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Testing choppy global investment waters with floating-rate funds

The current attraction to floating-rate funds, and their major advantage, is their low sensitivity to interest rate changes

On pipelines, a forgotten coast and foreign workers

Welcome to January – the time of year when folks like me offer vague recaps of the year before and predictions and analysis for the year ahead.
How I did it: Emir Aboulhosn

How I did it: Emir Aboulhosn

Exorbitant roaming fees seed cross-border mobile phone service business
Vancouver attracting multi-family building dollars; Broadway project to ramp up office construction boom

Vancouver attracting multi-family building dollars; Broadway project to ramp up office construction boom

Apartment sales even
Life Lessons: Andrew Tong

Life Lessons: Andrew Tong

The senior vice-president of investments at Concert Properties knows that in business, your word is your bond
Tabulating some of 2013’s top tech buzzwords

Tabulating some of 2013’s top tech buzzwords

SoLoMo has become a popular term recognizing the importance of using social media, local search and mobile devices together for a company’s customer reach
Indian PM’s legacy tarnished by Congress alliance involvement

Indian PM’s legacy tarnished by Congress alliance involvement

Most reports emphasize that Manmohan Singh only became prime minister because Sonia Gandhi wanted a compliant person to hold the post until her son, Rahul, was ready to take over the leadership of the Congress Party

Time to start using more than GDP to measure economic progress

My forecast for 2014 is that this will be the year we recognize the fallacies of a growing GDP and start aiming at other goals

Nursing more interprovincial business barriers in Canada

Now we’re here in a business newspaper, so know this: last spring, still in Ontario, Linda explored nursing work in B.C. and found that just the professional entrance cost would be $500

More lessons in estate planning from the world’s greatest investor

I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Marvin Blum. But if I ever do, I’d like to shake his hand. Mr. Blum is a tax and estate lawyer from Fort Worth, Texas. On May 5, at the Berkshire Hathaway annual general meeting, Mr. Blum asked Warren Buffett a question about estate planning.