{"id":17530,"date":"2019-11-14T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/half-of-canadians-confident-they-can-manage-investments-in-retirement-survey-138935"},"modified":"2019-11-14T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T20:20:59","slug":"half-of-canadians-confident-they-can-manage-investments-in-retirement-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/14\/half-of-canadians-confident-they-can-manage-investments-in-retirement-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Canadians confident they can manage investments in retirement: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Retirement-hands.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Half of Canadians confident they can manage investments in retirement: survey\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"><span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;November 14, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Many Canadians are interested in learning&nbsp;more about how to manage their money as they make the transition to retirement, according to a new survey by Mackenzie Investments.<\/p>\n<p>About half (47 per cent) of baby boomers said they want to know more about how to make the transition to retirement. This age group is slightly more confident&nbsp;than the average Canadian, with 61 per cent of&nbsp;all respondents saying the same.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/canadas-retirement-system-ranked-9th-in-the-world-137697\">Canada\u2019s retirement system ranked 9th in the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Less than a quarter of survey respondents said they\u2019re very familiar with how the Canada Pension Plan works, how they\u2019ll be taxed in retirement and how to manage registered retirement savings plans or registered retirement income funds. And slightly more than&nbsp;half (53 per cent) said they\u2019re confident they\u2019ll be able to manage their investments during their retirement years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs people approach retirement it\u2019s clear that there\u2019s more of a premium put on the value of advice as areas like tax and estate planning and optimizing investments during retirement take on added importance,\u201d&nbsp;said Carol Bezaire, vice-president of tax, estate and strategic philanthropy at Mackenzie Investments, in a press release.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/half-of-canadians-confident-they-can-manage-investments-in-retirement-survey-138935\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;November 14, 2019 Many Canadians are interested in learning&nbsp;more about how to manage their money as they make the transition to retirement, according to a new survey by Mackenzie Investments. About half (47 per&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}