Services and solutions
The Stairway team has a reputation for building and maintaining long-term Client relationships. We believe effective financial planning arrives from an engaged partnership with Clients. To stay a step ahead, the Stairway team takes an educated and integrated team approach to develop long-lasting plans. Our services include:
- Financial planning
- Retirement income planning
- Investment strategies
- Life, health and disability insurance strategies
- Group benefit strategies
- Corporate retirement strategies
- Succession planning
- Estate Planning
- Tax strategies
Business owners
Spend more time running your business and less time worrying about your business. A strong strategy can get you there.
Business owner insurance
Whether you’re starting out or looking for ways to grow your business, business owner insurance can help you protect yourself, your partners and employees and your family.
Business Benefits & Savings
The needs of small businesses are as unique as the people running them. That’s why we’ve created a variety of affordable, customizable benefits and savings plans with the features that matter most to businesses.
RRSPs for Business Owners
Your business may produce surplus above what is needed for your business or personal lifestyle. You can either retain in the corporation or remove and invest personally. Maximizing your RRSPs makes sense for most business owners given a sufficient time horizon.
TFSAs for Business Owners
Your corporation may produce surplus above what is needed for your business or personal lifestyle. If you want to save the surplus for future use TFSA’s may be a good solution, depending on your time horizon and current and future tax brackets.
Family centric
Protecting your family and setting them up for success – that's what it’s all about.
RRSP (Registered retirement savings plan)
A type of savings account specially designed to help Canadians save for their retirement.
It comes with tax advantages that let you save and grow your money now, while deducting your RRSP contributions from your current tax bill.
It comes with tax advantages that let you save and grow your money now, while deducting your RRSP contributions from your current tax bill.
TFSA (Tax-free savings account)
A tax-free savings account (TFSA) is a registered investment account that’s designed to help Canadians save money.
Any income earned within a TFSA, including interest, dividends and capital gains is tax-free.
Any income earned within a TFSA, including interest, dividends and capital gains is tax-free.
RESPs (Registered education savings plan)†
A tax-deferred account to help you save for a child’s or grandchild’s post-secondary education. Anyone can open a RESP and contribute money at any time, up to a lifetime total of $50,000 per child. Contributions aren’t tax deductible, but any investment income earned within the plan will be taxed only when it’s withdrawn.
Term life insurance
An affordable life insurance policy that gives you financial protection for a certain period of time. If you die while your policy is still active, then your beneficiaries receive a lump-sum, tax-free payment (called the death benefit). They can use this money any way they please.
Personal and family health insurance
A policy or contract that gives you, the insured person, financial coverage to help pay for health-care needs. Depending on your policy, the insurance company pays for your covered health-care expenses. You pay the insurance company a monthly premium or fee.
Disability Insurance
Disability insurance (DI) is a type of health insurance. It helps protect you financially by replacing a portion of your income. You receive a benefit if you’re ever diagnosed with a covered medical illness, mental health issue, or injury that prevents you from working.
Critical illness insurance
Critical illness insurance (CII) is a type of health insurance. CII coverage can help Canadians or those living in Canada pay the additional costs associated with life-altering illnesses like cancer, stroke, heart attack and dementia.
Travel insurance
Whether you’re headed outside your home province or to the other side of the world, traveling can be stressful.
Travel insurance can help protect you from the difficulties that come from unexpected medical expenses
Travel insurance can help protect you from the difficulties that come from unexpected medical expenses
Mortgage protection insurance
Thinking of buying a new home? Your mortgage lender may offer the option of buying mortgage insurance (also known as creditor insurance). But do you really need it? Or do you need mortgage protection insurance instead?
Dental insurance
Dental insurance, included in a personal health insurance plan from Sun Life, can help you manage dental costs including cleanings, braces, crowns and more.
Permanent Life Insurance
A type of life insurance policy that provides you with lifelong coverage to protect your loved ones. This coverage never expires, no matter your age or if your health changes. Permanent life insurance provides a death benefit, which is a tax-free payment your beneficiaries will get after you die.
Looking at retirement
Everyone’s dream retirement will look a little different. That’s why it’s important to make a custom retirement plan.
RRSP (Registered retirement savings plan)
A type of savings account specially designed to help Canadians save for their retirement.
It comes with tax advantages that let you save and grow your money now, while deducting your RRSP contributions from your current tax bill.
It comes with tax advantages that let you save and grow your money now, while deducting your RRSP contributions from your current tax bill.
TFSA (Tax-free savings account)
A tax-free savings account (TFSA) is a registered investment account that’s designed to help Canadians save money.
Any income earned within a TFSA, including interest, dividends and capital gains is tax-free.
Any income earned within a TFSA, including interest, dividends and capital gains is tax-free.
RRIF (Registered retirement income fund)
An investment account that pays you income during retirement. You can transfer tax-sheltered funds from registered Canadian accounts such as RRSPs, registered pension plans and other RRIFs into a RRIF.
GICs (Guaranteed investment product)**
Designed for people who want to protect their principal and earn a guaranteed rate of return.
Because of their many features, guaranteed interest products are an important component of both registered and non-registered savings plans – as well as retirement income plans.
Because of their many features, guaranteed interest products are an important component of both registered and non-registered savings plans – as well as retirement income plans.
LIF (Life income fund)
A registered account designed to pay you income from your locked-in pension assets. These assets can’t be taken out all at once, since a LIF is meant to provide retirement income throughout your life.
Mutual funds†
A mutual fund is a pool of money and investments (e.g. stocks, bonds and other types of investments) that are managed by a professional fund manager.
Segregated funds
Segregated fund contracts are a popular investment option, available only from life insurance companies. Similar to mutual funds, segregated funds are large pools of money invested in stocks, bonds or other securities. These contracts have higher fees than mutual funds because they also offer guarantees and some of the additional benefits of a life insurance contract.
Annuity products
An annuity protects you from the risk of outliving your money and helps to cover basic expenses in retirement. In exchange for a lump-sum premium, an insurance company – like Sun Life – guarantees to pay you an income for life or as long as the annuity contract specifies. Your income will be secure from both market and interest rate risks – and, if you buy your annuity with non-registered savings, you could also benefit from tax savings.
Personal and family health insurance
A policy or contract that gives you, the insured person, financial coverage to help pay for health-care needs. Depending on your policy, the insurance company pays for your covered health-care expenses. You pay the insurance company a monthly premium or fee.
LIRA (Locked-in retirement account)
A registered account designed to hold and invest pension assets that you and your former employers contributed to. Investments within the LIRA grow tax-deferred – this means you won’t have to pay taxes on investment growth until you withdraw funds.
Long term care insurance
Long term care insurance from Sun Life provides an income-style benefit if you become unable to care for yourself due to aging, a serious accident, severe illness or deteriorated mental abilities.
Permanent Life Insurance
A type of life insurance policy that provides you with lifelong coverage to protect your loved ones. This coverage never expires, no matter your age or if your health changes. Permanent life insurance provides a death benefit, which is a tax-free payment your beneficiaries will get after you die.
†Mutual funds distributed through Sun Life Financial Investment Services (Canada) Inc.
**Sun Life Financial Trust Inc. is the issuer of Sun GIC Max and Guaranteed Investment Certificates. Sun Life Financial Trust Inc. is a member of Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC). An Insurance GIC is an accumulation annuity issued by Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada.
Have questions?
Here to help answer your questions, provide clarity about products and get you started on the road to achieving your goals.
We are contracted with Sun Life Financial Distributors (Canada) Inc., a member of the Sun Life group of companies. Mutual funds distributed by Sun Life Financial Investment Services (Canada) Inc.