BSc
MSc
PhD — McMaster University
CFP — Certified Financial Planner
CIM — Chartered Investment Manager
Portfolio Manager · IIROC
“Wealth is not a single number — it is the sum of every decision you make across a lifetime.”

Most advisory relationships are built around one piece of your financial life. A portfolio manager who doesn’t know your tax situation. An accountant who doesn’t understand your estate. An insurance broker disconnected from your retirement income strategy.

Reid Financial Strategies was built on a different premise: that genuine advice requires seeing the whole picture — and holding all of it at once.

Colin Reid brings an unusually deep set of credentials — a PhD in mathematics alongside the CFP and CIM designations and an IIROC Portfolio Manager licence — to every client engagement. The result is planning that is not only comprehensive, but cohesive.

A Complete Suite of Integrated Services

Every service we offer is designed to work in concert with the others. Because your financial life doesn’t exist in silos — and neither does our advice.

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BSc · MSc · CFP · CIM · CFA · PhD

Colin Reid

Founder · Portfolio Manager · Senior Wealth Advisor

Colin Reid is one of Canada’s most credentialed wealth advisors — holding the CFP and CIM designations alongside graduate degrees at the MSc and PhD level. This rare combination of academic depth and professional breadth means clients receive advice that is both intellectually rigorous and practically grounded.

Colin’s practice is built around a simple but powerful belief: that comprehensive financial planning only works when every discipline is genuinely integrated. Investment allocations should reflect retirement income timing. Tax decisions should inform estate strategy. Insurance coverage should account for corporate structure. Colin holds all of these threads simultaneously — because no single one can be pulled without affecting the rest.

Licensed as a Portfolio Manager with IIROC dealer Aligned Capital Partners since 2014 and life-licensed since 2010, Colin provides clients with a level of integrated investment, tax, and planning expertise that is uncommon — and increasingly hard to find — in a boutique practice.

BScBachelor of Science
MScMemorial University
CFPCertified Financial Planner
CIMChartered Investment Manager
CFAChartered Financial Analyst
PhDMathematics, McMaster

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