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		<title>Can Games Help Families Develop Transition Strategies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stood beside Dr. Camille Rutherford of Brock University at the Ultimate Gaming Challenge in Niagara Falls early in May. We watched two young guys perform in front of an X-Box, guiding a virtual raft down what looked like a rugged tributary of the Amazon. “I’m interested in how games can help families in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The family’s human capital is key to business success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A portfolio manager I work with on a regular basis has the credo “pay attention to the risks and the returns will look after themselves”. When we work with business families that credo could be paraphrased “pay attention to the family and the business will look after itself”. The fact is a family business, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Succession planning is just a stepping stone in the family prosperity process</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear is a primal motivator in human beings and a major factor why most business owners haven’t done any succession planning. It’s hard for people who have spent a career building a business to think about stopping. Not building anymore; it goes against their instincts. Business builders are typically optimists; it’s one of my favorite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wealth vs. Prosperity</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2012/03/16/wealth-vs-prosperity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We hear a lot about wealth; it’s the devotion to wealth that keeps our banks and lawyers …wealthy; wealth management, growing wealth, protecting wealth. Prosperity on the other hand is an overlooked word. Very few business owners want wealth for the sake of wealth. Most, when they have time to think about it, are more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regulation vs Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/09/30/regulation-vs-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My father used to tell me that a socialist is someone who loves humanity but hates people. I think of that line sometimes as I hear of the increasing predominance of regulation in our society. In the last few weeks I have heard of the coming regulation of farmers in Ontario that may consign Niagara’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the Guard</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/08/08/changing-the-guard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anne and I came home from our round the world trip in 1979 with $300 in traveller’s cheques and a $270 Visa bill, net worth thirty bucks (but it was all in cash) I secured a line of credit for $3,000 and I started my own business, a public accounting office. The first thing I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monsters Among Us</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/07/26/monsters-among-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was born in Oslo. In recent years I’ve grown to know and admire the city I left as a small child. I have travelled the world in my adult life, seen every continent except Africa (it’s on the list) and enjoyed the people and the variety of cultures that give richness to life, around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Control is Thrust Upon You</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/07/19/when-control-is-thrust-upon-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love and money; advisors who work with family businesses work daily with these two driving forces, probably the strongest motivators known to humans. When a life partner who runs the business dies suddenly the emotions attached to love and money are magnified. Added to them is the feeling of loneliness, the lack of someone to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Time Horizon Long Enough for Succession Planning?</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/06/27/is-your-time-horizon-long-enough-for-succession-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost in the day-to-day? Too busy trying to stay ahead of the bankers, bureaucrats and competition to think about succession or any kind of planning? There is a basic business rule that says that your worth to your business is equal to what you would pay someone else to do your job. In more practical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What will you retire to?</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/06/13/what-will-you-retire-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 02:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They call it the entrepreneur’s dream: someone drives up (in a white Cadillac), cheque book in hand and writes you a cheque for 10 per cent more than the company is worth…the day after you decide its time to retire. But now what? Finding the guy in the Cadillac may be the easy part. If [...]]]></description>
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