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A handy flowchart to answer your most pressing questions about money management.
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You Asked Us What to Do With Your Money. We Made a Flowchart

We crammed the most important stuff Canadians need to know about money into this step-by-step guide.

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The question we get most often from readers is usually some variation of this: How do I even begin managing my money and saving for the future? Every Canadian is on a different financial path, so we thought the best way to approach such a complicated question was to cram every answer we could think of into a flowchart. Of course, money isn't one-size-fits-all, so you should only follow these steps if they make sense for you! But consider this a TLDR-approved guide to all things wealth-building, designed with time-tested financial principles in mind.

A handy flowchart to answer your most pressing questions about money management.

Jenna Benchetrit is the senior business & markets reporter at TLDR, Wealthsimple Media's flagship financial newsletter. She was formerly a senior business writer at CBC News, where she covered economics and consumer issues for a Canadian audience.

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