Today I'm thrilled to welcome Jason Pereira, award winning financial planner to the show to re-explore pension plans for professionals. The focus is on the IPP, the individual pension plan.

Discussion Points:
- Individual Pension Plan (IPP) overview (2:40)
- Jason's background (5:25)
- key definitions - defined benefit (DB) & defined contribution (DC) pensions (6:10)
- how is the DB of an IPP calculated? (7:18)
- When to start an IPP? Thoughts on waiting longer & reducing fees (11:20)
- Who is the ideal candidate for an IPP? (14:08)
- Is there an income threshold below which an IPP makes no sense? (16:25)
- Is there a ceiling to the DB? (18:05)
- Jason's thoughts on the RCA (21:02)
- IPP vs PPP (26:00)
- Does is make sense to place conservative assets inside the DB component? (30:33)
- Is the contribution amount similar across different pension types? (32:28)
- Navigating the pension landscape (32:50)
- IPP vs RRSP & Spousal RRSP (34:30)
- IPP vs investing in a corporation with new cap gains rules (35:15))
- Common mistakes professionals & business owners are making (37:45)
- Improvements upcoming to financial planning in Canada (42:26))
- The most valuable lesson Jason has learned (50:00)

Yatin:
beyondmdpodcast@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yatin-chadha-29074b109/

Jason:
https://jasonpereira.ca/
https://jasonpereira.ca/financial-planning-for-canadian-business-owners-podcast-jason-pereira
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pereirajm/