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How to stay the course with your retirement plan during market volatility + MORE Apr 8th
Three days of wild market volatility sparked by U.S. tariffs is enough to cause any investor stress, but for those in retirement, the plunge can be extra difficult.
Markets have taken a nosedive after U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping global tariffs last Wednesday (April .... More »
Having a will is essential (and easier than you think) + MORE Jun 18th
Writing a will is one of those things that tends to sit on your to-do list indefinitely, right up there with organizing old paperwork or finally cleaning out the basement. You know it matters and that you’ll get to it eventually, but it never seems to make it to the top of the priority list.
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S&P 500 Has Best Week in 2023 as Bond Yields Slide: Markets Wrap - Yahoo Finance + MORE Nov 3rd
S&P 500 Has Best Week in 2023 as Bond Yields Slide: Markets Wrap Yahoo FinanceS&P 500 notches best week in 2023 as yields tumble BNN BloombergWall Street indexes rally on bets of peak US interest rates, strong earnings Inquirer.netWhy Are Stocks Up Today?&nbs.... More »
What happens when a buyer backs out of a real estate deal? Aug 31st
When it comes to backing out of a real estate deal, the law doesn’t tend to side with the dealbreaker, says Ron Butler, a veteran mortgage broker and one of the founders of Butler Mortgage in Toronto. If you’re the buyer, “You should find a way to complete the sale—beg, borrow, do whatever y.... More »
Dow Jones Futures Fall; Nvidia Wavers Despite Strong Earnings, Guidance - Investor's Business Daily + MORE Feb 26th
Dow Jones Futures Fall; Nvidia Wavers Despite Strong Earnings, Guidance Investor's Business DailyNVIDIA Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2026 NVIDIA NewsroomWhy Nvidia’s Huge Numbers Don’t Settle the Latest AI Fears WSJTech stocks today: .... More »
How Early-Stage Start-Ups Can Overcome the Talent Crunch
– canadianbusiness.com
Record investment deals, a historic tech initial public offering (IPO) rush, newly minted unicorns and the rapid adoption of technology to digitize our lives and enable remote work—it’s been an electrifying few years for Canadian tech companies. But the Covid-19 pandemic has made life much harder for a critical slice of our innovation economy: early-stage start-ups.
Early-stage companies are the beginning of Canada’s entrepreneurial pipeline. They have big ideas, product prototypes and even a few sales. More importantly, they have the potential to be Canada’s next homegrown tech titans. They’re not quite ready to scale up or cash out—they’re still surviving on coffee, maxed-out credit cards and angel or seed investments.
Seed financing is up during the pandemic. But it hasn’t kept pace with the amounts going to later-stage companies—through the first three quarters of 2021, 63 per cent of venture capital dollars were invested in later- and growth-stage companies…
