In the weeks leading up to my recent family vacation, I flew in and out of a number of major Canadian cities. As a fairly frequent business traveller, I am used to seeing airports in various states of repair and generally have not paid much attention to these works in progress. On one of my […]
In the process of updating some of our hedge fund research recently, a colleague was kind enough to pass along a copy of an April 1966 article in Fortune magazine called “The Jones Nobody Keeps Up With.” I had read about this article in other hedge fund readings, but—until recently I admit—I had not actually […]
Reflecting a bit on my upbringing, I had the great fortune of dining most evenings with my family. My mother had a tremendous gift for balancing the culinary excesses for which my brother and I naturally wished for with devoted portion control. During my early years at home, my mother normally did the cooking, and […]
I lost count over the latter half of 2007 how many times I was asked to comment on the subprime meltdown and the ABCP credit crunch. I remained unusually tight-lipped for a consultant, as I was convinced that any insights I could offer at 9 am would be wrong by noon. It turned out that […]
© Copyright 2006 Rogers Publishing Ltd. The following article first appeared in the December 2005 edition of BENEFITS CANADA magazine. Tomorrow’s forecast: Caution Investment strategies for the coming year will be tempered by plan sponsors’ appetite and tolerance for risk and their time horizons. By Peter Arnold Plan sponsors have had a lot on […]