Unconventional Wisdom cover art

All Episodes

Unconventional Wisdom — 157 episodes

#
Title
1

Don't Let Today's Headlines Wreck Your Retirement

2

Multi-Millionaire's Dilemma: Stay in Stocks or Go Conservative After Retiring?

3

Living Healthy Past Age 100 – Will Your Retirement Plan Survive?

4

How to Live with Health & Vitality Past Age 100

5

2026 Tax Changes – How They Affect Your Life & Your Retirement Plan

6

New Study Supports 100% Equity Investing for Life (Canadian Financial Summit 2025)

7

What Canadians Are Really Asking About Money Right Now

8

RRSP/RRIF Meltdown Strategies Explained (Canadian Financial Summit 2025)

9

How Did the Wealthy Get Wealthy — and Can I Copy Them? (Canadian Financial Summit 2025)

10

Random Walk Theory Debunked: The Best Market Gains Follow the Worst Crashes – And One Easy Rule to Beat the Market

11

The Fake Stages of Retirement: Why 'Slow-Go' Is Really About Money — Not Age

12

Why Monte Carlo Simulations Get Retirement Risk Wrong

13

Exponential Thinking – How Major Wealth Happens

14

The Meaning of Life - Responsibility

15

Retirement Rookie: Worried about a Market Crash Right After Retiring?

16

Go Big or Go Slow: Why 10x Wealth Is Easier Than 2x

17

Why Renting Could Be Your Secret to Smarter Wealth Building

18

How To Make Your Home A Good Investment

19

Navigating the Financial Advisor Title Trap: Why Fee-For-Service Planners Are the True Superheroes

20

Should I Delay CPP & OAS Until Age 70? – Complete Answer with Real-Life Examples (Updated)

21

Should I start my CPP early? – Real-Life Examples (Updated)

22

Why Don't Most Financial Planners Plan Finances?

23

How to Reliably Maximize Your Retirement Income – Is the "4% Rule" Safe?

24

Financial Advice or Financial Quackery?

25

Journey to Conquer Cancer Walk for Princess Margaret Research in Honour of Ann Hetram

26

Rempel Maximum - The Story of Joe & Rich

27

Rempel Maximum: 5 Steps to Becoming a Multi-Millionaire

28

The Smith Manoeuvre – Is Your Mortgage Tax Deductible?

29

3 Principles of Successful Investors (UPDATED)

30

When Can I Retire With the Lifestyle I Want?

31

Support Top Charities with Ed & Ann's "Best Things First" Foundation

32

Celebrating the Life of Ann Hetram

33

Can You Be Confident in the Stock Market (Updated)

34

How to Donate Effectively and Avoid Telemarketers - Interview with John Bromley, Founder & CEO of Charitable Impact

35

What's New in Tax 2025

36

Realizing You Somehow Became Wealthy

37

Retiring Right Before or During a Recession. Debunking "Sequence of Returns Risk" - Canadian Financial Summit 2024

38

New Study Supports 100% Equity Investing for Life – The Debate

39

How to Easily Outperform Financial Advisors, Robo-Advisors & Index Investors (Canadian Financial Summit 2024)

40

7 Best Ideas to Optimize the Smith Manoeuvre (Canadian Financial Summit 2024)

41

New Study Supports 100% Equity Investing for Life

42

Monthly Fixed Pay ETFs & Funds Are a Brain Fart!

43

RRSP/RRIF Meltdown Strategies

44

How Did the Wealthy Get Wealthy? Can I Copy Them?

45

Lifecycle Investing: The Ultimate Strategy for Younger People – An Example

46

Who Are the Wealthy and How Did They Get Rich?

47

Your FREE passes: See my talks at the #1 online event – Canadian Financial Summit 2024

48

Tax Brackets for Parents & Seniors Are Way Different Than You Think!

49

Do You Need Savings in Addition to a Government Pension Like OMERS?

50

Dividend Investing Perfected with Self-Made Dividends (Canadian Financial Summit 2023)

51

Smith Manoeuvre In A Financial Plan & The New OSFI Rules (Canadian Financial Summit 2023)

52

How To Design Your Retirement Income: An Overview (Canadian Financial Summit 2023)

53

Take Control of Your Finances in One Step

54

Mid-Year Insights 2024

55

Top 5 Hacks To Maximize Your Child's RESP

56

What Happens if the Liberals Attack the Smith Manoeuvre?

57

How Long Will You Live?

58

TFSA or RRSP? – The Right Answer for You (2024)

59

How To Have a Long Lifespan, Healthspan & Wealthspan With 3.0 Level Thinking

60

How To Create a Financial Plan That Is Your Life Plan - Interview with Kornel Szrejber

61

How to Successfully Implement the Smith Manoeuvre (Ed Rempel interviewed by Sean Cooper from "Burn Your Mortgage")

62

How to Avoid or Minimize Extra Tax from New Higher Capital Gains Tax

63

How to Donate Effectively

64

How to EASILY Outperform Financial Advisors

65

Financially Smart Divorce

66

Tenant for Life by Choice: 5 Steps to "Tenant Freedom"

67

Gold Goes DOWN on Inflation

68

What is a Hedge Fund? – Inside the Semi-Secret Hedge Fund World

69

6 Key Lessons Learned as a Fee-For-Service Financial Planner - Talk with Ellen Roseman's Investment Club

70

Your Corporation - What You Need to Know (If You Don't Understand Your Accountant)

71

Should I Start My CPP Early?

72

The 6 Steps to Become Financially Independent

73

How to EASILY Outperform Robo-Advisors

74

5-Year Fixed Mortgage Trap

75

Smith Manoeuvre or Smith Maneuver?

76

Asset Allocation Loss Ratio (AALR) – What Is It & How Does It Help You?

77

Biggest mistakes that could tarnish, or even tank, your credit rating: Interview with Bryn Griffiths from 630 CHED radio

78

The Rempel Maximum - 5 Steps to Becoming a Multi-Millionaire

79

How to EASILY Outperform Index Investors

80

Gambling, Speculating, Saving & Investing - What's the Difference?

81

How to Easily Outperform Financial Advisors, Robo-Advisors & Index Investors

82

The Quest To Find All Star Fund Managers

83

2 Things You Must Focus On To Be Financially Secure

84

Short Overview: RRSP Gross-up Strategy - Easily Contribute 40-70% More to Your RRSP (2024)

85

RRSP Gross-up Strategy - Easily Contribute 40-70% More to Your RRSP

86

Tax Planning for Parents

87

Why Simple Investment Stats Don't Give You Good Returns

88

5 Steps for You to Become Wealthy

89

Smith Manoeuvre - Is Your Mortgage Tax-Deductible?

90

TFSA vs RRSP - Cutting Through the Confusion

91

Dividend Investing Is a Brain Fart

92

What's Important About Money To You?

93

The World is Getting Better All the Time

94

Small Print "Gotcha" in Credit Card Interest (Hint It Can Be 20,000%)!

95

Can You Be Confident in the Stock Market?

96

Why You Should Open an FHSA This Year

97

When Can I Retire With the Lifestyle I Want?

98

How To Live Off Your Investments and How Much Do You Need? Kornel Szrejber interviews Ed on the BuildWealthCanada Podcast

99

Invest a Lump Sum or Bit-by-Bit. Which Is Smarter?

100

Beware of Nice Advisors

101

Above Index Returns - How To Beat The Index

102

Optimism Is the Only Realism

103

Using Your Corporation as Your Retirement Fund

104

Why Most Financial Plans Fail

105

New Retirement Rules of Thumb

106

Insights Into My 3 Talks - Canadian Financial Summit 2023

107

Why the Economy Is Not Relevant To Investing

108

Financial Security Comes From a Huge Nest Egg

109

Risk of Bonds to Your Retirement

110

Self-Made Dividends - Dividend Investing Perfected

111

Top 10 Reasons Why We Don't Invest in Canada

112

The 3 Keys To Building Wealth

113

Financial Quackery

114

Cash Dam - Best Mortgage Strategy if You Own a Small Business or Rental Property

115

Reflecting on My Life & Progress Towards My Mission in Life

116

Make Your Retirement Comfortable - The 8-Year GIS Strategy

117

New OSFI Mortgage Rules – How Do They Affect The Smith Manoeuvre?

118

Millionaires in Poverty

119

The Ultimate Strategy for Millennials - Lifecycle Investing

120

Debunking "Sequence of Returns Risk"

121

How To Choose Your University Specialty

122

15 Top Principles of Money Most People Get Wrong

123

What is the Highest Quality Financial Planning Advice?

124

Dividend Investing Perfected with Self-Made Dividends

125

The High Risk of Bonds

126

Is Your Money Safe OR Secure?

127

How to Donate 10 Times More with the Donation Flow-Through Strategy

128

How to Own a Nice Car for Less

129

Today's Buying Opportunity for Stocks

130

The Ultimate Status Symbol & Making a Difference in the World

131

How To Get Passive Income With Little or No Tax

132

How To Be Smart With Your Money in Your 20s & 30s

133

Are You Poor, Middle Class, or Wealthy?

134

Smith Manoeuvre AFTER You Retire

135

Top 10 Things to Know to Be in Control of Your Finances

136

Is Typical Retirement Advice Good Advice?

137

Top 17 Investment Strategies - Do They Work?

138

How to Afford the Life You Want

139

The Smith Manoeuvre

140

Top 10 Money Myths That Block Your Financial Freedom

141

Rental Property vs Stock Market - What's the Best Investment?

142

Does Borrowing to Invest Make Sense with High Interest Rates?

143

What's New for Your 2022 Tax Return

144

How to Easily Outperform Investment Advisors & Robo-Advisors

145

Investment Risk That Affects Your Life vs Investment Industry Risk

146

LIT FIRE! Create Financial Independence & Retire Early with Lifecycle Investing

147

Why Is Inflation Scarier Than a Market Crash?

148

Best Ways to Get a Bigger Tax Refund

149

Bank Collapses for Dummies. Is Your Money Safe?

150

Top 15 Hacks for Your First Home Savings Account aka The "Renter's RRSP"

151

What Financial Question Is on Your Mind?

152

Why You Need A Growth Mindset

153

How to Design Your Retirement Income

154

5 Best Ideas To Optimize The Smith Manoeuvre

155

How Does a Financial Plan Help You?

156

Meet Ed Rempel

157

Welcome to the Unconventional Podcast with Ed Rempel