The Cooper Files: A Practical Guide to Your Financial Future

This book has it all - sophisticated global analysis, a new agenda for the next millennium and an individual retirement planner. The Cooper Files is also an entertaining and easy-to-follow guide to the monumental, once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for financial gain that are presented by the technology revolution.

You will learn how to break free of the financial and career anxieties associated with this period of rapid change-how to ensure your financial security and that of your family. You will learn how to take control of your own destiny in a time of tremendous opportunity.

A leading economist and commentator on the global scene, Sherry Cooper assesses the growth sectors of the global economy and shows how you can position your career and investments to assure financial security and prosperity. Who will be the winners and losers? Which countries are the leaders and which are the laggards, and why? What can we do to maximize our own career and investment opportunities? Dr. Cooper answers these questions and provides inspiring portraits of individuals, industries and locales that are pointing the way forward, bucking the malaise that has infected the economy and creating dynamic change.

The internet is a major technological breakthrough that will permanently alter the course of our economic and financial future. It provides astounding opportunities for profit; it also calls into question most of our traditional business models. Every aspect of the corporate world will be affected. Those who are slow to respond will never recover their competitive advantage. This book explains what you can do to ride this upwave in economic activity, an upwave that will last for another twenty-five years.

Dr. Sherry Cooper is chief economist and senior vice-president of Nesbitt Burns, a leading Canadian investment dealer and member of the Bank of Montreal group of companies. She is in constant demand as a speaker and writer because of her ability to simplify and demystify the seemingly complex subjects of economics and investment strategy.

Dr. Cooper has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh. She was a staff economist at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and director of the financial economics at the Federal National Mortgage Association, both in Washington, D.C. She moved to Canada in 1983. She is the most widely quoted economist in Canada, and has a significant global following. Dr. Cooper gives more than two hundred speeches each year, is a former member of the Barron's Economic Roundtable, writes a bi-weekly column for the National Post and makes regular appearances on CNBC, CNN, CBC, and CTV.