Finance

The popular academic conception that hedge fund returns are simply beta in alpha clothing is an important case for passive replication of hedge fund returns. If much of the returns of hedge funds are not true alpha but rather beta, it could make more sense to replicate them rather than to invest directly in hedge funds. Furthermore, with many hedge …

Whenever a marriage breaks down, the emotional toll on both parties is tremendous. But what people are usually unprepared for is the wide range of financial matters that need to be thought about when it comes to divide the couple's assets.

How to Get the Most Out of Your Divorce Financially is an invaluable source of information for anyone going thr …

With More than one trillion dollars in bonds outstanding, the Canadian fixed income market is enormous. In fact, its daily trading volume is almost five times that of the equity markets. Yet investors and even many financial advisors know little about it. In Your Best Interest demystifies the retail fixed income market, from the basics of a bond to …

Introduction: Canada in an Unstable Financial World
Brian K. MacLean, Economics, Laurentian University

Part I: Putting Financial Market Turmoil in Perspective

Globalization and National Interests: The Adventure of

Silent Partners: Taxpayers and the Bankrolling of Bombardier is the shocking account of how the Canadian taxpayer unwittingly bankrolled the rise and fall of the Bombardier empire.Bombardiers improbable rise from snowmobile manufacturer in backwoods Quebec to the worlds largest producer of rail and mass transit equipment and the third-largest aircr …