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While there are a host of well-known giants in entertainment that you could invest in, and many of them, of course, own motion picture divisions (such as Sony Pictures), I wanted to focus here on stocks of publicly-traded companies whose business is primarily film. That is already quite the filter and removes many blockbuster companies [...]
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The US dollar has served in the role of world reserve currency since 1944, but there is nothing intrinsic about the US dollar which requires that it – and not some other, new currency – continue to fulfill that function. If anything, the long-term secular decline in the greenback since 2001, coupled with much more [...]
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As you know, by 2011 Canada’s income trusts must move back to a corporate structure for tax purposes. Since the 2006 regulation, some companies have already made the move and more are continuing to do so. Here is a list of Canadian companies still operating as income trusts. There’s still a good year and a [...]
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Dear Graduate Student, have you started your retirement savings plans yet? Do you have a portfolio of growth stocks and ETFs in place yet? Do you have a plan in place to contribute to these investment savings regularly? If so, perfect. Then you should probably be reading up on whether to invest in gold bullion [...]
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With the arrival of the autumn equinox, it is a good time for many to start thinking ahead to budgeting for the holiday gift-giving season. The holidays are about more than gifts, though – social events, unexpected guests dropping by, more travel plans and decorations for your home all add up to put pressure on [...]
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Planning your graduate career, or just looking ahead to being on the home stretch and getting that thesis out of the way? Don’t just count on the funding you might get from your program or teaching/research assignment. Writing a thesis is the perfect situation for which you should have a solid emergency fund in place.
Your [...]
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