
The School of Hard Knocks
10/01/18 • 20 min
How do you get serious about retirement savings in your 30s and 40s while juggling the costs of housing and raising a family?
WE TALK TO:
- Dan Bortolotti, an associate portfolio manager and financial planner at PWL Capital, as well as the author of index investing blog Canadian Couch Potato
SUGGESTED READING:
- Our most irrational financial habit? Cheaping out on retirement saving is a good read for those who need some motivation to save for retirement.
- Check out The Globe's Real Life Ratio calculator to see if your mortgage is keeping you from fulfilling other important financial obligations:Is your mortgage leaving you house poor?
How do you get serious about retirement savings in your 30s and 40s while juggling the costs of housing and raising a family?
WE TALK TO:
- Dan Bortolotti, an associate portfolio manager and financial planner at PWL Capital, as well as the author of index investing blog Canadian Couch Potato
SUGGESTED READING:
- Our most irrational financial habit? Cheaping out on retirement saving is a good read for those who need some motivation to save for retirement.
- Check out The Globe's Real Life Ratio calculator to see if your mortgage is keeping you from fulfilling other important financial obligations:Is your mortgage leaving you house poor?
Previous Episode

Walking the Plank into Retirement
In this last episode, Rob talks about how to get maximum traction as you head into the final stretch as a saver toward retirement.
WE TALK TO:
- Rona Birenbaum, founder of financial planning firm Caring for Clients and co-founder of the online financial planning platform Viviplan
SUGGESTED READING:
- Given that a lot of traditional measures of retirement readiness are close to useless, here's The new way to tell if you’ve saved enough for retirement
- Earlier this year, Rob explained Why it’s even harder to save for retirement for women
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