Articles in this issue:
Chairman’s Message: Net Worth Management
As one of the leading multi-family office firms in Canada, we practice our unique Net Worth Management™ approach for families, individuals and foundations…
What is a Family Office?
A relatively recent phenomenon is the multi-family office, which has arrived along with the proliferation of wealthy families in the past 20 years…
Can You Achieve Perpetual, Guaranteed, Risk-Free Return?
At Northwood, we place great emphasis on determining and implementing ‘asset structuring’ strategies long before investment decisions are even considered…
Long-Term Investing in a Short-Term World
We live in a time where information and ideas can be transformed into action in a matter of seconds. For long-term investors, it is important to separate what can be done from what should be done…
A Charitable Federal Budget
On May 2, 2006, in his Federal budget, Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty reduced the capital gains inclusion rate on donations of publicly listed securities to charitable organizations and public foundations from 25% to 0%…
Report on China
Over the next 10 years, 40% of global GDP growth will come from the world’s rapidly developing economies, with a huge proportion of that coming from the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China). China itself is currently a $2 trillion economy and is growing at 8% to 10% per year…