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Feeling Angry or Fearful? Then Don’t Call Your Stock Broker

The many hidden ways your emotions affect your investment decisions, and how emotional intelligence can make you a savvier investor

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Research Brief: Senior Lenders Are Great, Until They’re Not

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Auditor’s Dilemma: “Client Satisfaction” Turns a Discerning Mind to Mush

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Research Brief: How Long-Term Investors Shape Management Decisions

Closer monitoring and better quality information give some institutional investors out-sized influence on corporate performance

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Shopping for a Pretty Picture or An Accurate One?

It's assumed that public companies shopping around for a favourable audit opinion have something to hide. Instead, they may be acting as proper corporate stewards

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Feeling Angry or Fearful? Then Don’t Call Your Stock Broker

The many hidden ways your emotions affect your investment decisions, and how emotional intelligence can make you a savvier investor

The Gaping Hole in Canada's Labour Force

Bank of Canada's Poloz: Boosting numbers of youth, women, Indigenous people, Canadians with disabilities, and recent immigrants "a prize worth pursuing"

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Tight Communities, Loose Lending

High social capital means a lower cost of loan capital

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Taking a Bite Out of Bitcoin

In applying a dose of reality to the cryptocurrency craze, the futures market lives up to its promise

New Tax Proposals: What Entrepreneurs & Small Business Owners Need to Know

The federal government may be undermining the climate for new venture investment

60 minutesMonday, January 22, 2018 - 1:00pm

Session Leader:

Patrick Legresley, Jason Skilnick

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How Pretenders Give Mergers a Bad Name

M&As have a reputation for draining the value of acquiring firms. It doesn’t have to be that way: a long-term focus and deep pockets flip the script

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Forecast 2018: Beware a Zombie NAFTA

Uncertainty on the trade front may mean capital investments are put on hold

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Client Confusion: Who Does the Auditor Work For?

Some auditing firms are in denial about the corrosive effect of commercial pressures on their work

intellectual property

Research Brief: Innovation as a Bankruptcy Lifeline

For firms desperate to restructure, intellectual property is in an asset class of its own

Investing for social good

Building the Ultimate Do-Good Portfolio

How one Canadian foundation is going all in on impact investing

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