For Professionals: Lawyers, Accountants, Engineers, Consultants and Veterinarians
Lawyers, accountants, engineers, architects, independent consultants and veterinarians share one problem: income that stops when the billing stops, and no employer pension behind it. These twelve articles start with each profession's own pressure point, then cover the draw, the partnership, the corporation and what replaces the billable hour.
Written for your profession
Law firms, accounting practices, design firms, independent consultants, veterinary practices and new partners.
The Small Firm, the Draw, and Money That Is Not the Firm's
A partner draws rather than earns a salary, and holds an account of money that is not the firm's. What both facts do to liquidity in a small practice.
Read the articleThe Accountant Asked to Approve This, and What to Check UPDATED
A briefing for the professional asked to approve or reject a corporate-owned participating contract: the mechanism, the concessions, and the questions.
Read the articleThe Design Practice and the Obligation That Outlives the Work UPDATED
A design practice delivers a project and keeps an obligation for years afterwards. How claims-made cover, run-off and a staged fee cycle actually interact.
Read the articleThe Contractor With One Client and a Contract That Ends UPDATED
One client at a time, a contract with an end date, and a day rate that has to cover everything an employer used to. The arithmetic, without rhetoric.
Read the articleVeterinarians and What the Practice Is Worth to Anybody Else
A veterinary practice is worth what somebody else will pay for it, and the owner is usually the last person to find out what that number is.
Read the articleBuying Into a Partnership at the Point of Highest Debt
A partnership buy-in is one purchase, financed, settled in a few months, at the point of highest debt in a working life. What the buyer is actually signing.
Read the articleYour corporation and your income
How you pay yourself, what retained earnings cost while they wait, and who should own a contract.
Salary, Dividend, and What Each One Builds
Salary or dividend while a contract is funded: deductible payroll, gross up and credit, earned income, registered room, pension entitlement, your CPA's call.
Read the articleRetained Earnings and the Passive Income Rule
How section 125(5.1) grinds a corporation's business limit as adjusted aggregate investment income rises, why it lands a year later, and who measures it.
Read the articleThe Policyholder Decision for an Incorporated Owner
Corporate or personal policyholder: premium dollars, balance sheet visibility, capital dividend account credit, benefit to a shareholder, exemption testing.
Read the articleYour retirement income
Start with what your lifestyle could cost, then where the income could come from when the billing stops.
Retirement calculator: what the lifestyle you want could cost from 65 to 95
Estimate what your chosen retirement lifestyle could cost across the Go-Go, Slow-Go and No-Go years, adjusted for inflation, in Canadian dollars.
Read the articleBusiness Owners Retirement Plan
How retirement planning differs when the wealth is in the business: the vehicles available, why the exit is the funding event, and what happens if it fails.
Read the articleInsured Retirement Plan
What an insured retirement plan is, why the loan comes from a lender rather than the insurer, what the structure depends on, and how it fails in practice.
Read the articleHow to read this collection
Start with the article closest to where you are today. Each one stands on its own, and together they follow the questions professionals usually ask, in the order they usually ask them. If retirement is the question, begin with the retirement calculator: it estimates what the lifestyle you live now could cost each year from 65 to 95, before any product is mentioned.
The articles explain one tool, participating whole life insurance, and the way some professionals use its cash value as a source of capital through policy loans from the insurer. They also say when that tool does not fit: a household still carrying expensive debt, cash flow that cannot fund a policy steadily, or a horizon too short for the cash value to build.
Before you act on any of it
Tax and corporate questions belong with your accountant and your lawyer, and every policy is subject to the insurer's underwriting. We are paid by commissions from the insurers whose policies we arrange, and we say so before anything is signed. We are not a bank. Dividends are not guaranteed, and policy loans carry interest set by the insurer.
If you would like to talk about your own situation, the 30-minute discovery meeting page explains what a first conversation is and what it is not.
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A first conversation establishes whether this fits. No illustration is prepared and nothing is arranged.
Often the answer is no, and you will hear it during the call rather than in a proposal afterwards.
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Common questions
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Last reviewed 2026-10-01.