Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today

Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today
Author: Rob Carrick
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2009-12-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 030737226X

From the author of How to Pay Less and Keep More for Yourself, the essential Canadian investment guide. This is the kind of investment advice that Canadians crave, at a time when they need it most: super-savvy, easy to use, and written in a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners style that's often outrageously outspoken. Rob Carrick is a highly respected Globe and Mail columnist and expert on personal finance and consumer banking, Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today is the only all-Canadian practical guide to protecting yourself and prospering in a challenging economy. Systematically arranged with clear and logical headings and handy lists of information, this is a book that can be read cover to cover with enjoyment and to great personal benefit, and used also as a reference for answers to specific concerns. The time is right for Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today.

The Money Book for Everyone Else

The Money Book for Everyone Else
Author: Kelley Keehn
Publisher: Insomniac Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1554830397

Canadians are saddled with over 1.4 trillion dollars in consumer debt and less than 75% have three months' savings in an emergency account. If they want to be financially free, something has to change. It starts with this book! The Money Book for Everyone Else is a guide that will teach you: - How only paying what your credit card company requests might leave you burdened with a balance for decades.- How to protect your financial identity and how failing to do so could result in a life-long nightmare.- How to spot and avoid investment scams.- Why certain credit cards could leave you hungry and thirsty on your next flight.- Navigating the world of Canadian tax shelters, along with the basics of investing and debt.- How to repair and maintain your credit score.- Simple tips for being debt-free sooner.- Questions, criteria, and biases you need to be aware of when choosing your financial team.Written in a simple, straightforward style and loaded with lots of real-world examples and stories for Canadians, this book has everything an individual needs to know to become financially savvy. This is not an advanced guide; specific niche topics such as retirement planning, estate planning, and taxation will only be covered as an overview. There are few interactions that will last throughout your entire life, but your relationship with money is one of them.

Kickstart Your Corporation

Kickstart Your Corporation
Author: Andrew Feindel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119709121

A detailed look at financial planning strategies surrounding professional corporations for doctors, dentists, lawyers, business owners and other Canadian professionals. If you're a doctor, a dentist, a lawyer, or a business owner—virtually any type of professional in Canada—you strongly need to consider how incorporating fits into your financial plan. A good financial planner should acknowledge they have absolutely no control of the markets. However, taxes are completely controllable, and having a corporation is a powerful tool that allows professionals to control their tax bill. Using a mix of personal observations, real-life examples, and strategy evaluations, this book guides the professional along their path to using their corporation in the most efficient way. Kickstart Your Corporation: The Incorporated Professional's Financial Planning Coach is your practical guide to controlling your tax bill and taking advantage of all that a Professional Corporation has to offer. Drawing upon decades of hands-on experience in wealth management, author Andrew Feindel provides clear and accurate advice on making the incorporation decision, setting up and investing inside your corporation, optimizing your salary and dividend compensation mix, valuing permanent insurance on your corporate balance sheet, using prudent leverage, weighing the pros and cons of active or passive investment management, using alternative strategies like a Capital Gains Strip, Individual Pension Plans and Retirement Compensation Arrangements, and much more. This must-have book: Provides Canadian professionals with an accurate and straightforward investment and financial planning guide to incorporation Covers the basics of incorporating for the professional and business owner, including a review of the process and the costs to incorporate, and the likely benefits Analyzes the best financial strategy for various situations Offers real-world advice on structuring compensation, risk management, borrowing to invest, and the role of trusts in professionals’ financial plans Written by a senior vice president at an independent leading-edge wealth management firm Kickstart Your Corporation: The Incorporated Professional's Financial Planning Coach is essential reading for any professional who has incorporated and is looking to maximize benefits, and those wanting to incorporate for the first time with expert guidance.

How Not to Move Back in With Your Parents

How Not to Move Back in With Your Parents
Author: Rob Carrick
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0385671938

In this era of the Boomerang Generation, here at last is a full and frank guide to avoiding the need to move back in with your parents. Rob Carrick of The Globe and Mail is one of Canada's most trusted and widely read financial experts. His latest book is the first by anyone to target financial advice specifically at young adults graduating from university or college and moving into the workforce, into the housing market and into family life. Financial beginners, in other words. Carrick offers what can only be described as a wealth of information, on the full life cycle of financial challenges and opportunities young people face, including saving for a post-secondary education and paying off student debts, establishing a credit rating, basic banking and budgeting, car and home buying, marriage and raising children of their own, and insurance. The book is mindful throughout that parents have a big role to play in all this. It addresses young readers throughout but regularly asks them to see things from their parents' perspective. In that way, Rob Carrick is able to offer advice to both generations. He even recognizes that in these difficult times, moving back in with the folks is sometimes a short-term necessity. So there is a section devoted to such important questions as: Should your parents be charging you rent? For that and many thousands of dollars' worth of other reasons, this is a book that every parent needs to buy for each of their kids, plus one for themselves.

No Red Lights

No Red Lights
Author: Alan J. Patricof
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2022-05-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1637582943

As featured in The Wall Street Journal! One of Business Insider’s “5 Best Leadership Books I Read This Year” for 2022! A look back at entrepreneurial growth and venture capital in the last half century by one of the leading figures in the industry. Extensive media and online coverage of the business arena, news of start-ups, mergers, and deals are familiar headlines these days. But that wasn’t always the case. The early years of venture capital were a far cry from today’s very public dealings. Alan Patricof, one of the pioneers of the venture arena, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the past fifty years of the industry. From buying stock in Apple when its market valuation was only $60 million to founding New York Magazine to investing in AOL, Audible, and more recently, Axios, his discerning approach to finding companies is almost peerless. All of Patricof’s investments—from Xerox to Venmo—share certain qualities. Each company had sound product with wide appeal, the economics were solid, and the management team was talented and committed to seeing their visions come to fruition.

Managed by the Markets

Managed by the Markets
Author: Gerald F. Davis
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0191607584

The current economic crisis reveals just how central finance has become to American life. Problems with obscure securities created on Wall Street radiated outward to threaten the retirement security of pensioners in Florida and Arizona, the homes and college savings of families in Detroit and Southern California, and ultimately the global economy itself. The American government took on vast new debt to bail out the financial system, while the government-owned investment funds of Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Malaysia, and China bought up much of what was left of Wall Street. How did we get into this mess, and what does it all mean? Managed by the Markets explains how finance replaced manufacturing at the center of the American economy and how its influence has seeped into daily life. From corporations operated to create shareholder value, to banks that became portals to financial markets, to governments seeking to regulate or profit from footloose capital, to households with savings, pensions, and mortgages that rise and fall with the market, life in post-industrial America is tied to finance to an unprecedented degree. Managed by the Markets provides a guide to how we got here and unpacks the consequences of linking the well-being of society too closely to financial markets.

Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0316535621

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Backstage Leadership

Backstage Leadership
Author: Charles Galunic
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030361713

Most of us would recognize a star leader by their charisma, emotional intelligence and public communication prowess. What is truly impressive but often overlooked is the silent work of leadership that garners real results. Exercising influence in a complex and global organization – whilst also shaping and executing strategies across borders in a disruptive age – is the true mark of success as a leader. Backstage Leadership takes a comprehensive look at the background processes that leaders must master in order to shape the culture, direction and capability of a successful company. With an emphasis on strategy, the author provides an integrated toolkit for developing your knowledge and skills as a 'backstage leader.' You will learn how to: Mobilize people towards new strategic directions Scan your business environment for threats and disruptive forces Diagnose and help to shape the culture of your organization Develop talent and capabilities towards a specific goal. Focusing on the key and consistent underlying processes of leadership, this book is essential reading for managers who wish to bring focus and coherence to their leadership role and integrate themselves within the engine of the organization.

Sheela-na-gigs

Sheela-na-gigs
Author: Barbara Freitag
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005-08-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134282494

A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.

How to Pay Less and Save More For Yourself

How to Pay Less and Save More For Yourself
Author: Rob Carrick
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307374874

From Canada’s leading expert on consumer banking, this easy-to-read, indispensable book will help you keep your hard-earned money working for you. Canadians are savvy consumers of everything – except financial products. We comparison shop for new cars and new clothes, but when it comes to our money, most of us passively hand it over to banks and other institutions. The result? Our earnings languish in bank accounts that pay out zero interest while raining down fees, or in mutual funds that make more money for the people running them than for investors. This book is the remedy: written especially for Canadians, it is the definitive guide to getting the best possible deal on everything from savings accounts to mortgages to RRSPs. Rob Carrick puts the key information in the reader’s hands through comparison charts, rankings and easy-to-follow tables, as well as good old-fashioned advice. He explains how to construct a banking profile, where to find the best bargains in financial services, how online banking and investing is changing everything, and much more. This book shows how to get the best while paying the least, so you can use your money for the things you really want and need.