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Winding up a family trust to avoid the tax hit

Winding up a family trust to avoid the tax hit

High net worth families often use family trusts for estate and succession planning. But because they are deemed to have sold all of their assets on each 21st anniversary, family trusts in effect have a tax life span of only 21 years.
U.S. presidential debate: Is it time to buy 鈥榗risis hedges鈥?

U.S. presidential debate: Is it time to buy 鈥榗risis hedges鈥?

Getting worried about the outcome of the U.S. election? If so, join the growing club.
What brutiful moment am I in?

What brutiful moment am I in?

Brutiful, as defined by Glennon Doyle Melton: "adj.: Life is brutal. And life is beautiful. Brutiful, I call it. Life鈥檚 brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly they are inseparable. We must embrace both or neither.
Creating investment success I: Uncovering industry illusions

Creating investment success I: Uncovering industry illusions

What you are about to read is a rare occurrence in my industry. It will rub some of my peers the wrong way.
Not one of them was like the other

Not one of them was like the other

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, is not a person to worry about details. I told him repeatedly that we were going to Ontario to attend a wedding in my wife鈥檚 family. I made it clear we would be gone seven days, but it was all lost on him.
An apt definition

An apt definition

Dear Editor Today鈥檚 English lesson: trumpery. This word has been used since the days of Shakespeare. It means showy but worthless finery, bric a brac, nonsense, rubbish; from trompert 鈥 to cheat. Robert Wood Battleford
The enigma of China鈥檚 missing 鈥榗rash鈥

The enigma of China鈥檚 missing 鈥榗rash鈥

Confucius once said that 鈥渆verything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.鈥 China may be today鈥檚 Confucian case in point. The bulls (if we may speak for the handful of them still holding their day jobs) are seemingly near extinction.
The senior dance bands fraternity

The senior dance bands fraternity

Usually every morning during the week at the Discovery Co-op Cafeteria, local musicians and a few of their wives and friends meet for coffee.
A lesson from history: protecting water sources

A lesson from history: protecting water sources

By Fred Clipsham Last week a law firm posted an ad in Saskatchewan newspapers advising people who were under the age of 18 and became ill at the time of the North Battleford contaminated water event in the spring of 2001 of a settlement under a class
Why we need more women in politics

Why we need more women in politics

I am happy to see so many councillors running for the election this time around. Eleven candidates for council and three for mayor is nothing to sneeze at. However, I am discouraged by the fact that there are only two women among a 14 person race.
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