Law

Feed the income hungry

Editorial: Ultra-low interest rates limit choices for conservative investors

By Melissa Shin |May 9, 2014

2 min read

Should this client sue?

Janine is a top civil engineer at a prestigious Canadian firm. She accepted an offer from a competing company that gave her a better title and a 20% raise.

By Evelyn Juan |April 4, 2014

3 min read

Another major law firm to collapse

A confidential source cited by the Legal Post says Deloitte has studied the Canadian law industry and concluded a major Canadian law firm will bite the dust this year.

By Staff |March 14, 2014

1 min read

Client collapses trust to fund daughter’s education

Elsa Koertig, 48, is a single mom and schoolteacher in Moose Jaw, Sask. She earns $65,000 annually and her daughter Ingrid is heading to university. Ingrid’s straight As and clean sweep of provincial and national science fairs caught the attention of Ivy League schools, and her heart’s set on Princeton. She’s earned generous scholarships, but even after factoring in RESPs, the family faces a $10,000 annual shortfall. Elsa’s coming off a messy divorce and is saddled with mortgage, car and other debt payments. But if she could access the $100,000 stock-and-bond portfolio her deceased parents left her in trust, she’d be able to send Ingrid to Princeton. Elsa’s foggy on the details. She knows how much is in the trust, and remembers her parents saying they wanted it to fund her retirement. Can she tap the trust sooner?

By Dean DiSpalatro |March 7, 2014

4 min read