I'm at a conference in the Times Center on 41st street at 8th Avenue in NYC. It's called The 99% Conference. (The title is a riff on the famous Thomas Edison quote, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.")

So your son or daughter just got accepted to university and you may now have the challenges of paying for at least four years of their education. If you'd opened an RESP with $1,000 at the end of 1990 and purchased a single stock, there are a few companies that ...

I’m not convinced the price of crude oil will stay above $135 (U.S.) a barrel forever. Sure, there has been a secular rise in demand against scarce supplies but I think the price has also been inflated by some temporal factors, particularly the upswing in the global business cycle (now ...

Investing is not just about making good picks. It’s also about conviction: trusting your judgment and staying the course. Investments rarely go straight up after you buy them. There are plenty of reversals, periods of drift, and contrary opinions that can weaken your resolve.

One the one hand, research clearly demonstrates the business value of community investment programs. For example:

In the November 5, 2007 edition of Briefcase we reported CITIC Securities, a state-owned enterprise based in Hong Kong, and Bear Stearns had reached an agreement to invest US$1 billion dollars in each other. In light of JPMorgan’s agreement to purchase Bear Stearns, Reuters is reporting the deal between CITIC ...