Michael Decter

Topics

Presentations

HEALTHCARE FOCUS:

Canada/U.S. Health Reform
Decter will compare the reform initiatives in the US and Canada with examples and will outline the challenges health providers, health managers and patients will face in coming years as reforms move into implementation. He will also review the progress of the Canadian reforms initiated in 2004.

Towards The Next Canadian Health System
The health system of tomorrow is emerging under the pressure of lower growth in health spending and an aging population. Michael Decter will speak to these shifts using practical examples and real case studies of how and where change is occurring.

Maintaining Your health & Wealth Through a Time of Transition
We are in a time where many fear for their economic future. Will they have a job? Will their pension be there when they need it? Will their investments recover? Less obvious but equally important are the impacts of stress and uncertainty on health. Will stress aggravate chronic conditions? How to stay healthy in a time of change.

Navigating Canada's Health Care: The User Guide to Getting the Care You Need
Targetted to both consumers and health care organizations, Decter focuses on best-practice health care through three stages of life. How can you navigate our healthcare system?

Four Strong Winds of Change
Decter looks at transformations in global health care and its impact.

Canada/U.S. Health Care Reform
By comparing the two, Decter looks at what we can learn from each other to improve health care.

Towards the Next Canadian Health Care System
Decter will look at the transformations occurring in Canadian health care, offering insights that are both relevant and useful.

FINANCIAL FOCUS:

Surviving Markets
How to manage the best performing global small capital funds in turbulent markets. How to protect your investments.

10 Good Reasons to Invest in Canada
The ideas in 10 Good Reasons are the insights we apply each day to managing the investment funds entrusted to us. It is essential to look beyond the short-term negativity no matter how troubling and assess longer-term realities.

Million Dollar Strategy: Building Your Own Retirement Fund in Just Thirty Minutes a Day
Learn how you can take control of your RRSP and your retirement future. How to get started on the road to understanding the right investments for your RRSP.

POLITICAL FOCUS:

Tales from the Political Boardroom
Told in a humorous fashion, learn how decisions are really made.

Summary Profile

Michael Decter is a Harvard-trained economist who possesses an optimistic outlook during the pessimistic economic times we are facing. He successfully forecasted back in 2006, when he started writing his book, 10 Good Reasons to Invest in Canada, that our country was poised for a very strong period of growth and prosperity. His latest book is Tales From the Back Room: Memories of a Political Insider treats the readers to a range of raunchy and riveting stories of politics in Canada.

He said Canada – after several decades of underperforming economically compared to the United States – would strengthen, and his prediction came to fruition. Although Decter says a strong decade ahead remains viable for Canada despite the global financial turmoil and decline in commodity prices, our country will not escape unscathed.

There will be some short-term pain for Canadians – jobs will be lost, incomes will be curtailed, and business will slow – but Canada’s economic fundamentals are solid, as well as its approach to managing the nation’s finances and health care.

Decter, who was appointed a member of the prestigious Order of Canada in 2004, is currently the managing director of Michael Decter and Associates Ltd., and also serves as CEO of the investment management firm, LDIC Inc.

He is a charming speaker who is frank and informative with just the right amount of humour. Decter will share how to look beyond the short-term negativity that surrounds our economy, no matter how troubling things may seem, and assess longer-term realities.

Highlights:

• More than three decades of experience as a senior manager

• Member of the Order of Canada

• Author of the book, 10 Good Reasons to Invest in Canada

Client Testimonials:

"Your presentation was the highlight of the meeting … your remarks underlined the complexity of the problem, offered some optimism for accomplishing meaningful change and threw out some interesting challenges to the private sector."

Public Policy Forum, Ottawa, Ontario