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"We're just waiting for your generation to get out of the way so we can get onto what we know has to be done," said my early 30-something relative in a heated rant last week.

Income-generating assets – dividend stocks, commercial real estate or even corporate bonds – hold a special place in a high-net-worth investor's portfolio when the stock market is volatile and range-bound, like it appears to be today.

The fever pitch rhetoric over Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal is drowning out the real questions we should be asking about Canada’s energy future, starting with, “What is our plan for national energy security that will enable Canadian workers and families to gain the biggest long-term benefit from Alberta’s oilsands and other energy sources?”

David “Mullenator” Mullen leads Fulcrum Capital Partners, a new Vancouver-headquartered private equity firm recently spun out of HSBC Bank Canada

Apartment sales rise

CEO Murray Driediger is using his family farming background to help BCfresh reap revenue that has grown to approximately $45 million per year

Burnaby’s year?

In 2011, Vancouver hosted the Vanier Cup, Grey Cup and the RBC Canadian Open, and, most famously, the Stanley Cup.

Imagine that you’ve descended into Earth’s orbit from some distant planet where Spock-like reason was normal. Imagine, too, that you’re then forced to ponder those of us who are slightly less-than-rational on occasion. I’d guess, looking back on 2011, this alien among us would have a few questions about human behaviour.

2012 already? But are we through with 2011 yet? Last January, my theme for 2011 was “Get Apple” with tech companies increasingly feeling the need to challenge the fruit-logoed company’s smartphones, tablets and slim and light laptops.