Cemil Otar

Cemil (Jim) Otar arrived in Canada at age 20 and made a wonderful life for himself. He contributed articles to our publications. He was an engineer during the first part of his working life and a financial planner until his retirement in 2018. He spends his winters in Thornhill and his summers in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.

First person: ‘We don’t believe in luck here’

First person: ‘We don’t believe in luck here’

On 2008, active management and red-velvet cake

By Cemil Otar |August 29, 2025

4 min read

First person: The wrong lunch

First person: The wrong lunch

On allegrophobia, prosopagnosia and switching to insurance

By Cemil Otar |August 15, 2025

3 min read

$First person: Dancing between the random and fractal zones$

First person: Dancing between the random and fractal zones

On Gaussian math, Monte Carlo simulators and the Charleston

By Cemil Otar |August 1, 2025

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