Why didn't they run

 February 06, 2015 |Dian Chaaban
An average of 114.4 million people watched the Super Bowl 49 on Sunday night, making it the most-viewed program in American history. I also learned that I’m not the only one who cares to tune in at the end because the highest volume of folks tuning in...
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Emerging Opportunities

 January 30, 2015 |Dian Chaaban
Earlier this week, I had plans with a girlfriend of mine, who is also in the investment business, to meet and catch up over a nice glass of scotch. A few hours before meeting, she called me asking if we could postpone the scotch and attend a seminar/dinner...
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Motion of the ocean

 January 23, 2015 |Dian Chaaban
Last week I was cruising with my fellow top-performing colleagues and executives from across the globe on the RBC Performance Convention Cruise – and while it was an honour to be recognized in this way and to have had the chance to meet so many incredible...
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Happy New Year!

 January 02, 2015 |Dian Chaaban
Let's face it - New Year's resolutions are lame. Someone once told me that out of the ~50% of people who take on a resolution, only 8% achieve their goal. So, rather than setting overzealous life-changing resolutions like the top 10 commonly broken resolutions...
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Falling, hard

 December 12, 2014 |Dian Chaaban
3 things fell this week – oil prices, the Canadian dollar and yours truly. I woke up yesterday morning, much like all of you, surprised to see how much snow had fallen. It seemed fluffy and harmless so I wore my nice boots (instead of my ugly serious...
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Axe Throwing

 December 05, 2014 |Dian Chaaban
I celebrated my birthday in an original way this past week by asking my friends to join me at BATL, the uniquely casual urban venue, for an axe throwing tournament. I know you’re probably thinking that throwing axes sounds rather risky and like a disaster...
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Oil and Water

 November 28, 2014 |Dian Chaaban
When I was in grade 3, we went on a field trip to the Science Centre and I distinctly remember being mesmerized by this glass oval contraption which was filled with a mixture of oil and pink-dyed water that you could spin around to illustrate the foundation...
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Brand vs Quality

 November 21, 2014 |Dian Chaaban
“…but they’ve been around for so long and at one point, everyone had an IBM computer – plus the stock has made me some good money over the years, so it must be a keeper…right?” Is how my new client responded when I told him that we should sell IBM from...
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Brrrr

 November 14, 2014 |Dian Chaaban
I met a potential client this morning for breakfast and she gave me some dreadful news – apparently, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, predictions for Canada’s upcoming winter season is defined as the “T-Rex of winters” – meaning that it’s going...
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Timing

 October 31, 2014 |Dian Chaaban
Oh, hello. Did you miss me? So, what did I miss while I was gone? Only the worst market week in the past 5 years. What timing. After more than 1,100 days, the long awaited market correction arrived on Wednesday, Oct 15th. Even though we knew it was coming...
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