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Survival Guide: Investing
Dave Richardson has always been an equities guy, but even he knows that convincing people to invest in the stock market today is a tough sell. The vice-president of RBC Global Asset Management is convinced that troubled markets offer opportunities. But, he acknowledges, “it’s understandable that people would be nervous about holding equities at all.”
Since Jan. 3, the S&P/TSX composite...
Europe on the cheap
Paul Ehrlichman can’t wait to see Greece finally default. “The country’s a fraud,” he says. “There is no hope.” With a one-year government bond yielding more than 100%, it’s as if the country has already defaulted, explains the head of global equity for Delaware-based Global Currents Investment Management. The sooner it goes under, the sooner Europe can start healing. But until...
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