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Investing: Are you getting too old to invest on your own?

At nearly 104 years old, Irving Kahn is credited with being the oldest active investor on Wall Street. His firm, Kahn Bros. Group, returned an average of 10.9% per year between 1994 and 2008, according to The Wall Street Journal, outperforming the S&P 5 ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago,  Harvard University,  New York University,  New York Times Company

2010 Investing Guide

Given the hammering most portfolios suffered last year, it's tempting to play it safe in 2010. And that's exactly what you should do with at least 80% of your holdings. But studies show you may be more disciplined with your core investments if you ...

From BRYAN BORZYKOWSKI, JOE CASTALDO AND CALVIN LEUNG, Canadian Business Online,  13 Nov 2009

CRTC veto shuts Globalive out of wireless competition

Anthony Lacavera was one step from turning the company he founded, Globalive Communications, into the country's fourth national wireless carrier by launching services this year as Wind Mobile. But the 35-year-old is now shut out. The Canadian ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BCE, Inc.,  Tony Clement,  UK Conservative Party,  Shaw Communications Inc.

The Ode: Jolt Cola

was born in 1985, when it hit shelves promising all the sugar and twice the caffeine of regular soft drinks. Creators Joseph and C. J. Rapp, a father-and-son duo out of Rochester, N.Y., designed the hyperactive beverage to slay “wimpy” colas. Jolt ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  2 Nov 2009

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Mining: Power play on the Prairies

Dawn Zhou doesn’t look the part of a brash, macho Canadian mining executive. Instead, she’s demure and soft-spoken. But don’t be fooled: she’s still someone you don’t want to cross. Zhou founded Athabasca Potash (API) in 2006. As CEO, she quickly ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  27 Oct 2009

Canada in 2020 (Energy): The land of plenty

Harvey Klingensmith felt his company was sitting on something big last year. Unfortunately, his chairman thought he was insane. Klingensmith operates a small, privately held oil and gas outfit in Calgary called Stone Mountain Resources that had ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: EnCana Corporation

Rural dating services

Joe Dickenson sometimes spends up to 12 hours a day working on his farm in Oil Springs, Ont., a community of about 700, an hour northeast of Windsor. The 28-year-old lives alone and rises at dawn each day to tend to his herd of beef cattle, which can ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  19 Oct 2009

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Mind-reading ads

As long as there have been marketing and marketers, consumer data have been prized commodities. The Internet, which allows companies to collect information that they never could before, has raised the stakes and expectations higher still. The next ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.

Media: The great strawberry shortcake custody battle

Inside the Toronto headquarters of the Cookie Jar Group hangs a large picture of the cartoon character Strawberry Shortcake, smiling and struggling to carry a massive strawberry while her friends frolic between mountains of cake. “She’s a great ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: American Greetings

Clean 15 contest: Nano goes mega

Nanomaterials sound like science fiction: extremely tiny substances, less than 1/10,000th the width of a human hair, that take on entirely new characteristics due to their small size. They’re very real, however, at Vive Nano Inc., which is using such ...

From JOE CASTALDO, Canadian Business Online,  22 Sep 2009

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