What We Do - Kara Day Financial Planner Vancouver, BC

My Services

Financial planning is about more than investments; it’s about helping you build the life you want. By taking a holistic view of your finances, I help you understand how all the pieces fit together, identify opportunities and potential challenges, and create a personalized roadmap to achieve your goals. As your life evolves, your plan evolves too, with ongoing guidance, regular reviews, and support whenever questions arise, so you can move forward with confidence and clarity.

Retirement Planning

Retirement isn’t simply about stopping work at a certain age, it’s about creating the financial independence to live life on your terms and enjoy the lifestyle you’ve worked hard to build. Whether you’re just starting to think about retirement or preparing to make the transition, I’ll help you understand what your future could look like and create a plan to get you there.

We’ll answer the questions that matter most: When can you retire? How much income will you need? Will your pensions, investments, and savings be enough? Through a personalized retirement strategy that integrates income planning, tax efficiency, estate planning, and wealth preservation, you’ll gain the clarity and confidence to enjoy retirement and focus on the things that matter most to you.

Risk Management

Risk management is about protecting the financial future you’re working hard to build. While insurance provides valuable protection against unexpected events such as illness, disability, or premature death, it can also serve as a powerful planning tool.

When properly structured, insurance can support tax-efficient wealth accumulation, estate planning, and business succession strategies, both personally and within a corporation. By integrating risk management into your overall financial plan, we can help protect your family, your business, and your long-term financial goals.

Personal Insurance Solutions

A well-designed insurance strategy can help protect your family and financial plan from life’s unexpected events.

  • Life insurance 
  • Critical illness insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Extended Health & Dental

Corporate Insurance Solutions

For business owners, insurance can play an important role in protecting business continuity, supporting succession planning, retaining key employees, and creating tax-efficient planning opportunities.

  • Buy-Sell agreement life insurance and disability insurance
  • Key-person life insurance and disability insurance
  • Corporate shared critical illness insurance
  • Group Health Benefit Plans

Investment Planning

Investment planning begins with understanding what matters most to you. Whether you’re looking to grow your money, create retirement income, or preserve wealth for future generations, I’ll help you align your investments with your goals and overall financial plan.

Together, we’ll create a portfolio that reflects your objectives, income needs, time horizon, and tolerance for risk, giving you a disciplined strategy designed to support your long-term financial success.

Tax Planning

Tax planning isn’t just about reducing taxes today it’s about creating a strategy that helps you keep more of your money over time. I’ll help identify opportunities to improve the tax efficiency of your investments, savings, retirement income, and estate plans while ensuring each piece of your financial plan works together.

By minimizing unnecessary taxes and maximizing after-tax cash flow, we can help create more flexibility and opportunities to achieve your financial goals.

Estate Planning

Estate planning is about making things easier for the people you care about most. While no one likes to think about incapacity or passing away, having a clear plan in place ensures your wishes are respected and your loved ones are supported during difficult times.

We’ll look at how your assets are structured, how they can be passed on efficiently, and whether your plan reflects your goals and intentions. I’ll also help ensure your key documents are in place and aligned, so everything is clearly organized and easier for your family when it matters most.