86% of Canadians are without a defined benefit pension plan and must provide for their own retirement.

TheAlternative.ca was created to gather the best financial strategies used by professional investors and large pension plans and provide courses that share those ideas with individuals.

Why “TheAlternative.ca”?

TheAlternative.ca explores alternatives to generic investment thinking and advice, looks for alternatives that go beyond following the average path to retirement, searches for alternatives to conventional practices that can hold us all back.

TheAlternative.ca is the place to find different ideas for growing and protecting your net worth, practical ways to allocate your investments, understand when you are over-insured or overpaying for the right insurance, or discover financial strategies to become more self-reliant when dealing with capital. TheAlternative.ca won’t profess to be all things to all people and will openly share when commonly followed choices are best along with providing links to sources for the most current practices today. But where traditional thinking is no longer relevant or timely, the Alternative will provide clarity and new answers.

What is TheAlternative.ca?

TheAlternative.ca is an educational service operated as a non-profit. Sponsorship revenue and any course enrolment fees will go to developing more educational content and promoting the information to a wider audience.

TheAlternative.ca is an educational service operated as a non-profit. Sponsorship revenue and any course enrolment fees will go to developing more educational content and promoting the information to a wider audience.

TheAlternative.ca provides some course material free of charge and other courses will be offered on a subscription basis. The different topics covered by free content as well as subscriber-only educational programs will expand over time to address different categories of financial-related wisdom. TheAlternative.ca also benefits from subscriber requests, questions, and feedback for additional areas of interest.

Expert interviews, practiced strategies, and “street-smarts” solutions will be provided. While we all hope that the world around us improves and becomes more equitable, we’ve all had experiences proving why we need to be vigilant over our own affairs. For those of us who seek to continually improve our financial results and impact the communities around us, this is a place to gather ideas as well as contribute back when so inspired.

TheAlternative.ca is a place where tried and true methods for handling money can be explored as well as fresh and new strategies when changes occur in the markets or economy.

We welcome you to explore TheAlternative.ca.