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120 days – 1.70%
– ratesupermarket.ca
This GIC rate is offered by Oaken Financial and was updated on 2013-11-28. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
Dividend stock offers play on our aging population
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If I had to pick one industry that is going to benefit from long-term demographic trends, it would be retirement homes
60 days – 1.55%
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This GIC rate is offered by Oaken Financial and was updated on 2013-11-28. Click on the link above to get more details or apply online.
A retirement planner, 69, lays out her own exit strategy
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After 18 years with an investment firm offering advice on retirement, financial planner Christine Fahlund is organizing her own retirement.Textron to cut 750 jobs in Cessna and Beechcraft as it combines its recent acquisition
– canadianbusiness.com
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Just over a month after buying Beechcraft for $1.4 billion, Textron announced 750 job cuts at that company and at its Cessna division.
The layoffs will occur over the next 60 days. Both aircraft makers are based in Wichita, Kan., and Textron says about 575 of the affected jobs are based in Kansas.
Management and non-management jobs will be eliminated, the company said.
Textron Inc., based in Providence, R.I., expects about $4.6 billion in annual revenue from the combination of Cessna and Beechcraft.
Beechcraft filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012 because of the sluggish business jet market during the economic downturn. It sold its Hawker business jet assets and emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2013. Cessna laid off workers in 2013, although it didn’t say how many jobs were eliminated. It also offered voluntary retirement for hourly and salaried workers, and said it would cut production that year because of weak demand for light jet products.
Wichita has also endured extensive job cuts after Boeing Co…
The layoffs will occur over the next 60 days. Both aircraft makers are based in Wichita, Kan., and Textron says about 575 of the affected jobs are based in Kansas.
Management and non-management jobs will be eliminated, the company said.
Textron Inc., based in Providence, R.I., expects about $4.6 billion in annual revenue from the combination of Cessna and Beechcraft.
Beechcraft filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012 because of the sluggish business jet market during the economic downturn. It sold its Hawker business jet assets and emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2013. Cessna laid off workers in 2013, although it didn’t say how many jobs were eliminated. It also offered voluntary retirement for hourly and salaried workers, and said it would cut production that year because of weak demand for light jet products.
Wichita has also endured extensive job cuts after Boeing Co…
