, instead it created a complex, technical process that most people should not have to go through

Don’t ignore alternative ways to cash in on high-flying equities