Robert Abboud is the president and founder of
Wealth Strategies Investment and Financial
Planning, a fee-based financial planning firm
located in Ottawa. He has worked in the financial
services industry since 1991 and has a bachelor of
economics from Ottawa University and holds the
Personal Financial Planner (PFP) designation
issued by the Institute of Canadian Bankers and
the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation
issued by the Financial Planners Standards Council
(FPSC) of Canada.
Rob left his position at the bank after five
years and decided to establish Wealth Strategies
in 1996. He wanted to create a unique financial
planning practice that focused on helping a very
select clientele. Rob is involved in helping his
clients not only plan for the future but also
achieve life goals along the way.
A recipient of the Ottawa Business Journal's
prestigious Forty Under 40 award and the Queen's
Golden Jubilee Commemorative Medal, Rob has always
been an active member of his local community.
Andy
Gause
Uncle Sam Cooks the
Books
Andrew Guase knows about money.
He knows about real money, funny money, and money that
isn't money. I thought you might like to
explore these clarifications at a time when nobody
seems know what is happening in the world of money -
especially YOUR MONEY.
His latest book is called Uncle Sam Cooks the Books - is that someone in the kitchen
again who is burning a perfectly good roast?
Andrew has attracted a wide following with over
1,000 TV and radio appearances, publishes a
newsletter, THE WORLD OF MONEY, in its 20th year,
and has authored two books.
Andrew's first book, The Secret World of Money,
challenges a wide range of topics dealing with the
history and future of money. For example: what is
the difference between a Bond and a Bill? Why debt
can be a blessing - not a curse. How much longer
can America's fiat currency system
endure?
Gary Ridenour attended
Hiram College and was at Woodstock and the Kent
State shootings. He interviewed at numerous
medical schools that refused his application
because they didn't like people that ,"rock the
boat." Gary attended medical school in
Guadalajara, Mexico and was one of the main
characters in the movie, "Bad Medicine," written
by a classmate. He ran his own clinic for the poor
out of a Catholic Church clinic and sometimes sat
and read up on a problem with the patient in the
room. Doctor Ridenour did his Internship in
Regina, Sakatchewan, and then moved to St. Louis
for his residency in Internal Medicine.
Later he set up the Critical Care Fellowship
Program and was the first fellow. After training
Dr. Ridenour ran the emergency room at St. Louis
City Hospital, where he saw a murder a day, a rape
a day and two gunshots to the chest a day. In 1975
he set up the first free-standing rape treatment
center at City Hospital and was, "Citizen of the
Year," in 1980. He decided to go West and arrived
in Fallon, Nevada in 1981. During the Reagan
years, Naval Air Station Fallon grew into the
premier fighter weapon school in the world and
boasts of being the home to, "Top Gun." Dr.
Ridneour has been heavily engaged in the leukemia
cluster in Fallon and has co-authored four papers
on the subject. He probably is the only citizen in
the U.S., who can say he turned an aircraft
carrier around toward home and made sure everyone
received antiviral medications on the way. His
current interest is in educating everyone on the
threat of the, "Avian Flu."
Avian Flu Pandemic
The current strain of avian flu kills about 60%
of the people who contract it in as little as
eight hours, Ridenour said. In order for it to
become a pandemic, he explained, the virus must
mutate down to a less lethal but far more
infectious form that can be spread from one person
to another. Ridenour estimates a one in three
chance of an avian flu pandemic in the near
future.
