Does Money Buy Happiness? Lynn MacNeil November 28, 2018 267 Managing Your Money When people are asked what kind of things they think will make them happy or have a successful life, many answer with things to do with money. A good job, a high salary, a nice house, a b...
Henry Dauphin – taking his colleagues in The Refinery to international success Peter Kerr November 3, 2018 482 Henry Dauphin is the charismatic leader of The Refinery, a Montreal-based management firm which works with promising entrepreneurs to successfully grow their start-up businesses. Since its inception, The Refine...
We pass on to the next generation what we have learned from the previous generation Lynn MacNeil November 2, 2018 249 Managing Your Money Recently, I was thinking back to when I was a child and how I often watched my parents fix all sorts of items. Anything from a broken radio to a ripped pair of jeans. They usually took th...
Birks re-opens its historic flagship store with elegant renovations and new high-end Brand exclusivities Peter Kerr October 5, 2018 551 The windows have been re-opened to the street, as seen here in the Cartier boutique For generations, the Birks store on Ste-Catherine Street at Phillips Square was the ‘go to’ store of Montreal’s elite to p...
Why Rock the Boat? Lynn MacNeil October 4, 2018 456 Managing Your Money Why Rock the Boat? I remember an occasion years ago when a lady I had recently met with was facing a very delicate situation. She was about to have a very difficult conversation with her l...
Pembroke Management celebrates its 50th Anniversary Peter Kerr September 27, 2018 516 Innovation, Insight and Growth since 1968 In 1968, a group of four Montrealers with expertise in the financial services sector established a company to manage the assets of several U.K. based institutional inv...
Structure vs Freedom: Understanding what works best for you Lynn MacNeil August 21, 2018 494 Managing Your Money I got my first credit card at 15 years old, and it wasn’t “Daddy” who was planning to pay the bills (though he did cosign for me to get the card). As he was helping me to fill out the fo...
Redefining Retirement – Creating a Part II Lynn MacNeil July 22, 2018 482 Managing Your Money I recently congratulated long-time clients on successfully achieving “retirement”. I put retirement in quotations marks because retirement is being redefined these days, as their situati...
How technology and “Big Brother” are changing the insurance world as well as our lives Lynn MacNeil June 14, 2018 529 Managing Your Money When I received my last car insurance renewal, I called the company to see if there was anything they could do to reduce my premium. The woman offered the options of installing a device ...
Why financial decisions shouldn’t always be about money Lynn MacNeil April 19, 2018 789 Managing Your Money I remember early in my career trying to convince a client why keeping so much money in her bank account was a bad idea. When I asked her why she was insistent on leaving such a large bala...
