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Cole Desgagnes
Cole Desgagnes
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CFP®
Building your financial future – together
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As a planner with TD Wealth Financial Planning, I am passionately committed to providing my clients a fully integrated financial plan that balances living life today with setting goals for tomorrow. I take the time to understand, not just their current financial circumstances, but also the objectives and motivations integral to it. Whether you are planning for retirement or starting a new business, I am here to help guide you every step of the way.
In my role, I focus on four key areas:
- Build net worth – Identifying investment solutions that align to my clients’ evolving needs.
- Implement tax-efficient strategies – Working with my clients to help create and structure their accounts to help reduce tax exposure while keeping income available for when it’s needed.
- Protect what matters – Leveraging the expertise of TD specialists, I help integrate strategies to protect what matters to my clients.
- Leave a legacy – Helping my clients to build a plan to effectively transfer their wealth.
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TDAM: Tax & Retirement Planning Guide
At TD Asset Management Inc. (TDAM), we understand the importance of tax planning to investors. There are many tax-efficient investment vehicles available to Canadians to help maximize after-tax income and grow their investment portfolios.
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Our wealth solutions focus on four key areas in order to ensure you receive a personalized financial plan you can feel confident in.
Build net worth: We can help you build your net worth by developing effective strategies and investment solutions that align to your needs, even as they evolve.
Protect what matters: By leveraging the expertise of TD specialists, we can integrate strategies to help you protect what matters to you most at every life stage.
Implement tax-efficient strategies: We can work with you to help create and structure your accounts to help reduce tax exposure while keeping income available for when you need it.
Leave a legacy: Your legacy is important to us. We’ll help you create a plan that provides for your top priorities and optimizes the transfer of your wealth.
Build net worth: We can help you build your net worth by developing effective strategies and investment solutions that align to your needs, even as they evolve.
Protect what matters: By leveraging the expertise of TD specialists, we can integrate strategies to help you protect what matters to you most at every life stage.
Implement tax-efficient strategies: We can work with you to help create and structure your accounts to help reduce tax exposure while keeping income available for when you need it.
Leave a legacy: Your legacy is important to us. We’ll help you create a plan that provides for your top priorities and optimizes the transfer of your wealth.
The goals and dreams you and your family share for your work and career, well-being, home, lifestyle and legacy.
Over time, you may find that your needs and goals change. TD Wealth Financial Planning has the expertise to help you stay on track. As we continue to meet with you, we’ll introduce new strategies to adapt your financial plan to those changes. We look forward to developing a relationship with you in order to understand your goals and aspirations and design a plan that continues to meet your current needs and future goals.
Lynn – The Gift of Planning
Protecting what matters
When experiencing a difficult situation and looking for financial security, finding the right advisor can be a critical step toward making it easier. TD Wealth helped Lynn’s dad make sure everything was in place for when he was gone.
Lynn believes in the value of planning, as her father worked with TD Wealth to prepare his finances and plan for the future of his daughter, making a very difficult life experience easier.
Contact me today to find out how I can help you feel reassured in your financial future.
When experiencing a difficult situation and looking for financial security, finding the right advisor can be a critical step toward making it easier. TD Wealth helped Lynn’s dad make sure everything was in place for when he was gone.
Lynn believes in the value of planning, as her father worked with TD Wealth to prepare his finances and plan for the future of his daughter, making a very difficult life experience easier.
Contact me today to find out how I can help you feel reassured in your financial future.
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