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	<description>A blog about insurance and financial planning issues in Canada.</description>
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		<title>3 Ways To Teach Kids About Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 17:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to teach kids about money, and most start at home.  Here are 3 that we have found useful.]]></description>
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		<title>Got A Tax Refund?  Think RRSP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got a refund?  Think RRSP If you anticipate receiving a tax refund, you may already be dreaming about how to spend it – maybe a trip or a new IPad.  Here’s a better idea:  use your refund to top up your RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan) and enjoy a bigger nest egg when you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Long Term Care Insurance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Long Term Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Advice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long term care services address the health, social and personal care needs of individuals who have lost the ability to care for themselves. While a certain degree of public support is available, government programs are not comprehensive and long term care services can be costly.  Long term care insurance (LTCI) helps to pay for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Insurance Basics: A new resource</title>
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		<comments>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2011/03/understanding-insurance-basics-a-new-resource/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FAQs from Clients]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is great to see that we are moving further towards consumer education and financial literacy in our country.  A large part of our jobs as financial advisors is to raise the education and awareness of our clients, so they are more comfortable making decisions and more importantly, sticking to their decisions.  A new guide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Client&#8217;s Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Illness Insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a few minutes out of your busy day to really listen.  Our own Deborah Wood introduces you to one of her longest standing, and most grateful clients.]]></description>
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		<title>SmallBizAdvisor.ca launches today</title>
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		<comments>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2011/02/smallbizadvisor-ca-launches-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Group Benefits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.SmallBizAdvisor.ca, brought to you by the editorial teams at Benefits Canada and the Advisor Group, goes live today. This one-stop destination for advisors with small businesses or entrepreneurs as clients addresses important issues surrounding the group benefits and retirement industries from the small business perspective. Featuring regular news articles and in-depth features on relevant small business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A painless way to cut back on expenses</title>
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		<comments>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2011/02/a-painless-way-to-cut-back-on-expenses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cash Flow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortgage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cpfg.ca/blog/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the current economic uncertainty, many people are looking for ways to reduce expenses.  A relatively painless way to reduce your monthly expenses is to have a second look at the way you’re managing your debt. Over time, most of us take out a variety of loans for different purposes.  These can include things like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estate Planning Lessons from the King of Pop</title>
		<link>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2010/12/estate-planning-lessons-from-the-king-of-pop/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=estate-planning-lessons-from-the-king-of-pop</link>
		<comments>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2010/12/estate-planning-lessons-from-the-king-of-pop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Provided by:  Joan Morrow &#38; Jay Llave, advisors at Creative Planning Financial Group Last June’s unexpected death of music icon Michael Jackson offers good lessons on estate planning. What he did right Jackson had a will.  Many people do not.  In Canada, if there’s no will, the provincial law is applied for distributing wealth and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Assignment of an Insurance Policy Presents Problems for the Beneficiary.</title>
		<link>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2010/12/the-assignment-of-an-insurance-policy-presents-problems-for-the-beneficiary/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-assignment-of-an-insurance-policy-presents-problems-for-the-beneficiary</link>
		<comments>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2010/12/the-assignment-of-an-insurance-policy-presents-problems-for-the-beneficiary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life Insurance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creditor protection]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cpfg.ca/blog/?p=279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Joe Gilinsky, FCIS, TEP, RHU I had insured a client and his wife 8 years ago as it was their wish to protect their mortgage in the event of death so that the survivor would be in a position to retire the mortgage if he or she chose to do so. They had decided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Bread Food Bank &#8211; Pre-Holiday Support</title>
		<link>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2010/12/daily-bread-food-bank-pre-holiday-support/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=daily-bread-food-bank-pre-holiday-support</link>
		<comments>http://cpfg.ca/blog/2010/12/daily-bread-food-bank-pre-holiday-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CPFG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In support of the Daily Bread Food Bank&#8216;s annual holiday food drive, we will be organizing a group from CPFG to help sort food at the Daily Bread Food Bank on December 9th from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm.   The Vision and Mission of the DBFB: Fight to end hunger in our communities Provide food [...]]]></description>
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