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Reference Centre
A structured home for Canadian planning data, thresholds, assumptions, rules, and source-based reference pages used to support OpenBook Planning calculators and educational articles.
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Foundational planning assumptions
Source anchors for future calculator defaults
These reference areas collect source anchors for assumptions used across retirement, tax, pension, and borrowing calculators. New values are added after source review and schema work.
FP Canada / IFP projection assumptions
Annual Canadian planning assumptions for inflation, borrowing cost, asset-class returns, and long-term projection defaults. These can support default values while still allowing user overrides.
Bank of Canada policy rates
Policy-rate and interest-rate reference data for borrowing-cost assumptions, debt planning, mortgage context, and economic update pages. This should remain factual and source-linked.
Reference categories
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Registered plans
RRSP, TFSA, FHSA, RESP, RRIF, and related plan limits or rules.
Government benefits
OAS, CPP/QPP, GIS, and related thresholds or benefit assumptions.
Taxation
Tax brackets, credits, dividend assumptions, and capital-gain assumptions.
Retirement rules
Withdrawal factors, conversion ages, pension timing, and decumulation rules.
Housing and education programs
Future reference area for housing, student, and education savings program values.
Glossary
Plain-language explanations of financial planning terms used across calculators, references, and articles.
Featured references
Common planning values
This list is ordered by planning area rather than alphabetically: registered plans, taxation, planning assumptions, retirement and government benefits, housing and education, then glossary terms.