by Julia Chung | Sep 23, 2019 | Cash Flow, Investing, Monthly Spring Update, Personal Financial Planning
Phew! What is with September? All that back to school/back to work/questioning where time even went after much lounging (we hope!) throughout the brief but spectacular Canadian summer can be A LOT. Thankfully, your team at Spring Plans is here to help you wade through...
by Julia Chung | Aug 26, 2019 | Cash Flow, Investing, Monthly Spring Update, Personal Finance
Are you READY for September??? No, neither are we. In a work sense, absolutely, but are we done with summer? Not at all. For that reason, your team at Spring Plans brings you… a newsletter with the goal of extending that warmest of seasons for just a little bit...
by Julia Chung | Jul 22, 2019 | Cash Flow, Investing, Monthly Spring Update, Personal Finance
We love, love, love summer. It might seem odd, given that our name is “Spring,” but there is a method to the madness. See, we love summer so much that we spend a lot of time planning for it, to get it right and to maximize our enjoyment. It is the same approach we...
by Sandi Martin | May 23, 2019 | Design Thinking, Investing, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning
“How should I think about investing?” is a question I wish a lot more people would ask. Why? Because there is so much more to investing – investing well – than what you should put in your portfolio and who you should get to manage it for you. Oh great, I...
by Julia Chung | Jan 22, 2018 | Accountability, Big Picture, Investing, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning
Oh, January. The calendar New Year starts smack-dab in the middle of winter, and as much as we try to gear up and get excited about this first month, there’s something so exhausting about January. It’s cold. The bills from the holidays are rolling in. We had holidays...
by Sandi Martin | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, Investing, Management Expense Ratio, Personal Finance
The point: Yes, your own bad investing behaviour costs you, but your advisor’s bad investing behaviour has the potential to cost you a lot more. First off: I’m not a portfolio manager or an investment advisor (or adviser, for what it’s worth). I was...
