In this 119th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Alex Lazarow, Venture Capitalist and Investment Director at Cathay Innovation and Author of the book Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs--from Delhi to Detroit--Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley. Alex Lazarow talks about how entrepreneurs around the world approach various problems differently in order to achieve success.
Read MoreIn recent years, podcasting has grown from its humble hobbyist origins to become a big, global business. It’s estimated that there are currently over 1 million active podcasts, featuring 30 million podcast episodes available in over 100 languages. Stats tell us that more than one in five Americans currently listen to podcasts weekly, and the numbers are only going in one direction: up.
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In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Cato Pastoll, CEO at Lending Loop, an alternative lender to small businesses. Cato Pastoll talks about personal and business credit ratings as well as his work at Lending Loop.
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In this 118th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Matt Alston, COO & Co-Founder at Surex, an online digital insurance broker that caters to home, auto, and various forms of casualty, seeking to digitize the entire consumer experience. Matt Alston explains the origin of Surex, the solutions that it provides to its users, increasing automation to compete long-term, and providing intelligent distribution.
Read MoreI have asked the question countless times when meeting with representatives from various product and service providers.
“When am I going to be able to do this digitally?”
The typical response to this question? “Don’t hold your breath.” Usually accompanied by some sort of either laughter or awkwardness.
My response to this nonsense and heel-dragging has always been the same. “What year, exactly, do you think it is?” After all, DocuSign was founded in 2003.
Needless to say, in the wake if COVID 19, companies’ apathy to digitization is no longer funny. In fact, it never was.
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In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, talks with Guy Anderson, Full-Licensed Investment and Financial Planner with Aligned Capital about Canada’s response plan to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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In this 117th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Dan Doney, CEO of Securrency, a blockchain-enabled tokenization platform that bakes compliance into the actual token. This enables the token to represent the actual asset and simultaneously has rules set around who can participate, what the issuance policies are, and what government regulations come into play.
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In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Trevor Parry, President of TRP Strategy Group and Tax and Estate Expert. Trevor Parry discusses the ins and outs of post-mortem planning to prepare for what happens to the investments in your holding company after you pass away.
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In this 116th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Giles Sutherland, Managing Director for Growth Markets at Carta. Carta is a provider of underlining payment infrastructure for various players in the market, including many well-known fintechs.
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In the 4th episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host of the podcast Fintech Impact, welcomes Greg Markell of Ridge Canada, a cyber security insurance firm. They discuss the origins of cyber insurance, how to protect yourself and your business from breaches, and more.
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In this 113th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews J. Gaston Siri, Chief Executive Officer at SideDrawer and Jamie R. Wolkove, Vice President Sales & Marketing at SideDrawer. SideDrawer is an app and platform based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that allows you to store all the stuff in your life in one place, not just as pdf files, but with intelligence to drive action and support.
Read MoreI have asked the question countless times when meeting with representatives from various product and service providers.
“When am I going to be able to do this digitally?”
The typical response to this question? “Don’t hold your breath.” Usually accompanied by some sort of either laughter or awkwardness.
My response to this nonsense and heel-dragging has always been the same. “What year, exactly, do you think it is?” After all, DocuSign was founded in 2003.
Needless to say, in the wake if COVID 19, companies’ apathy to digitization is no longer funny. In fact, it never was.
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In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Zak Goldman, Managing Partner of Sterling Park Financial Group in Toronto, Canada. Sterling Park is one of the more better-known high-end insurance operations in Canada. Zak and Jason discuss why business owners need to consider insurance and the key benefits of it.
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In this 114th episode of Fintech Impact, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Neil Sheehan and Awaad Amir who both work in the roles of Research & Advisory at Celent. Celent is a consultant to large financial and Fortune 500 institutions that deals with how they can better adapt to technological challenges that they are facing. Awaad Amir and Neil Sheehan discuss the uses and developments of voice activation.
Read MoreThe one blessing of the COVID-19 outbreak is that it didn’t happen 25 years ago. Back in the pre-internet days working from home would have been a non-starter for most advisors. Vital systems were typically only available at the office and literally everything was on paper.
Fast forward to today and countless financial advisors are finding themselves in a work from home/self-quarantine situation with varying degrees of readiness.
Given my reputation as a technophile within the industry, I have had several advisors reach out to me asking how I am coping, and how they can better enable remote work for both them and their co-workers. While my firm picked up with no effort, many of my peers that I have been speaking with find themselves with no choice but to go into the office if they wish to keep servicing their clients. Unfortunately, there are limits to what can be done quickly and now that we find ourselves in this situation.
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In this episode of Financial Planning for Canadian Business Owners, Jason Pereira, award-winning financial planner, university lecturer, writer, and host interviews Peter Merrick, Financial Expert that has been in the industry a very long time and is the author of the book The King of Main Street. His book discusses business owners at different stages of life and the value of mentorship between them. Peter Merrick talks about life beyond working on and at your own business.
Read MoreToday on The Wisdom of Wealth, we're going to talk about a goal shared by all Canadians: retirement. At some point, we all retire, hopefully by choice, and when we're ready for it. But whether it's at a time when we choose, when we can't work anymore or unfortunate enough to lose our jobs, we all stop working, and we all eventually retire, and whether it's at age 50 or age 75 it can be nerve wracking to think about not having any more employment income coming in while you have all these expenses of life still going out. So, today, we're going to talk about how you're going to pay for it.
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