How To Profit In The Stock Market
If we look over the past 15 years or so, it’s easy to understand why investors have been nervous. When the tech bubble burst in 2000, the market declined by almost 50 percent over 31 months. The market...
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Looking To The Next 50 Years
By David Furuya President and Owner of KZOO Radio KZOO Radio is proud to celebrate 50 years of radio broadcasting in Hawaii, and now our main focus is on the future and evolving so that KZOO is around...
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Business Leaders On The Move In Hawaii – 1/15/14
Liberty Peralta has been appointed director of communications at PBS Hawaii. In her new role, she will oversee the nonprofit organization’s communications, including media relations, advertising,...
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Social Media Helps Launch Clutch Line
Lil Coconut Hawaii owner Amanda Dela Cruz with her creations. Photo from Amanda Dela Cruz Several months ago, Amanda Dela Cruz snapped a photo of a cup of coffee adorned with a design on the surface...
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Creating Legendary Moments
By Brian Brigner Chief Operating Officer of Legends in Concert As Legends in Concert Waikiki celebrates its two-year anniversary, we have a lot to look forward to as we reach new heights with our...
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Business Leaders On The Move In Hawaii – 1/22/14
Matt Bailey has been hired as chief operating officer at Aston Hotels & Resorts. In his new position, Bailey is responsible for Aston’s daily operations and is based at the company’s Honolulu...
View ArticleMaking Sense Of The New Federal Health Care Law
Starting this year, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, took effect. It was passed in 2010, and it will take at least five years for all of its changes to take effect. ACA is the largest...
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Student Hopes To Kick-Start Pen Line
Grant Takara with his Airfoil pen | Photo from Grant Takara Like a lot of children, Grant Takara loved to build things when he was a kid. He often would spend a whole Saturday making his own toy ships...
View ArticleCredit And Tax-Return Breaches
Credit card breaches and identity theft unfortunately are becoming more common: 40 million customer names, card numbers, the security codes and expiration dates were stolen from Target between Nov. 27...
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Business Leaders On The Move In Hawaii – 1/29/14
Sharlene Chun-Lum has been appointed executive director of Papa Ola Lokahi. In her new role, Chun-Lum will work collaboratively with POL’s board and stakeholders, foster teamwork, plan and manage...
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Focusing On The Beauty Of The Islands
About 12 years ago, Tom Yim sold all of his belongings and left Los Angeles and a career in the fashion industry to move to the Islands and pursue his true passion: photography. Taken aback by the...
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Business Leaders on the Move in Hawaii – 2/5/14
Michelle Cabalse has been hired as a public involvement coordinator of Kiewit Building Group Inc. In her new role, she is responsible for helping the company plan and execute diverse...
View ArticleIs The Roth IRA Right For You?
One of the best ways to save for retirement is through individual retirement accounts (IRA). There are two different types of IRAs, traditional and Roth. A Roth IRA has unique characteristics that can...
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ARC Celebrates Centennial
By Brian Watamura Director of ARC Document Solutions If a business reaches its 100th anniversary, it can toast a storied past and its propensity to evolve. That’s certainly the case for Honolulu’s ARC...
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Friendly Approach Keeps Biz Thriving
Last week, I gave an Ilio Dentals’ Teeth Treat to each of my best friend’s three dogs. By all three of their accounts – if their rapid consumption and wagging tails were any indication – they loved the...
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Making Babies
By Thomas Kosasa, M.D. Medical Director of Pacific In Vitro Fertilization Institute Founded in 1985, Pacific In Vitro Fertilization Institute is Hawaii’s first IVF clinic. Our clinic was one of the...
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Business Leaders on the Move in Hawaii – 2/12/14
Johnathan C. Bolton has been named a partner with Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel LLP. His practice centers on business law, with a specialization in bankruptcy, insolvency and collections law....
View ArticleSecrets Of The Wealthy, Part 1
The No. 1 financial goal that I hear from people is that they want to be financially independent. They don’t want to worry about money when they are retired. They want to pursue their dreams and...
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Local Businesses Share Work With Legislators
Local entrepreneurs and small businesses at last year’s Entrepreneurs’ Day. Photo courtesy Dennis Ling, DBEDT From food to fashion and information technology to clean energy, Hawaii-grown businesses...
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Business Leaders on the Move in Hawaii – 2/19/14
Pattie Herman has been promoted to director of sales and marketing for Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. She will embark on sales and marketing initiatives for the U.S., European and worldwide...
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