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Facebook: Should you invest in social media?
It’s no secret how much Mark Zuckerberg will make from his company’s initial public offering. As the listing date draws closer—it could be as early as April—the Internet is littered with colourful charts and graphs detailing what the Facebook founder will be worth. It’s expected the total will hit somewhere around US$24 billion. About a thousand others will become instant millionaires....
Investing in sin stocks
Gerry Sullivan doesn’t have many vices. He doesn’t smoke, he rarely gambles and he only occasionally enjoys a tipple. But the portfolio manager at Milwaukee-based USA Mutuals doesn’t moralize about other people’s habits. He makes money from them, in good times and bad. Sullivan runs USA Mutuals’ Vice Fund, a portfolio made up of cigarette, alcohol, gaming and defence stocks. Or, as...
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