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A decade ago, when an investor was looking for income, the solution was a “ladder” of government bonds. By spreading your money among bonds of various durations (typically one-tenth portions of one- to 10-year bonds), you could minimize interest rate risk. Each year, when 10% of the portfolio matured, you’d simply buy new 10-year bonds and continue on.

Jason Kenney’s crusade to bring “transformational change” to Canada’s immigration system is beginning to look more like the virtual elimination of the system as we know it.

The logo for their North Vancouver sports agency is a red maple leaf in a stylized aboriginal dream catcher. But the mother/daughter duo of Connie and Annalise deBoer also want to be dream launchers.

When you start working on the action plans for your strategic objectives for the year, one of the most important steps is to understand the order of priority of your objectives.

The more threatening facts are, the less we want to believe them. This is a human trait that even pre-dates the travails of Galileo Galieli, the 17th century “Father of Modern Science.”

Seaspan Shipyards president Brian Carter has a lot of heavy lifting ahead of him as he prepares the North Vancouver company for an $8 billion federal government shipbuilding contract

In today’s economy, public stock markets might be suffering, but it’s a seller’s market for private company transactions.

First, the good news: Hawaiian lawmakers in the state house and senate have deferred consideration of two bills that would have distinguished between resident and non-resident property owners renting apartments in the state. Non-resident owners would have been required to employ third-party management, at a cost of 25% to 45% under existing options.

With record low levels of engagement, well over 50% of people saying they’re unhappy at work and an increasingly disenfranchised population, there is a problem in the way we’re running organizations.

Conventional wisdom says you can’t compare apples to oranges. Why not? People do it all the time. If you like apples and oranges equally, you may prefer one over the other out of freshness, price, a giddy whim, whatever.