Posts in FPCBO
2024 Compensation Planning with Luc Lapalme | E111

In today’s episode of the FPCBO Jason talks to Luc Lapalme, Senior Principal at Mercer. It is a very large consulting company that consults on various aspects of business. Today he will be discussing about their compensation planning survey, and this is a survey about employers and what they are looking to accomplish or what they are looking to do when it comes to salaries for staff in the coming year.

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Family Coaching with Alex Kirby | E110

On today’s episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason is going to talk to Alex Kirby, Co-Founder and CEO of Total Family Management. It is a company focused on family coaching and helping families through the dynamics and personalities that are in the family to create better cohesion and better family Wellness and long-term satisfaction for everybody. They explore the challenges of entitlement within family businesses and how purpose can be used to unify the family's values and goals. It also touches on the initial steps of onboarding with Total Family Management.

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AI Guides with John Stroud | E109

In this episode of the Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners Podcast, host Jason Pereira interviews John Stroud, the CEO of AI Guides, an AI strategy and consulting company. The episode focuses on artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, and how it can benefit businesses of all sizes, including single-person operations. The conversation explores various options available in the AI space to improve business operations.

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Employee Ownership Trusts with Jon Shell | E108

Jason talks to Jon Shell, the managing director and partner at Social Capital Partners. Jon is an advocate for employee ownership trusts in Canada. The episode discusses what employee ownership trusts are, the benefits they provide to employees, and the challenges faced in implementing them in Canada. The conversation highlights the changes in tax laws related to employee ownership trusts and Canada's first attempt at implementing them.

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Benefits Benchmarking with Matt Lister | E105

On today's episode, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Matt Lister, CEO of Cloud Advisors. It is a company in the group benefits space, and one of the unique things they have done is they have built a benchmarking system that helps inform business owners as to basically how their plans stack up against competitors in the same space and helps advise around best practices and design. Service is free for employers. Paid by advisors and providers.

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Behaviour Finance with Brian Portnoy | E104

On today's episode, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Brian Portnoy, Founder of Shaping Wealth and author of three books, including the must-read advisor book - The Geometry of Wealth. Brian is a well-known expert in the field of behavioral finance, and he will talk about what behavioral finance is and how it affects our decision-making and our relationships with the people advising us.

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Find Your Freedom with Jamie Hopkins | E102

On today's episode, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Jamie Hopkins, Managing Partner of Wealth Solutions at Carson Group, a national wealth management firm that offers coaching and partnership to financial advisors. Jamie is a well-known personality in the US Financial advisory space and recently published a book called Find Your Freedom Financial Planning and Life Purpose.

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Mastermind Groups with Grant Hicks | E099

On today's episode, Jason Pereira is going to talk to Grant Hicks, a known financial advisor coach who has been out there basically helping advisors build better practices. He is going to share more powerful and more effective means or strategies that he has seen advisors put in place for business owners that have really helped elevate their business practices.

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Buying A Business with David Barnett | E096

On today's episode, Jason Pereira is going to talk to David Barnett, he is a private transaction advisor. Today he is going to specifically talk about acquisitions, but not from the seller's point of view, but from the buyer's point of view. David works with people who are looking at doing the purchase or sale of small businesses. He is a former business broker, but he does not act as a business broker today. He simply works in an advisory or consulting role.

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Old Age Security with Aaron Hector | E095

On today's episode Jason Pereira is going to talk to Aaron Hector, a private wealth advisor for CWB wealth. He is here to talk about old age security. Basically, what it is, how it works, how you can plan around it and what are the planning opportunities for this exist. Aaron also talks about how dividend junkies who love being different impact only security, different than other forms of income.

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Canada Pension Plan with Doug Runchey | E094

On today's episode Jason Pereira is going to talk to Doug Runchey, owner and operator of DR Pensions Consulting. Doug is probably the foremost authority when it comes to understanding Canada Pension Plan and what it is in the implications and decisions that go around that simple enough topic. But there is actually a fair amount of complexity to the program and a lot of myths to dispel.

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