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Tech stocks on fire
It was just last January that a beaming Steve Jobs ambled onto the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts in San Francisco and asked a capacity crowd of Apple fans, tech geeks and celebrities this question: “Is there room for something between a laptop and a smartphone?” The audience sat silent, hanging on the Apple CEO’s every word until he revealed what everyone came...
Beat the fees: Are low-fee banks worth it?
When Paul Gagnon was still a student he opened his first chequing account with CIBC. He has since expanded his banking network — he has a no-fee savings account, line of credit and an RRSP with ING Direct Canada
Not everyone spreads their business around strategically to avoid fees, but many are weighing the pros and cons and costs of the services they get. With ING and PC Financial offering...
Stocks: Small is beautiful
Getting a 400% return on an investment in less than three years is a pretty remarkable feat, even for a seasoned value investor like Irwin Michael. He has the small cap stock Fortress Paper (TSX: FTP) to thank. In 2007, Michael, president of Toronto’s I.A. Michael Investment Counsel and manager of ABC Funds, began loading up on the Vancouver–based specialty paper manufacturer at prices...
Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based writer and editor working mainly for business publications. He writes for the New York Times, Canadian Business magazine, Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Businessweek Custom Publishing, Toronto Star, MoneySense and more. Bryan's the editor of Review magazine and is a senior editor with Connected for Business magazine. He's also a contributing writer with Hello! Canada and was once a weekly music columnist for Metro News. He's been nominated for several National Magazine Awards and he's co-authored