Primary Job Title Fee-For-Service Financial Planner & Tax Accountant Primary Organization 
Ed Rempel & Associates
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada Regions Great Lakes Gender Male
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Ed Rempel, CPA, CMA, CFP is a certified financial planner and a tax accountant in Toronto who has built a reputation for helping Canadians understand the kinds of unconventional wisdom that will help them prosper financially. Ed has offered his fee-based financial planning services for the past 24 years, and during that time has enjoyed assisting
Canadians with creating real, professional financial plans that earn results. Ed Rempel has helped thousands of Canadians become financially secure. Their Financial Plan becomes the GPS to the life they want to live.
Ed Rempel is regarded as an industry expert on several investment strategies. He is especially skilled with the Smith Manoeuvre, a debt conversion strategy that converts a mortgage over time into a tax- deductible investment credit line, and the 8-Year GIS Strategy, which can help seniors qualify for larger government pensions with effective planning and investing. He also has significant experience with related strategies, like Lifecycle Investing, Cash Dam and Rempel Maximum.
Ed has written extensively on the Smith Manoeuvre, and a detailed description of the strategy can be found on his Unconventional Wisdom website. On the topic of unconventional wisdom, Rempel is particularly drawn to the David Swenson quote, “To have unconventional success, you can't be guided by conventional wisdom.”
Ed draws on his training and certification as a tax accountant to help inform the financial strategies he creates for clients. He emphasizes the dangers of following conventional wisdom – like the relativity between the economy and stock market performance – as means of guiding investment and financial decisions. This is a theme he returns to consistently both in his frequent blogging and while serving as an expert source for articles in newspapers, magazines and financial blogs.
Ed Rempel is also a frequent speaker for webinars, seminars and conferences that are designed to help Canadians gain a better control over their finances. Ed had the privilege of being a speaker at the 2017 Canadian Financial Summit, an all-digital event that featured such other top names in Canada’s financial community as author Jonathan Chevreau. He has also been a speaker at the MoneyShow Toronto.
As an author and guest, Ed has written for or been featured on the Globe & Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Canadian MoneySaver, Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, Morningstar, Seeking Alpha, Costco Connection, Canadian Real Estate Magazine, Money, MoneySense, Findependence HUB, The TaxLetter, Investment Executive, Advisor.ca , Advisors’ Edge, Benefit & Pensions Monitor, Saskatchewan Pension Plan, many financial blogs, and the Build Wealth Canada podcast. Before Ed started his financial planning firm, he served as a controller and accountant with several different businesses in Canada. Ed has been awarded “Best Canadian Personal Finance Blog” by Expertido, the #1 financial blog in Canada and is the founding member of FPAC - Financial Planning Association of Canada. His blog has been awarded a Top 50 Personal Finance Blog by Feedspot. He also completed the Certified Hedge Fund Specialist program with the highest mark in Canada.
