What Are Billionaire Investors Doing Differently
The number of people on the list of global billionaires only seems to be growing, with a reported 1,826 making the cut this year. Despite...
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Michael Marmoreo
- Aug 27, 2015
- 2 min
IPPs Are Alive And Well!
We are pleased to announce that Finance Canada has amended the tax measure on past service contributions to an Individual Pension Plan...
Nick Barisheff
- Mar 22, 2015
- 5 min
The Federal Reserve’s Centennial Birthday – The 100 Years’ War Against Gold
The following is an executive summary of a presentation given by Nick Barisheff, of Bullion Management Group Inc. (BMG), at the Toronto...
Jane Mancini
- Mar 22, 2015
- 4 min
Re-engineering Risk
Risk and volatility are the new normal for today’s investment managers. In a fast-paced and highly changeable environment, a strategic...
Robert Stammers
- Mar 22, 2015
- 5 min
Will Self-directed Investing Simplify Your Life?
It is becoming increasingly easy to manage one’s money. For almost any level of wealth, there are low-cost services or products that can...
Winthrop H. Smith, Jr.
- Mar 22, 2015
- 3 min
Bring Main Street Back To Wall Street
In 1940, my father convinced his friend Charlie Merrill to return to the business of stock broking. For the prior decade, Merrill had...
Kara Lilly
- Mar 22, 2015
- 5 min
A World Without OPEC
When my siblings and I were young, my parents often took us on long road trips throughout Canada. Five kids would pile into a beat-up...
David Wolf
- Mar 22, 2015
- 5 min
Fidelity Viewpoints: Canada’s Oil Slick
Positioning For Further U.S.-Canada Divergence Oil prices have collapsed. As I write, the benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil...
Mariana Araujo
- Feb 25, 2015
- 4 min
Common Biases Of Goalkeepers And Portfolio Managers
Millions of fans around the world have tuned into to this year’s World Cup in Brazil. And whether you love it or hate it, the penalty...
Mark O’Farrell
- Feb 24, 2015
- 4 min
Help Now Available For Executors’ Upcoming Challenges
A culmination of recent surveys, statistics, and legislative changes indicate a perfect storm for challenges facing executors (known by...
Kelly Reynolds
- Feb 24, 2015
- 2 min
Setting Up Protection From HFT Predation
While the majority of high frequency trader (HFT) activity in the market is deemed as positive by many participants (such as market...
Allan Mosher
- Feb 24, 2015
- 4 min
Supplemental Pensions And Key Employee Retention
Most business owners will agree that the most important company asset is key employees. They will also likely agree that key employees...
John Bowman
- Feb 24, 2015
- 3 min
An Industry That’s Lost Its Way
‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ is one of the most talked about films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards. Both the movie and its...
PWC
- Feb 24, 2015
- 3 min
Take Steps To Save Now
Canadians are in danger of paying more taxes than necessary if they put off reviewing their potential tax savings strategies for the 2014...
Sadiq S. Adatia
- Feb 24, 2015
- 3 min
Look Outside Canada For Equity Opportunities
Now that the world’s economic engines appear to be in gear, with only the occasional sputter, equity markets are in a good position to...
Peter Volny
- Feb 24, 2015
- 3 min
Recession? What Recession In Collector Car Market?
Arizona’s world famous Auction Week in January set new records that remove any doubt as to the health of the collector car market. Actual...
Peter Volny
- Feb 24, 2015
- 2 min
Monkey See. Monkey Do.
Photos by: Linda Goddard Traveling is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get! No apologies for the slight...
Erik Weisman
- Jun 23, 2014
- 4 min
Wage Against The Machine
Something has the rate of wage growth in a vice grip and labour slack alone can’t shoulder the blame. When you consider the anemic wage...
PWC
- Aug 29, 2013
- 2 min
4 ‘Aha’ Truths For A Changing Corporate Landscape
Technology is moving much faster than many of our institutions – while it continues to change the way people interact with businesses,...
Tom Deans
- Aug 28, 2013
- 6 min
Don’t ‘Pass-On’Your Family Business
Never in the history of civilization has so much wealth been created inside businesses – equity now sitting as cash, inventory,...
Felix Narhi
New Ball, New Game: The Role Of Liquid Alternatives In Balanced Portfolios
In the cult classic film ‘The Big Lebowski,’ Jeff Bridges plays The Dude whose life is thrown into disarray when his beloved rug is...
Anthony Faiella
Ontario Farmland – The Undiscovered Alternative
After four decades of benefiting from the decline in interest rates and the tailwind it provided the standard 60/40 portfolio, investors...
Peter Volny & Linda Goddard
The Road Less Traveled: Portugal and Galicia
We visited Lisbon and Porto many years ago, but had never seen the rest of Portugal so our mission over five weeks was to see as much as...
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