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11:30 - 12:00 :: Richard Atkinson

Don’t Just Retire discusses essential topics such as: the importance of a positive attitude; realistic money management techniques; the best time of year to retire; leisure, health and well-being strategies; how to manage time effectively; steps for enriching relationships; how to have fun and how to live retirement to its fullest!

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12:00 - 12:30 :: John Stephenson

Bay Street veteran John Stephenson offers practical advice on how Canadian investors can make money by identifying profitable trends before they are yesterday’s news. Forward-looking and prescriptive, Shell Shocked makes sense of where the world is going—looking at demographics, food crises, inflation, energy, gold, base metals, housing, infrastructure, water and more—and how you can profit from it.
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12:30 - 1:00 :: Angela Self of The Smart Cookies

Inspired by an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show on personal finance, the Smart Cookies, five dynamic young women who weren’t always so savvy about money, formed a "money club”. Together they developed strategies for turning their financial lives around – without surrendering their sanity or their social lives.

In this guide, the Cookies demonstrate how women of all ages can achieve financial security. They share their own stories, offer easy-to-follow steps and lay out simple plans for meeting any goal, whether it’s eliminating debt, making good investments, becoming a smart spender or saving up for a big-ticket purchase.

1:30 - 2:00 :: Gordon Pape

Financial expert Gordon Pape explains the new Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), the powerful new personal savings vehicle for Canadians, and provides a range of strategies that you can use to add thousands of tax-exempt dollars to your personal wealth. This indispensible primer will help you get started on meeting your financial goals with the most valuable new savings program since the introduction of RRSPs more than 50 years ago.
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2:00 - 2:30 :: Joseph Heath

Joseph Heath, co-author of the international bestseller The Rebel Sell, wants to improve our economic literacy and empower us with new ideas. In Filthy Lucre, he draws on everyday examples to skewer the six favourite economic fallacies of the right, before impaling the six favourite fallacies of the left. Heath leaves no sacred cows un-tipped as he breaks down complex arguments and shows how the monetary world really works.
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2:30 - 3:00 :: Garth Turner

Financial expert Garth Turner answers each and every question you might have in this guide to everything you will need to know to deal with the fall-out from the recession. This isn’t crystal ball incantation or eye-glazing academic mumbo jumbo. It’s straight talk from an expert on what you can do to safeguard your investments…and your future.
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3:00 - 3:30 :: Pat Foran

Television personality and consumer advocate, Pat Foran shares tips and strategies about the questions and issues he sees most often and explains how some little things can soon add up to a lot of money. Packed with money-saving advice, The Smart Canadian’s Guide to Saving Money also includes the latest information on marketplace trends, the investment climate, housing prices, interest rates and other techniques for savings.
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3:30 - 4:00 :: Gail Bebee

This easy-to-read primer of investing basics was written expressly for Canadians by a savvy financial industry outsider. Drawing on her years of experience in the investment trenches, Bebee delivers the knowledge readers need to cut through financial industry hype and profitably invest their hard-earned money. It’s the book the author couldn’t find when she decided to take control of her money.
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4:00 - 4:30 :: Patricia Lovett-Reid

Get Real is a book that is filled with stories of female role models and describes their struggles and successes as they seek and achieve their true goals in life. Authentic success is highly achievable for anyone and this book was developed to show how money, lifestyle and happiness are all part of the same package.
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4:30 - 5:00 :: David Trahair

The stock market crash of 2008 has proven one thing: traditional retirement planning advice simply doesn't work. Throwing money into RRSPs and trusting the stock market is like gambling with your family's future. But how do you plan for retirement without risking everything? In Enough Bull, David Trahair explains how to invest only in 100% safe investments that will never decline, how to get out of mutual funds and the stock market forever and why you should wait until you are over 50 to start your RRSP.
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