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Retirement Readiness Simplified + Severance and Pensions 

Learn how to create your retirement blue print and how pensions and severance pay outs fit into the picture.

Created byAnna Knight, CFP
BeginnerUpdated Nov 19, 2021

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleBEING CLEAR HOW PENSIONS FIT INTO OVERALL RETIREMENT PLANNING
  • check_circleOVERVIEW OF ALL RETIREMENT INCOME AVAILABLE TO YOU
  • check_circleEXPLANATION HOW PRODUCTS WITH GURANTEES FIT INTO THE RETIREMENT PLANNING PICTURE
  • check_circleGUIDE SO THAT YOU CAN DETERMINE HOW MUCH INCOME YOU WILL NEED TO SLOW DOWN AND
  • check_circleUNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF RETIREMENT PLANNING
  • check_circleEDUCATING YOU ON THE DIFFERENT PENSIONS YOU CAN BE A MEMBER OF AN
  • check_circleWALKING YOU THROUGH YOUR PENSION OPTIONS AT RETIREMENT AND HOW EACH IMPACTS YOUR INCOME AND YOUR ESTATE

About This Course

In this hands-on retirement planning course, you will be guided through all the areas you need to consider when starting to plan for your "mature years". Questions like, where do I start or how much do I need to be able to slow down, will be answered. To enhance this process, we have added an in-depth pension and severance course to this. As both pieces play a key role in retirement planning. If you are serious about planning for the retirement YOU deserve, don't miss this information.

NOTE: This is a combination course from our 2 popular courses: Retirement Readiness and Pension and Severance Simplified.

Course Content

2 activities • 18 videos • duration: 2h 15m

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Retirement Readiness Simplified-Part18 videos • 1.2 hours
  • videocamRetirement Readiness Simplified Intro
    Duration 1:18
  • videocamWhy is it Important to Plan
    Duration 4:51
  • videocamDetermine Required Income Level
    Duration 4:04
  • videocamUnderstand your income source
    Duration 2:55
  • videocamPensions
    Duration 24:30
  • videocamPersonal Savings and Other Income Level
    Duration 16:20
  • videocamInvestment Products that provide a layer of added security
    Duration 8:42
  • videocamLet's Put it All Together
    Duration 6:56
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Severance and Pensions-Part110 videos • 1.1 hours

Your Instructor

Anna Knight, CFP

Speaker ■ Coach ■ Writer ■ Business Owner ■ Financial Planner ■ Creator of Prosperity Retreats

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Anna Knight is the Founder, Severance and Pension Specialist and Certified Financial Planner at Simplicity Financial (www.simplicityfinancial.ca).   She started Simplicity Financial with over 20 years of industry experience to empower Canadians to take charge of and have pride in their finances. She is a trusted source of financial advice to her clients and key associates and strives to be the same for the community at large.   To learn more, please visit www.simplicityfinancial.ca     To elevate her impact and reach, Anna delivers her money management and wealth-building courses to corporations and a number of organizations online through her carefully curated courses. She also shared her valuable and time-tested wealth-building strategies in her latest book "The Million Dollar Difference" and collaborated with her colleague to create a 30-day financial healing journal, "My Financial Wellness Journal." In her well-established private practice, Anna offers fee-for-service financial planning guidance or gets retained by her clients to manage their financial affairs.    ​To implement the simple yet powerful financial plan, Anna has partnered with some industry leaders. ​To provide investment management advice, Anna is a Financial Advisor with Desjardins Financial Independent Network.  If her plans call for alterations or adding new life insurance solutions, Anna works as an Insurance Broker with Desjardins Financial Independent Network.    ​Before setting up her own independent practice, Anna worked for ICM, another independent MFDA dealer for several years, and Royal Bank of Canada, National Bank and Manulife Financial before that. She has not only extensive education in her field but also years of hands-on experience. ​As a wellness and fitness enthusiast, world explorer and dancer and mom, Anna ensures to keep on creating a work-life balance and encourages her clients to do the same. 

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.4 out of 5
Student's Choice
213 reviews
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    Rose B.
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    Good presentation , very clear and concise but felt the 2nd half repeated a lot of the first half. A definite must to update this is 2025 values, even though a lot of the content would be the same and all courses should have the CC option

  • KS
    Kevin S.
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    A very good overview of pension and investment options that I can use as I approach retirement.

  • MS
    Miroslaw S.
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    Important and difficult concept well presented.

  • NS
    Nancy S.
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    Very valuable information

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