Build Wealth Canada Podcast
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Build Wealth Canada Podcast
Kornel interviews the top financial experts in Canada to help you optimize your investments, reduce your taxes, and help you accelerate your journey towards financial independence and early retirement. He also shares his own experiences and lessons learned in investing and as an early retiree and me...
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The Canadian Guide to Index Investing & Rethinking Your "Safe" Money
In this episode, my goal was to make it relevant for both types of listeners:
First, for those who are just getting started in do-it-yourself in...
The One Habit Every Financially Independent Person Shares
Links to speak to today's guests:
Thuy Lam: buildwealthcanada.ca/plan
Alanna Abramsky: broadmoney.ca
After conducting hundreds of...
Surviving Stock Market Crashes: Real-World Experiences and Strategies for Canadians
Have you ever felt that knot in your stomach watching the stock market tumble, especially after you’ve just invested some of your hard earned money? H...
The Hidden Barriers Between You and Financial Freedom
Today’s episode is a must-listen for anyone who’s ever felt confused, anxious, or just plain stuck when it comes to money. We're diving deep into the...
How Canada’s Top Finance Creators Actually Invest Their Own Money
Today I’m excited to have a panel discussion with some of the largest personal finance and investing personalities, here in Canada.
Together the...
Important Tax & Investing Changes for 2025 (for Canadians)
Today, we’re going to cover what you need to know from a tax, investing, and financial planning perspective as all our taxes become due here in Canada...
Are You Overpaying on Your Mortgage? New Mortgage Rules, the Impact of Tariffs, and the Fixed vs Variable Rate Mortgage Dilemma
If you own a home, are thinking about buying or selling a home, or have a mortgage renewal coming up, today’s episode is here to help you make the bes...
Planning Your Own Retirement: A Rare Peek into a Canadian Financial Planner’s Playbook
Have you ever wondered how financial planners in Canada plan their own retirement once they decide to retire?
Our guest today is a recurring gue...
How to Optimize Your Investments and Taxes for 2025 (for Canadians)
With the end of the year arriving and the new year starting shortly, there are certain deadlines that you should be aware of every year, from an inves...
The Complexities of Transitioning Your Savings Into Income in Retirement (For Canadians)
Today, we tackle one of the most intricate financial puzzles faced by Canadians: transitioning from accumulating wealth for retirement to effectively...
5 Major Lessons Learned When Managing Your Retirement Finances (In Canada)
On today’s episode we have another Canadian guest, Kyle Prevost, who achieved financial independence at an early age (he was able to pull it off in hi...
Protecting Your Net Worth (For Canadians): What Insurance Do You Need?
We all spend decades accumulating and growing our net worth, along with many hours of research and studying to optimize our investments and minimize o...
Financial Lessons Learned After 10 Years of Interviews on the Build Wealth Canada Podcast
This interview will be a bit different as I was recently interviewed by Financial Journalist, Ellen Roseman from Canadian MoneySaver Magazine where sh...
The Top Money Blind Spots and Questions Canadians Have
In this episode, I interview two professional financial planners to discover what are the most common questions that they receive when working with Ca...
How to Live Off Your Investments in a Sustainable, Stress-Free, and Tax Efficient Way in Canada. Featuring Ed Rempel, CFP
When we first hit our financial independence number 8 years ago, one of the financial planners that I asked to look at our numbers before my wife and...
Avoiding the Yield Trap: Are You Too Focused on Generating Income From Your Investments?
Having your investments pay you large dividends or yield sounds great. It’s truly passive income where money just shows up in your account without you...
How to Prevent Fraud in Your Accounts in Canada
A big thanks to RBC for sponsoring this episode.
We talk a lot about growing our net worth as Canadians, but what about actually protecting our...
The Top Investing Mistakes Canadians Make
When it comes to managing our investment portfolios, there are definitely some mistakes that are easy to make, and ones that a lot of Canadian investo...
How to Save Money on Your Mortgage + 2024 Housing & Interest Rate Update
With inflation slowing down here in Canada, we are starting to hear talks about the Bank of Canada no longer planning to increase our interest rates,...
Important Tax & Investing Changes for 2024 (for Canadians)
Today, we’re going to cover what you need to know from a tax, investing, and financial planning perspective as we head into this new year.
As yo...
Where to Park Your Cash? Regulatory Changes & What Are Your Options in Canada?
We’ve all heard of high interest savings accounts that we can open up at our bank. But is that always our one and only best option when it comes to wh...
How to Live Off Your Investments in Canada - Kyle Prevost
In this episode, you’re going to learn:
How to deal with the volatility of the stock market, once you are financially independent and ar...
4 Steps to a Worry-Free Retirement in Canada - Kyle Prevost
In this episode, our guest Kyle Prevost is going to take us through how much we need to retire, as Canadians, and how much can we sustainably withdraw...
Paying Less in Interest, Getting the Right Mortgage (New or Renewal), Handling the Higher Interest Rates in Canada
With the multiple interest rate hikes that we’ve been experiencing here in Canada, many Canadians have seen their monthly cashflow take a hit, whether...
Lessons on Mastering Money in Canada - Featuring Fred Masters
Today we have Canadian author and speaker Fred Masters on the show. Fred has been a professional financial educator for decades here in Canada. He spe...
How to Optimize Your Investments to Pay the Least in Tax (for Canadians)
Today, you’re going to learn how you can save money on your investments, by having the right investments, in the right accounts so that you pay as lit...
How Much Should You Optimize Your Investment Portfolio? The Pros and Cons of Each Approach
Today, you are going to learn about how much you can save in fees and taxes on your investments, depending on how much time you want to spend optimizi...
Ask Kornel: Should I Switch My Investments? Should I Be Worried? Are My Investments Falling Behind?
Today I’m going to be answering your questions, to help you out as much as I can in the world of personal finance and investing, here in Canada.
...
How to Raise Money Smart Kids, Teens and Young Adults
It’s graduation season here in Canada, so we thought it would be good to focus this episode on parents with kids, those with nieces and nephews, as we...
Active vs. Passive Investing: Interview with S&P (S&P 500, Dow Jones) & How to Choose the Right ETFs
In this episode, I interview S&P, the creator of the S&P 500, Dow Jones, and many other popular indices used around the world by millions of investors...
Financial Independence Case Study and How You Can Retire Early
Today we have a great case study of somebody that I really respect, and who has been able to achieve financial independence, at a really early age.
How to Maximize Your Inheritance in Canada (and minimize your fees)
One critical topic that can have a substantial financial impact on both us and our loved ones, is the subject of inheritance, and how to ensure that y...
A DIY Investor's Guide to Determining Your Financial Independence Number and Sustainable Withdrawal Strategy
Today’s guest is Jason Heath, one of Canada’s best known fee-only financial planners that you’ve probably seen in all sorts of media here in Canada ov...
Rising Interest Rates, New Mortgage Rules, and Variable vs Fixed Mortgages in Canada for 2023
With the significant increase in interest rates over the past year, and with home buying and selling season right around the corner, I thought it woul...
Finding Your Financial Independence Number and How to Live Off Your Portfolio
It's RRSP season here in Canada. Remember that March 1 is the deadline for contributing to an RRSP, and have it count towards your 2022 tax year.
How to Live Off Your Investments and How Much Do You Need? Featuring Ed Rempel
In this episode, I interview one of the most experienced Canadian financial planners that I know, and who I tend to go to when I have any complex tax...
How to Retire in Your 30s on Two Teacher Salaries (A Case Study and Practical Guide)
Today we have another financial independence case study to learn how a real-life couple here in Canada were able to reach their financial independence...
Should You Do Any Active Investing? and a Financial Independence Case Study
Many Canadians tend to dabble in at least a bit of active investing, picking individual stocks, even if they consider themselves primarily total marke...
A Financial Independence Case Study: How to Achieve Early Retirement and Happiness With Jordan Grumet
Today we have a case study of someone that was able to pull off an early retirement (we get to learn how he did it, and apply those lessons to our own...
Best ETFs in Canada - Featuring MoneySense and Ben Felix
One resource that I check out every year is MoneySense’s “Best ETFs in Canada” guide.
They bring on a panel of experts to find Canada’s top ETFs...