ROB Magazine Reveals the Most Important Investing Ideas of the Decade

TORONTO, Jan. 27 /CNW/ - Making money was still easy as recently as 2007. Investing in just about anything over the previous two decades was a smart move. Stocks, bonds, real estate, oil, gold, China, India, Donald Trump - all were climbing up, up, up. So were the retirement prospects of baby boomers. The only risk was not getting in the game. Then it all came crashing down. Now, just about every investment vehicle and strategy is suspect. Do we need new rules for grim new investment realities? Or do some traditional maxims still offer hope? The answer may be a bit of both. From investment alternatives to who to ask for advice, writers Scot Blythe and John Daly reveal some answers about the new rules of investing in the February issue of Report on Business magazine, available Friday, January 29. Also in this issue of Report on Business magazine:

There's millions in those milliseconds - A second is now a very long time in financial markets. Thanks to computer algorithms, traders can gather and interpret market data, and buy or sell securities in microseconds. Co-CEOs Alan Grujic and Sergei Tchetvertnykh's electronic upstart Infinium executes between 500,000 and one million trades of stocks, options, currencies and other financial instruments worldwide on any given day. Measured by volume of shares, it is often the largest single trader of major companies listed on the TSX- more active than any of the otherwise dominant investment dealers owned by Canada's Big Five banks. Writer John Daly takes a closer look at the world of high-frequency trading-where fortunes are made 0.0032 cents at a time.

Generation R - It's no secret that a majority of Canadians are ill-prepared for retirement. A recent poll found 32 percent of Canadians have yet to even begin tucking away funds for retirement. With only $9,000 in RSP savings, 32-year-old Dave McGinn is one of them. That's not going to stop him from attempting the impossible: to retire rich in 10 years. With a home to pay off, a car to fix, and a year-old daughter who one day will want to wear shoes - is his quest impossible? McGinn provides a first person account of his plan.

Report on Business magazine is Canada's most-read business publication. Published on the last Friday of every month in The Globe and Mail, Report on Business magazine offers readers insightful, award-winning coverage of Canadian and global business and economics and is available with copies of The Globe and Mail and online at www.reportonbusiness.com/magazine. The Globe and Mail is a division of CTVglobemedia, a dynamic multimedia company that also owns CTV, Canada's leading private broadcaster.

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TORONTO, Jan. 11 /CNW/ - As entrepreneurs and small business operators fuel the Canadian economy, The Globe and Mail is enhancing and up-dating its suite of editorial products targeted at this community. Starting today, a new web hub launches within globeandmail.com under the Your Business brand banner. As of the March issue, Report on (Small) Business magazine will be renamed Your Business and also coming shortly is a weekly Your Business page in the Report on Business section of the newspaper. The combination of digital, magazine and newspaper content will provide integrated, 360-degree coverage of and reach to small- and medium-sized business. The Your Business web site will have a social media component where readers will be able to connect with Your Business Editor, Sean Stanleigh, and other readers through LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. "Entrepreneurial business owners and operators don't define their businesses as 'small'. What they want is meaningful, practical information, inspiration and insight that they can apply to the specific needs of their business," said Phillip Crawley, Publisher and CEO, The Globe and Mail. "Advertisers need to reach these busy people in environments where they're finding content of value. The Your Business properties will deliver a motivated audience to advertisers," said Andrew Saunders, Vice President, Advertising Sales, The Globe and Mail.

The web site at globeandmail.com/yourbusiness will feature content in key areas including: starting a business; growing and maintaining an existing business; and succession planning/selling a business. Content will also be clustered around key themes such as leadership, finance and taxation, innovation, technology, and more. "Advertisers can be located in the areas that best fit their audience's business life cycle and sectors," said Saunders. Advertising opportunities on the web site include video, sponsorship, content partnerships, contest and promotions, special focus microsites, tactical advertising and e-mail programs. The Globe has worked with many leading advertisers like Cisco, Intel, American Express, Business Development Corporation, DELL Computers, Imagewear, Royal Bank of Canada, among others, to help them reach the small business market with impact. The Globe and Mail already delivers the best reach to senior managers and owners of small- and medium-sized businesses of any media option in Canada. Globe readers are more likely than the average small business employee to influence IT, finance, office equipment, and business travel purchase decisions (PMB Fall 2009 - two-year study.)

For the magazine, The Globe has an exclusive partnership with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) to distribute 75,000 copies to CFIB membership, in addition to direct distribution of 80,000 copies through select home subscriptions of the newspaper, making it one of the largest circulated business magazines in Canada. Small businesses (less than 100 employees) account for 98 per cent of all businesses in Canada and employ almost half the nation's labour force. (Source: Industry Canada.) The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, is a division of CTVglobemedia, a dynamic multi-media company, which also owns CTV Inc., Canada's number-one private broadcaster. For further information: or to arrange an interview, please contact: Jill Anzarut: (416) 969-2078, janzarut@environicspr.com

New Web Hub Launches Today

TORONTO, Jan. 11 /CNW/ - As entrepreneurs and small business operators fuel the Canadian economy, The Globe and Mail is enhancing and up-dating its suite of editorial products targeted at this community. Starting today, a new web hub launches within globeandmail.com under the Your Business brand banner. As of the March issue, Report on (Small) Business magazine will be renamed Your Business and also coming shortly is a weekly Your Business page in the Report on Business section of the newspaper. The combination of digital, magazine and newspaper content will provide integrated, 360-degree coverage of and reach to small- and medium-sized business. The Your Business web site will have a social media component where readers will be able to connect with Your Business Editor, Sean Stanleigh, and other readers through LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. "Entrepreneurial business owners and operators don't define their businesses as 'small'. What they want is meaningful, practical information, inspiration and insight that they can apply to the specific needs of their business," said Phillip Crawley, Publisher and CEO, The Globe and Mail. "Advertisers need to reach these busy people in environments where they're finding content of value. The Your Business properties will deliver a motivated audience to advertisers," said Andrew Saunders, Vice President, Advertising Sales, The Globe and Mail. The web site at globeandmail.com/yourbusiness will feature content in key areas including: starting a business; growing and maintaining an existing business; and succession planning/selling a business. Content will also be clustered around key themes such as leadership, finance and taxation, innovation, technology, and more. "Advertisers can be located in the areas that best fit their audience's business life cycle and sectors," said Saunders. Advertising opportunities on the web site include video, sponsorship, content partnerships, contest and promotions, special focus microsites, tactical advertising and e-mail programs. The Globe has worked with many leading advertisers like Cisco, Intel, American Express, Business Development Corporation, DELL Computers, Imagewear, Royal Bank of Canada, among others, to help them reach the small business market with impact. The Globe and Mail already delivers the best reach to senior managers and owners of small- and medium-sized businesses of any media option in Canada. Globe readers are more likely than the average small business employee to influence IT, finance, office equipment, and business travel purchase decisions (PMB Fall 2009 - two-year study.) For the magazine, The Globe has an exclusive partnership with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) to distribute 75,000 copies to CFIB membership, in addition to direct distribution of 80,000 copies through select home subscriptions of the newspaper, making it one of the largest circulated business magazines in Canada. Small businesses (less than 100 employees) account for 98 per cent of all businesses in Canada and employ almost half the nation's labour force. (Source: Industry Canada.)

The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, is a division of CTVglobemedia, a dynamic multi-media company, which also owns CTV Inc., Canada's number-one private broadcaster.

For further information: or to arrange an interview, please contact: Jill Anzarut: (416) 969-2078, janzarut@environicspr.com