by Sandi Martin | Sep 18, 2017 | Personal Finance
I sent my kids to school on the day after Labour Day with a feeling that it hadn’t been a great summer. We hadn’t gone swimming or canoeing enough. I worked too much. Woe, etc. This isn’t a new feeling. Friends will testify that I become a mopey sad-sack in the last...
by Julia Chung | Aug 21, 2017 | Personal Finance
Ah, tax strategies. Eyed with hopeful suspicion by the uninitiated, a tax strategy can feel like a fun Spy Vs. Spy game – but that other spy? That’s the government. Many a newly minted spy would consider backing away from anything that might have you facing that...
by Julia Chung | Jun 25, 2017 | Personal Finance
Summer is pretty exciting for most of us here in Canada. No matter which province or territory you live in, the season is often short and spectacular. We save so many things for summer, from barbecues and weddings to vacation days and that book we always wanted to...
by Julia Chung | May 17, 2017 | Personal Finance
Is Life Insurance an investment? Are life insurance salespeople sleazy, money-grubbers who are selling wild strategies without merit? What is going on here? We get asked about this every once in a while. Life Insurance and its salespeople get a bad rap. Some of it is...
by Julia Chung | Mar 8, 2017 | Personal Finance
A year ago today, on March 8 2016, we published the Women & Money ebook in collaboration with Sandi Martin of Spring Personal Finance and Krysten Merriman of ModernAdvisor. A year later, Spring Personal Finance and JYC Financial are in the process of merging....
by Julia Chung | Jan 18, 2017 | Personal Finance, Spring Original
It sounds like an easy question: What do YOU want? Despite popular belief, this question – and no other – should be the force behind your financial plan and your financial decisions. Financial planning is all about finding the answer to, and planning the...
