ANSR Investment Group

Explore our Women's Workbook

We’ve created a practical guide designed to comprehensively assess your financial health and identify actionable steps you can take to build more confidence in your plans for tomorrow. The workbook also contains several hands-on worksheets you can use to write your own financial story.

Download the women and wealth wealth insights guide

ANSR Investment Group

The ANSR Investment Group uses a top-down approach in investment selection beginning with the overall economic and geopolitical landscape. By identifying potential problems that may arise and finding areas that might benefit from current situations; we sculpt our portfolios attempting to avoid said problems while seizing the opportunities.

Thematic investing is derived from this and helps us to identify upcoming macro trends that are based on foreign and domestic policies, interest rates, inflation, and other economic indicators.

Risk mitigation is paramount to our investment management. Use of investment vehicles designed to reduce volatility and proper position sizing often help to provide stability in volatile markets.

An empowered approach

Our goals-based wealth planning approach is designed to ultimately help you achieve your vision and live empowered. Working together, we identify strategies to help grow your wealth, fund your lifestyle today and tomorrow, protect what's important to you and create your legacy.

Our approach features four financial pillars to help guide you through your life stages:

Accumulate and grow your wealth

Working toward tomorrow, define your goals, plan, save and invest. Review your finances regularly. Build and maintain an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.

As you approach retirement, take advantage of catch-up contributions and align investments to offset inflation.

In your encore years, review and understand the probable outcome of your wealth plan and consider consolidating accounts to simplify your financial life.

Fund your lifestyle

In the early stages, avoid or eliminate unproductive debt. Fund but defer health savings account spending until retirement.

Approaching retirement, create a retirement plan for your paycheck as well as a budget for your expenses.

In your later years, plan for your distributions and manage your spending to cover your needs.

Protect what's important to you

At first, evaluate and consider your options for various types of insurance, ranging from health, disability, life and long-term care insurance.

Closer to retirement, re-evaluate your insurance needs and use credit strategically.

Enroll in Medicare at 65 and claim Social Security at 70. Avoid selling assets in down markets. Discuss your care wishes with your loved ones.

Create your legacy

Establish a will, power of attorney, health care directive and revocable trust. Check your beneficiary designations. Consider a charitable giving plan that aligns with your values.

Near retirement, revisit your estate planning documents and beneficiary designations. Have plans for housing and care needs.

After retiring, check that your estate plan aligns with your wishes. Understand your estate and gift tax thresholds.

It all starts and ends with you

Contact us today to learn more about our wealth management approach and how we can help you achieve your goals.

Global Insight Monthly

Imbalancing act

Running up debts to buy foreign goods is unsustainable in the long term. Identifying the problem is simple, but we see no easy or quick escape for the U.S. from the imbalances built up over the last four decades. Read the Global Insight Monthly »

Wondering what to do with excess 529 savings?

If you’ve saved diligently for a family-member’s education—and he or she does not need help funding education expenses—the 529 Plan savings can still be used without tax penalties. You could transfer funds to another child, to a niece/nephew or a grandchild. Or, see if room, board and textbook costs can be covered. You might even be able to pay for college credits for a qualifying gap year program. Contact us to discuss your education savings options in more detail.

The financial impact of dementia

Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline have a devastating impact not just on those with disease.  It’s also a physical, emotional and financial burden on caregivers – a job that usually falls on family members.  

In this Wealth Insights Report, we surveyed 1,000 current and former caregivers of family members to gain insights into the impact of cognitive decline on their loved ones – and to better understand the financial burden associated with caregiving.

Learn more

Create your retirement paycheck

A personalized retirement income plan can give you confidence and clarity by identifying your assets and available sources of income - along with their tax implications - to help create a secure retirement paycheck. In this Wealth Insights guide we’ll help you create your personalized retirement paycheck.

Download the RBC Retirement Paycheck Wealth Insights guide

Protecting you and your loved ones

As seniors age, they may become more vulnerable to financial abuse. Age-related mental decline and dementia, as well as becoming more isolated, can cause seniors to make costly financial mistakes. We can provide tips and guidance helping to safeguard you, your family and your assets from financial fraud and abuse.

Checklist against fraud and financial exploitation >

How to protect yourself in the event of a data breach

Data breaches are worrisome and frustrating, not knowing if — or when — your information may be used by thieves. Taking these steps can help you regain a sense of control and may help safeguard your personal and financial information. Read more.

Gain financial flexibility

Be prepared for many of your financing needs by opening an RBC Credit Access Line. With no cost to set up, no ongoing fees, competitive interest rates and favorable terms, it may be a practical tool to help accomplish your immediate and long-term goals. Contact us today to explore this potentially untapped source of opportunity. 

Are you due for an insurance review?

When is the last time you have had your life insurance policy reviewed? There have been significant shifts in the insurance industry to accommodate important changes like the increasing life expectancy of our population, the reduced use of tobacco products, and significant advancements in medicine.

RBC Wealth Management has resources that provide a no cost, no obligation review of life insurance policies. Together with the firm’s internal professionals, we will review your policy to help confirm it is still adequate for your needs and overall financial goals. Contact us if you are interested in a complimentary insurance policy review.