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posted Wednesday, August 19, 2015
If you run your own business, it makes sense to hire an invisible employee who is always unseen, never comes in late, never calls in sick, never adds to your statutory deductions, will never cost you a dime in severance payments, and will repay you dollar in salary they received if you decide to terminate […]
posted Wednesday, July 8, 2015
The rationale for purchasing life insurance is pretty simple and obvious; you want to make sure that in the event of your premature death your family won’t be saddled with debt or struggle financially. The gap that exists in the financial plan of many families in Canada (quite sadly) is the absence of critical illness insurance; […]
posted Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Most of us are well-intentioned, hard working Canadians. We go to work or run our businesses with vim and vigor; we want to provide for our families and create a bright and prosperous future. The future is created by the actions we take today, and unfortunately too many of us take the attitude of “I will […]
posted Wednesday, April 8, 2015
I have worked in the insurance industry for pretty much my entire working life; I have sold thousands of policies, many of them covering buildings and automobiles. Recently one of my clients (who is also a good friend), bought a new home and I went to over to see the new place and to celebrate […]
posted Monday, March 30, 2015
When I am not busy protecting families with Life & Critical Illness insurance, I host a radio show on a Toronto radio station every Saturday night, and last week I played a song that got me thinking about what I do every day and why. The punch line to the song is “You’ve got to […]
posted Monday, March 2, 2015
Nobody wants to think about becoming disabled but it happens. Most people I have spoken to in my over 20 years working in the insurance industry were concerned about losing their job, having enough money in retirement, loss or damage to their home or vehicle without giving a second thought to what would happen if […]
posted Thursday, February 19, 2015
According to The Canadian Cancer Society a staggering 40% of all Canadians will develop cancer in their lifetime. I was never good with numbers, however it seems to me these days that an alarming number of Canadians are being diagnosed with one form of cancer or the other and the disease doesn’t appear to discriminate. […]
posted Thursday, January 22, 2015
It’s a new year, a time of renewal, a time when many of us make resolutions and set fresh goals. Whether your new year’s resolution involves losing weight, paying down or paying off debt, quitting smoking, or saving for retirement, resolutions not backed by solid plans of action are merely pipe dreams. I encourage everyone […]
posted Monday, January 5, 2015
The movie “A Walk Among the Tombstones” starring Liam Neeson was an excellent flick and a huge take away from the movie for me was the phrase “People are afraid of all the wrong things” In my line of work I meet people every day who are afraid of a number of things ranging from […]
posted Friday, October 17, 2014
David Letterman has a funny segment in his show titled “Didn’t see that coming“, and usually the joke is about something that was bound to happen based on an individual’s prior actions. One of the things I speak to all of my clients about is critical illness insurance because the majority of the people you […]
