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Our blog is where you’ll find posts about investing, tax and financial planning tips, markets and other world and life events in a way that you’ll actually enjoy reading!
COVID: An Uneven – and Unequal – Recovery
Topic:
Human Interest
Excerpt:
Canadians have had enough of the lockdown. Here we are 18 months after you first heard of the then mysterious Wuhan flu. Today, but for any curve ball
The Times They Are a-Changin’
Topic:
Human Interest
Excerpt:
My inaugural blog Time Poverty: Why Are We All So Busy? was excitedly penned and posted December 25th 2015. It was a human interest article, the first
The Great Transition – A Tax Efficient Withdrawal Strategy
Topic:
Tax Planning
Excerpt:
The change from “saver” to “spender” is what I call the great retirement transition. Figuring out how to draw on your retirement savings to meet your
The Burden of Experience in a Modern World
Topic:
Investments
Excerpt:
Those of us who started in the industry decades ago have witnessed enormous change. When I finished university in 1982, Japan was the world’s
Nexus and the ESG Integration Approach
Topic:
Investments
Excerpt:
At Nexus, we think Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) considerations are a helpful input to our investment decision-making process.
The Money Tree: A Twenty-Year Nexus Testimonial
Topic:
Investments
Excerpt:
In 2001, a then twenty-year veteran of the Bay St. investment industry who had received a pretty healthy post-“tech boom”, pre-“tech wreck” bonus,
Living to 100… Is 100 the New 80?
Topic:
Living to 100
Excerpt:
It’s a common saying that there are two certainties in life, death and taxes. While we have a pretty good idea when we get taxed, which feels like all
Onboarding in a Not So Normal World
Topic:
Inside Nexus
Excerpt:
Starting a new job can be nail-biting! We have all done it at some point in our lives and each time it brings a new sense of excitement, questions,
New Year, New Beginnings
Topic:
Inside Nexus
Excerpt:
It is with mixed emotions that we announce the retirement of Jorjan Mead from her position of Administrative Assistant with Nexus.
Is COVID Giving You Scurvy?
Topic:
Human Interest
Excerpt:
The early ocean-going explorers learned the hard way that a lack of vitamin C can give you scurvy. And, according to Wikipedia, “the knowledge that