What is a RRIF?
A registered retirement income fund (RRIF) is a great way to use your RRSP savings to generate retirement income while continuing to have taxes deferred on your investment growth. It’s 1 of the 3 choices you have when you’re required to move your money out of your RRSP by December 31 of the year in which you turn 71.
In many ways, a RRIF works like an RRSP in reverse: Instead of putting money in, you take an income out. You do have to make a minimum withdrawal every year. What’s more, a RRIF keeps you in control of how your money is invested, letting you choose from:
Often you can keep your current investments and transfer them to your new RRIF.