Rob Carrick has been writing about personal finance, business and economics for close to 20 years. He joined Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, in late 1996 as an investment reporter and has been a personal finance columnist since November 1998. In previous jobs with the Canadian Press, he covered the federal department of finance in Ottawa and the Bay Street business scene. Carrick is married to Theresa Humphrys and they live in Ottawa with their two sons, Will and Jamie, and a dog and a cat. He is an avid runner, an avid reader and a fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, a fact he attributes to his roots in Toronto and not to common sense.