In the Information Age the only thing we can count on is change itself. After more than a decade in which millions of people’s working lives have been disrupted by corporate outsourcing, downsizing and reengineering, individuals have come to realize that Canadian companies can no longer offer them job security.
In the New Economy “we have [...]

Throughout 2004, investment advisors were frequently vilified in the financial press. They were accused of such things as: not disclosing their total profits and commissions, putting clients in higher-cost house-brand mutual funds, in the case of brokers - churning accounts to make commissions, and generally of being in a conflict of interest position and failing [...]

If the purpose of “ethical investing” is to avoid “supporting” unethical and otherwise wicked corporations, then, I am sorry to say, it is (with rare exceptions) a complete and utter waste of time.
In a nutshell, this is because it is customers and not investors who ultimately decide the fate of any corporation. Any company with [...]

One of the biggest misconceptions about retirement is the concept that retirement means not working. In fact, with all the pressures on Canadians to self fund retirement, one of the easiest solutions might be to incorporate work into our retirement.
Current trends are showing that work is becoming an increasing component of retirement.
85% of Americans, [...]

Only a few years after the stock market bubble it has come to my attention that we have a whole new set of economists. This nascent breed of self-appointed authorities is made up of streetcar riders, media soothsayers, expendable employees from large corporations and pretty well every other person who still has a decent credit [...]