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About Rob Carrick
Rob Carrick has been a personal finance columnist for The Globe and Mail for 14 years and has been writing about investing, business and economics for more than two decades. Rob writes three columns a week for The Globe, and he's on Facebook and Twitter).
Rob is the author of the book How Not to Move In With Your Parents: The Young Person's Complete Guide to Financial Empowerment. He is also the author of Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today, and several other books. Rob has a BA in political science from York University, an honours BA in journalism from Carleton University and is a graduate of the Canadian Securities Course. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and two sons.
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March 8, 2013
- Masters of Money
Retirement and Money Part 5 – Make Peace with the Stock Market
You’re entitled to be sick of the stock market by the time you retire. All those decades of rallies and crashes. Making money, losing money. It’s stressful enough to endure these ups and downs while you’re still working and have time to save more for retirement. MORE
Tagged Investing, Retirement Savings, stock market
March 7, 2013
- Masters of Money
Retirement and Money Part 4 – The Risks of Retiring with Debt
You don’t easily shock a personal finance columnist with close to 15 years of experience. But the number of people retiring while still owing money on mortgages and lines of credit is a stunner. MORE
Tagged Debt, Old Age Security, retirement
February 26, 2013
- Masters of Money
Rob on Retirement Savings
Think you’re preparing for retirement? Hoping you will have enough? Rob Carrick responds to user submitted questions on retirement savings and planning. MORE
February 21, 2013
- Masters of Money
Retirement and Money Part 3 – Homes and Retirement Income
One of the great modern day financial delusions is that the value of your home will help pay for your retirement. This will not happen for most people. Face it now and start saving properly for your senior years using tax-free savings accounts or registered retirement savings plans. MORE
February 14, 2013
- Masters of Money
Retirement and Money Part 2 – Home Buyers’ Plan, or TFSA?
It’s bizarre how easy it is to plunder your retirement savings to buy a house. Just use the federal government’s Home Buyers’ Plan, which allows first-time buyers to withdraw up to $25,000 from their registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) to buy a home. MORE
Tagged Buying a Home, Home Buyers Plan, retirement, RRSPs, TFSAs
