This summer, instead of letting your children fritter away their vacation playing video games, encourage them to start a small business by running an old-fashioned lemonade stand. From creating posters, to setting up the lemonade stand, to squeezing the lemons, they will get to see firsthand how their hard work can pay off. A way to add more meaning to their enterprise is to donate some of the...

The markets seem to be showing a certain pessimism lately, which makes it difficult to maintain our perspective and to keep from complaining that our investments have performed poorly over the last quarter or even the last year. It becomes especially hard when we hear about a daunting gauntlet of risks that includes the unforeseen - an unnerving terrorist strike in India, higher oil prices, the s...

For many years, you savoured that wonderful time of the year when your youngsters went back to school. Ah, the free time ... at last some emotional and financial relief from keeping the kids entertained all summer! But now your bundle of joy is headed for college and you both face new, monumental challenges. In a recent study by Key Education Resources, 66 per cent of parents are not prepared ...