Ed Rempel

Early life

Ed Rempel is a future forward-facing person and hasn’t openly discussed much of his early life online.

Career

Ed Rempel is a certified financial planner certified by the Financial Planners Standards Council and has an accountant certification from the Professional Accountants of Ontario. He also completed the Certified Hedge Fund Specialist program with the highest mark in Canada. For more than two decades, Rempel has helped Canadians with creating proper, professional financial plans. Currently, he runs a website, YouTube Channel and podcast under the name Unconventional Wisdom, where he writes about financial guidance-related strategies and provides fee-for-service advice.

The Unconventional Wisdom website is also where Rempel describes financial strategies he has become known for, including the Smith Manoeuvre, Lifecycle Investing, Rempel Maximum and 8-Year GIS strategies.

Prior to running Unconventional Wisdom, Rempel enjoyed serving as an accountant for various institutions. He served as Controller at Simmons Canada for twelve years and also worked as an accountant for Winnipeg Building and Decorating, Settlers Saving and Mortgage Corporation, as well as the Bank of Canada. As a prolific writer, Rempel is very passionate about sharing his insights with his audience. Disillusioned by the conventional wisdom typically spouted by financial planners and the media, Rempel prefers financial strategies that ensure results.

He often provides guest posts for leading financial publications such as Million Dollar Journey, Investment Executive, MoneySaver Magazine, Build Wealth Canada podcast, Retire Happy, and Yahoo Finance. He has also written for The Globe and Mail, the National Post, The Tax Letter, Findependence HUB, and more.

Ed Rempel also provides interviews and records videos offering financial planning advice, priding himself on authoring and delivering engaging, accessible content that can be relevant even to those with little or no interest in learning about finance.

Net Worth

Ed Rempel’s net worth isn’t publicly known.