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Canadian growth far outpaces U.S: StatsCan

It’s not easy living in your older sibling’s shadow for so many years, so it’s welcoming for Canada to find out that its economy is growing far faster than that of the United States. A new Statistics Canada report released on Thursday reveals that between 2000 and 2006, Canada’s real income per capita grew 15.5%, […]

By Bryan Borzykowski |November 22, 2007

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(November 23, 2007) The Bay Street rumour mill has kicked into high gear, as speculation swirled Thursday that DundeeWealth could soon receive an offer of $23.00 a share from Power Corporation. If true, that offer would be almost three dollars higher per share than a takeover offer by CI Financial Income in September. So far, […]

By Staff |November 22, 2007

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(November 21, 2007) A competency profile for financial planners, based on a framework first conceived and developed in Canada, was adopted as an international standard at a recent meeting of the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), which owns the CFP brand outside the U.S. The profile was first developed in Canada over a two-year period […]

By Staff |November 21, 2007

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Most companies miss annual forecasts: KPMG

For most companies, creating a yearly forecast is as integral to its business as selling its product. But what if that forecast is consistently wrong? A new KPMG study reveals that most organizations are missing their forecasts, and it’s causing share prices to tumble. The survey, entitled Forecasting with Confidence, reports that only 22% of […]

By Bryan Borzykowski |November 21, 2007

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