Living the retirement dream

 March 11, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
Last weekend, Mark and I got on a plane to visit the in-laws in Florida and to play “retired” with them for a few days. For the past 3 years, Tracy and David have put their snowbird wings on and flown to Sebring, Florida to their lively retirement community...
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Super Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...

 March 04, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
While Tuesday this week was known as Super Tuesday in the US, the entire week was in fact quite super with respect to global markets. What is Super Tuesday? According to Investopedia, “Super Tuesday refers to the date in the U.S. presidential primary...
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Procrastination by association

 February 26, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
The RRSP contribution deadline for this year is Monday, Feb 29th – not the typical March 1st you may be expecting because this year, as you may have already noticed, is a leap year. Every year, it’s the same story; a chaotic and panicked ritual of making...
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What's going on and what do we do now?

 February 19, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
This was the million dollar question we answered for our clients last night at the Four Seasons. Special guest speaker, Mark Allen (our VP of Canadian Equities) educated the packed room as he covered key details and trends regarding Canada’s economy,...
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Ongoing Resolutions

 January 29, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
After an intense start to the year, January has ended the month on a positive note – the S&P 500 rose 1.7% and the Dow Industrials rose 2.3% for the week while the TSX rallied 3.5%, led by Energy and Materials. While the green week was nice to see, investors...
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Green Goodness

 January 22, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
After a rough ride in the markets this past week, my face was sporting a smile and a bright green glow from the reflection of my Thomson (screen shot of my market close below with all sectors in the green). While it was an intense week that saw panic...
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Beating the odds

 January 15, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
Earlier this week thousands of Canadians went Powerball bananas finding creative ways to buy their lucky ticket for Wednesday’s estimated US $1.5 billion jackpot (ahem, that’s ~2.18 billion Canadian) – the largest jackpot in US lottery history. Despite...
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Bold Predictions

 January 08, 2016 |Dian Chaaban
This week, I attended the 39th Annual Outlook 2016 forecast luncheon – an annual event hosted by the Canadian Club and National Post which features an expert panel discussion on the economy, the markets and political issues that will affect Canadians...
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Looking Ahead

 December 11, 2015 |Dian Chaaban
Although it may not feel like it (yea, I’m talking about the awesome temperature outside), we’re 14 days away from Christmas and only 20 days away from 2016. 2015 has been an eventful year, to say the least, and as we close the books on a volatile and...
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Houston, we have lift off (... well almost)

 December 04, 2015 |Dian Chaaban
You’ve heard me say this plenty all year – the US economy (and associated job growth) is strong and well - well enough that the US Federal Reserve is very likely to begin raising the overnight benchmark rate to above zero - for the first time in over...
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