MNP Debt Blog

If you want to leave a legacy when you pass away, defeat debt before you retire. Otherwise all you leave may be paperwork and memories.

No one wants to disrupt their much-deserved rest and relaxation by panicking about how they’re going to juggle an unplanned hit to their budget. So how do you keep your vacation budget on track?

As a consumer finance professional, I field a lot of questions about money. But few do I experience more often than the age old — “Should I invest in my retirement or pay off my debt?”

Logically, we know we can’t buy everlasting happiness for 12 low payments of $59.99 – or less than the cost of one coffee a day.

Millennials have a complicated relationship with debt. As the first true ‘digital natives’ this generation grew up in the most media-saturated and consumerist culture in recorded history.

This discrepancy between income in / income out has led to a significant increase in insolvency filings throughout the province. Sound familiar?

We’ve all been there: kicking tires, innocently window shopping, looking for nothing in particular – when something spectacular catches our eye.

Another new year is upon us, and with that comes a fresh batch of resolutions.

High school graduation comes with many opportunities – one of which is the availability of credit. But should you take it?

With the ever-rising cost of post-secondary education comes increased student loan debt.