It started before the kid was even born. In the month leading up to my child's birth I was a bit of a mad woman – working like crazy to meet all of my deadlines ahead of time, lest the kid make an early arrival – and the phone wouldn't ...

Investment knowledge is a handy thing. I always knew it would be useful but I never imagined that it would help me in my early days of new parenthood too. It took years for any financial advisor to look twice at my family with the thought that we ...

Need RESP help? After years of writing about Registered Education Savings Plans on his award-winning Money Smarts website, Mike Holman wrote the book you need to reference. ...

Getting the kids ready to go back to school can put a real strain on the piggy bank. New shoes, new books, new this and new that -- it's easy to forget about the long-term financial costs of your children's education, particularly if you hope to send ...

Everyone frets about the February RRSP contribution deadline but the Dec. 31 deadline for making contributions to a Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) often gets overlooked in the December holiday frenzy. If you've started an RESP for your ...

It's been a busy year for accountant Selva Perera, 45, who lives and works in Brampton, Ontario. His wife, Vasudha, 43, has had a pretty eventful year too. (We've changed their names to protect their privacy.) Six years after arriving to Canada from ...

WalletPop Canada welcomes guest blogger Neil Jain, who explains how parents can take advantage of the under-utilized Registered Education Savings Plan program, and benefit from government grants. By Neil Jain, President, Money Life Skills It's ...

We looked at StatsCan's latest numbers on undergraduate tuition fees by province, and decided it was worth looking at the same numbers, organized by profession. We were curious to see if medicine and dentistry still top the list (they do) and where ...