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The Globe and Mail's Globe Investor section (which replaced Net Worth) is dedicated to giving you what you need to manage your personal finances successfully. Globe Investor appears every Saturday in The Globe and Mail and on globeinvestor.com. View our archive of past Globe Investor issues.
TOP STORY
Cooking With Gas
Natural gas prices are soaring amid growing demand from U.S. power generators, and the market isn't likely to wane any time soon, ANDREW BELL writes. Investors, many of whom will pay vastly higher heating bills this winter, may want to ease the sting by buying shares of major Canadian natural gas producers.
By ANDREW BELL
Feel that nasty draft?It's coming from south of the border, where power-mad America is terrified that this winter may be a frozen ordeal as energy shortages worsen.
Pension is key to couple's retirement
By ANDREW ALLENTUCK
Joe and Helen Legrand (not their real names) are the kind of people politicians refer to when they talk about average Canadians. Lifelong residents of St. John's, they have worked hard -- Joe for three decades as an administrator for the government of Newfoundland, Helen for 15 years in private industry as a secretary before she quit work to become a full-time homemaker.
Playing the market lights ex-smoker's fire
This week TONY MARTIN profiles a retired CN yard agent who loves the independence and control technology brings to investing
By TONY MARTIN
Call it freedom 52. Weighing in at 226 pounds (103 kilograms) and with a two-pack-a-day smoking habit, Jim MacArthur, 70, saw his way out of the haze 18 years ago at 52.
Can Biotech Stocks Survive a Bear Attack?
All of technology's subgroups have fallen prey to vicious selling, except biotechnology. Now some market watchers are wondering how long the group's lofty valuations can last.
By ANGELA BARNES
Throughout the rout of technology stocks in recent weeks, as investors clubbed the great and the small to their knees, only one of the group's subsections showed any resilience -- biotechnology.
NET WORTH - BEST BUYS
A weekly scorecard of some of the lowest and highest rates and yields across Canada. The survey of mortgage, GIC and car loans - taken from a sample of companies by Cannex Financial Exchanges - covers posted rates only so consumers may be able to haggle for a better deal at some financial institutions.
Why you need to buy good disability insurance
By GAIL VAZ-OXLADE
Most of us don't give much thought to how a disability -- temporary or permanent -- would affect our lives and, by extension, the lives of our families. After all, who wants to think such depressing thoughts.
Raising foreign content key to good RRSP performance
By ROB CARRICK
If you think the stock markets in Canada and the United States have been a mess lately, you should check out the carnage around the globe.Of the 23 national stock markets tracked by Morgan Stanley Capital International, just nine are up this year. Canada is one of the markets in the black -- though just barely, following the downturn of the past six weeks -- while the others include investing hotbeds such as Luxembourg, Denmark and Norway. On the down side are Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the United States, all down at least 8.5 per cent year to date.
Exchange-traded funds offer valuable tax efficiency
By TIM CESTNICK
It was my birthday Tuesday. I don't feel any older than I did a year ago. You see, I keep hanging around progressively older people each year. By the time I'm 50, I'll feel like a teenager again.
AHEAD OF THE CURVE
Why there's now little incentive to support a declining loonie
By JEFFREY RUBIN
The Canadian dollar's biggest problem right now is that the Bank of Canada no longer has a reason to defend it. Bank of Canada Governor Gordon Thiessen can talk all he wants about upside inflation risks, but he has a pretty tough sell ahead of him if he wants foreign exchange markets to think he might be raising interest rates any time soon.
HOT HAND
A look at what the hot fund managers are buying
By ANDREW ALLENTUCK
The AIC World Advantage Fund has achieved a rare distinction since its inception in June, 1998.For the year ended Oct. 31, it earned 42.1 per cent, a high first-quartile result that left it near the top of every other standard measuring period from three months to two years.
Home Heating Costs To Soar
By ANDREW BELL
Expect your home's natural gas heating bill to be about 50 per cent higher this winter because of climbing gas prices, depending on where you live and assuming the weather isn't colder than last year.
STARS & DOGS
A selection of this week's winners and losers DOGS
Imax (IMX - TSE) $5.85, down 35cents What are this gang showing on their monster screens -- Gastrointestinal Infections in Older Donkeys? Imax made a big production of it when head ushers Dick Gelfond and Brad Wechsler bought stock in a moving gesture of support. But with the movie theatre industry collapsing, investors who took in this show are sitting bolt-upright as stale popcorn congeals in their sagging mouths.
On-line stock pollsters gauge investor outlook
By ROB CARRICK
www.epredict.com Before you buy your next stock, it might be a good idea to look at some polling data to see what other investors think about your choice.
WHO'S HOT
Keith Ainsworth Rocket man Keith, starfleet commander at Com Dev International,is churning out his dilithium crystals for communications satellites and the wireless Internet. Com Dev shares are in warp drive, soaring four-fold this year to trade at more than $19.
