#48 — Rob Carrick (Returns): Retirement, the Value of Financial Advice and the Canadian Economy

About this episode

Rob Carrick discusses retirement, financial advice, and the Canadian economy in a wide-ranging conversation.

Our guest this episode is Rob Carrick — longtime personal finance columnist at The Globe and Mail and one of Canada’s most respected voices on money. Rob returns as our first-ever repeat guest after being a fan favourite back in episode #3! For 27 years, Rob helped Canadians make sense of investing, housing, debt and retirement through his widely read column at The Globe. He semi-retired in the spring of 2025 and now writes a Substack newsletter, does public speaking and contributes biweekly columns to The Globe. In this episode, Dave and Rob cover a wide range of timely topics — from Rob’s transition into semi-retirement and how people can successfully navigate retirement themselves, to the growing role of advice-only financial planners and why the quality of financial advice in Canada has improved dramatically. They also dive into broader economic issues affecting Canadians today, including inflation, mortgage renewals, household debt levels, the true cost of home ownership and whether Canadians should be counting on their homes to fund retirement. It’s a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation with one of Canada’s most experienced personal finance journalists — packed with…

People in this episode

Host: Dave

Guest: Rob Carrick

Topics covered

• retirement
• financial advice
• Canadian economy
• household debt
• inflation
• home ownership

Keywords

• personal finance
• investing
• debt
• housing
• financial planners
• economic issues
• money

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Globe and Mail, Substack

Places: Canada

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