Almost every incorporated physician, dentist, or business owner runs into this question within their first year of incorporation, and most get a different answer depending on who they ask. There’s no single right answer that applies to everyone — but there is a clear framework for working out which one is right for you, and […]

It’s a fair question, and one most financial planners are strangely reluctant to answer directly. If you’re a physician, dentist, or incorporated business owner in Calgary shopping around for financial planning help, you’ve probably noticed that pricing is the one thing that’s hardest to pin down before the first meeting. Here’s a plain answer, along […]

Most incorporated physicians and dentists assume that passing wealth to their children tax-efficiently means waiting for an estate freeze, a will, or a large one-time gift late in life. But there’s a structure available right now — while you’re still building your practice and your holding company — that can start shifting future investment growth […]

Buying a dental practice is often one of the largest financial decisions you’ll make in your career — frequently larger than any single investment, and more consequential than most mortgage decisions. It’s also a decision that tends to move fast once the right opportunity appears, which is exactly when it’s easiest to skip steps. What […]

If you’re a new grad working as an associate, or a few years into practice and telling yourself you’ll “figure out the money side once I have my own practice” — this post is for you. Dentistry has a financial timeline that looks different from most professions: significant training debt, an associate period with commission-based […]

“Should I incorporate?” is one of the most common questions we hear from physicians and dentists — and the honest answer is almost always “it depends on your numbers,” not a blanket yes or no. What follows is the framework we actually use to answer it, so you can tell roughly where you stand before […]

If you’re a resident, a new grad, or a few years into practice and telling yourself you’ll “get serious about money once things settle down” — this post is for you, because things rarely settle down on their own, and the decisions that matter most are easiest to get right in these first few years. […]

Critical illness insurance is one of the more intuitive tools in a physician’s or dentist’s protection plan: get diagnosed with a covered condition, receive a tax-free lump sum, use it however you need. What trips up even sophisticated, incorporated professionals is the Return-of-Premium (ROP) rider — the add-on that promises to hand back some or […]

Most incorporated physicians and dentists think about how much they’re saving long before they think about where each investment should sit. That’s a mistake. Once you’re running a professional corporation, the account an investment lives in — corporate, personal non-registered, or registered — can change its after-tax return as much as the investment choice itself. […]

Most incorporated physicians and dentists spend real effort deciding what to invest their corporate surplus in — index funds, individual equities, GICs, private placements. Far fewer spend any time deciding where those different investments should sit, or what type of income they generate once inside the corporation. That second question, known as asset location, can […]