Fiscal Fitness: A Guide to Personal Finance for All Stages of Life

Patricia Morley is professor emerita of English and Canadian Studies at
Concordia University and an avid outdoor recreationist. She is also the
author of The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women’s Lives, Kurlek, and
Margaret Laurence: The Long Journey Hom

With a steadily growing percentage of seniors in Canada’s population,
financial planning for retirement is looming larger than ever before.
Fiscal Fitness is less single-mindedly focused on seniors than Sandra
Foster’s Make the Most of What You’ve Got (1999), but it has been
recommended by the Retirement Counsel of Canada. Both books stress the
importance of long-term planning, staying informed, and becoming more
knowledgeable about managing the funds on which you depend.

Paul Tyers is president of the Retirement Counsel of Canada and a
regular writer on personal finance. Pierce Newman is director of
education for the Retirement Counsel and a former lecturer at Humber
College’s Business School. Both authors stress the importance of
long-term planning, practical budgets, and clear investment goals.
Fiscal Fitness covers home ownership (basics and fine print), insurance
needs, retirement planning, estate issues, and Revenue Canada. A
substantial glossary that runs to 13 pages is an unusual and welcome
feature, as is the comprehensive index. Adults of all ages could profit
by the clear information and sound advice found here.