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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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		<title>Family Meetings an Important Tool for Business Families</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/06/04/family-meetings-an-important-tool-for-business-families/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 13:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting how often, when I talk to the senior generation of a family about their planning, that I find that they have not spoken with their children or grandchildren. Children and grandchildren are the focus, indeed the purpose of the planning, but they are not asked what they want or informed why decisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling the Business…It’s Not Just Economics</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/04/25/selling-the-business%e2%80%a6it%e2%80%99s-not-just-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a battle going on inside me last year that took more than enough energy. It wasn’t an illness it was the emotional battle that follows the sale of a business. While the battle roared inside me there were times when I could stand outside myself, examine the emotions that occupied me and realize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sudden and Unexpected</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/03/29/sudden-and-unexpected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was driving to a seminar recently when a radio report advised me that the road ahead was blocked as the result of a serious accident. I listened and felt relief that my exit would be well before the accident, it should not hold me up. A short time later the radio voice announced that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Family Business Plan Must Plan for the Family</title>
		<link>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/03/11/the-family-business-plan-must-plan-for-the-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.100yearco.com/2011/03/11/the-family-business-plan-must-plan-for-the-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Brown C.A, CFP, CLU</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most families in business, the financial wealth of the family is focused in the business; when it comes to discussion of business succession, therefore, it is really a family matter. Succession planning occurs on two fronts, the ownership transition and the management transition each with its own issues but each connected to the other. [...]]]></description>
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