Are you paying yourself what you are worth?
Business owners need to figure out from Day 1 what their value is and pay themselves that amount in a some combination of salary, equity, dividends and retained earning.
View ArticleTerence Corcoran: Knee-jerk Occupy mentality misses one-percenters' wide...
If Canadians actually seriously look at the income data, they might end up feeling pretty good about income distribution in Canada
View ArticleNew middle-class policies will actually leave the middle class behind
Don Drummond and Andrew Sharpe: Forces leading to stagnation of middle-class earnings will likely persist and could even intensify
View ArticleFive things you should know before you start your work day on May 18
They routinely break our hearts, but loyalty cards remain popular with Canadian consumers. This story and more in your morning cheat sheet to the FP
View ArticleWilliam Watson: The glum forecasts are wrong again as Canadian kids are...
Two-thirds are doing as well as their parents did is an antidote to pervasive pessimism
View ArticleAs income pie shrinks, Ottawa and business community talk past each other
While economies work better when entrepreneurs and others are allowed to satisfy their greed, big gaps between the richest and the rest can cause chronic problems
View ArticleSocial harmony in China may be bad for business
Livelihood issues will be in focus at China's National People’s Congress to be held in Beijing between March 5 and 15
View ArticleDollar Tree most profitable as cheapest of buyout targets
While private-equity firms circle Family Dollar Stores Inc., 99 Cents Only Stores and Big Lots Inc., a leveraged buyout of Dollar Tree Inc. may offer the biggest bang for the buck
View ArticleLawrence Summers on the jobs crisis
Lawrence Summers: Even with the massive 2008-2009 policy effort that successfully prevented financial collapse and depression, the United States is now halfway to a lost economic decade
View ArticleCanadian debt still high but there is some good news to bank
The latest household accounts data released Monday surprised exactly no one showing Canadian debt-to-income ratios at a new high of 147.3% in the first quarter of 2011, but there are a few good things...
View ArticleCanada's rich getting richer
The average Canadian is better off than they were a generation ago, but the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, says the Conference Board of Canada
View ArticleRich-poor gap still widening
The average Canadian is better off than he or she was a generation ago, but the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, a report Wednesday from the Conference Board of Canada says
View ArticleInvesting in dividend stocks pays off
Dividends have contributed an average of roughly 44% of total returns since the 1940s, so nobody is doubting their value. But history shows that this is the time equity investors begin to give...
View ArticleThe burden of the real estate millionaires
In Vancouver, a retired couple we’ll call Roland, 69, and April, 67, are in the curious position of being real estate millionaires but struggling to remain middle class in their way of life
View ArticleMisdirected money?
The feds have noticed employee profit sharing plans are being used to avoid taxes
View ArticleCanada's ETF lag
The first exchange-traded fund (ETF) was launched in Canada 21 years ago, but other countries have since caught onto the idea and Canada’s share of the global ETF market has dwindled to 2.9%. Moreover,...
View ArticleUncovering covered calls
While interest rates are near all-time lows, the demand for income has certainly not abated. Rather, it has increased due to an aging baby boom generation and their lower overall risk profile. So it is...
View ArticleHow the U.S. became mired in income inequality
Analysis: It’s how income was taxed that allowed the ultra-wealthy to keep more of what they earned compared to middle- or lower-class Americans
View ArticleThe ROI of an MBA
When you enroll in a full-time MBA program, you must pay tuition and often give up income while you attend the program. The level of your future income often doubles however, which means you more than...
View ArticleMBAs place their careers on new paths
A math teacher and factory employee both found their MBAs helped them land interesting, high-paying jobs
View ArticleAn uncertain future
Even high-net-worth families sometimes feel they don’t have enough money to last but this couple can rest easy
View ArticleCanada's rich still getting richer: OECD
The wage gap between the top and bottom income earners in Canada is widening, largely due to ineffective tax policies, a new report from the OECD says
View ArticleWhy dividends may not be the answer
Dividends, once considered the boring afterthought of the stock market, are now in vogue. But it pays to pause and listen when everyone on Wall Street starts to whistle the same tune.
View ArticleNo time to invest like lemmings
Let’s flash back to 1981. Interest rates were 19% to 20%, inflation was everywhere, and the world was awash in fear. Pundits predicted 30% rates — 40% — even higher. Canada Savings Bonds — remember...
View ArticleFamily Finance: How not to use a line of credit
Family Finance: This couple's retirement will be devastated if they cannot get mounting debts and perhaps others in the future under control
View ArticleTransocean dividend gone for now
While investors may have expected Transocean Ltd. to cut its dividend, they probably didn't expect it would be eliminated entirely
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