Susan Yao-Arkilander

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Susan Yao-Arkilander

Senior Investment Advisor

CFP®

CIM®

MBA

Sound investment advice built to help weather all market conditions

Phone

Office

(905) 707-1586

Mobile

(416) 917-1878

Office Location

220 Commerce Valley Drive West Suite 300 Markham, ON L3T 0A8. map

As you achieve your life's goals from years of hard work, you may realize that your financial situation becoming more complex. When you arrive at this stage of life and need professional assistance with wealth and investment management, we can provide our professional advice and services.

From managing your investment portfolios to planning to optimize your wealth from a business sale, intergenerational wealth transfer, multi-jurisdictional families and assets transfer, or maximizing the tax and asset efficiency by allocating investment assets to family trusts, holding companies, registered and non-registered accounts as well as using tax-sheltered insurance policies, to creating a strategy for charitable gift-giving to your own family foundations well in advance of the actual gifting, you have access to our team of tax, legal and insurance experts through me.

Prior to being invited to join TD Wealth Private Investment Advice, Susan was an investment and wealth advisor with RBC Dominion Securites where she won the 2008 Best Practice Advisor by DS Advisory Board and where she provided a comprehensive range of investment and wealth management services customized to her select clients.  Her 20 years of experience in various roles as a branch manager/ assistant vice president in a Citigroup affiliate in Asia, a private banker and a senior planner with another Canadian bank, gave her a distinct advantage in developing solid client relationship and providing world-class solutions to more complex needs of her high net worth clients.

Susan has obtained a prestigious designation of CFP or Certified Financial Planner and has completed her LLQP certification on insurance. She has a graduate degree in MBA in addition to her Bachelor of Science in Architecture.  She can fluently speak and write English, Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Fukienese/ Taiwanese, and Tagalog.

To ensure her clients make sound and informed decisions, Susan is passionate about making sure her clients are educated about the various choices of investment and wealth strategies available to them. She takes extra time and care with her clients. The more her clients understand market dynamics and investing basics, the less likely of them to make unsound short term decisions based on emotions. Despite enduring the "great recession of 2008-2009", she is proud of her sound advice and disciplined investment management approach that her clients benefitted.  Most of her clients' portfolios came out in much better financial shape than before the market crash of 2008-2009.

Phone

Toll Free

1(800) 322-1777

Fax

(905) 707-2049

Branch Phone

(905) 707-2021

Branch Fax

(905) 707-2049

Certificates

CFP®

CIM®

MBA

Languages

English

Mandarin

Chinese

Fookien

Taiwanese

Filipino

Your Goals, Our Priorities

We will work together to help you manage, grow, and protect your wealth. Our tailored services are designed to help meet your unique goals and priorities - no matter how complex they are.

We'll help you identify your priorities and create a plan to address your specific needs. We can help with:

  • Protecting your assets
  • Maximizing your charitable giving
  • Finding tax strategies and solutions
  • Arranging your estate and trust planning

Our Services

Your goals are our priority so when you work with us, you have access to experienced professionals across all our products and services. Whether you need answers about wealth strategies, retirement planning or transfer of wealth, we're here to help.

What We Do

What to expect when working with us

Initial Discovery

Our in-depth discovery process focuses on understanding your priorities and goals in order to better support them.

Seamless Onboarding

We will help you transfer funds and structure your investment portfolio through step-by-step onboarding.

Proactive Reviews

Get curated insights, timely updates, and regular reviews of progress towards your goals and adjust as your needs evolve.

Polly – Moving forward with the right financial plan

Empowering Polly to achieve financial success

When Polly moved to Canada, she was determined to build a great life for her family. Years of hard work and resilience paved the way for success, but when faced with the unthinkable, Polly was left to start again, leaving her with feelings of uncertainty. Find out how with the help of her TD Wealth advisor and a personalized financial plan Polly was able to take charge of her family’s financial future.

Nick & Justina – Business owners teaming up with TD Wealth

Putting finances into perspective

As small business owners, Nick and Justina make a powerhouse team, supporting each other through ups and downs. As parents, they worry about how potential challenges with the business could impact their family’s future. Nick and Justina teamed up with their TD Wealth advisor to build a personalized financial plan. With a plan in place, they finally saw that achieving their family’s goals while maintaining the business was possible. Find out how the right financial advice helped give them a brighter view of life.

Tailored Solutions

Our solutions can help people meet their unique needs and make them feel more confident in their financial future.

Your unique goals

You've worked hard to get where you are today. Now's the time to maintain, grow, and protect your net worth. Get tailored advice, solutions, and strategies that can help achieve your goals.

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