MORE MONEY THAN HE KNEW WHAT TO DO WITH

PAUL WALDIE

For weeks he'd been fending off questions from anxious clients who were worried about their investments and the whereabouts of the cheques he used to send so regularly. And these weren't ordinary clients. They were his father, mother, aunt, friends from high school, college buddies. Many of them had been counting on him for years to manage their life savings. They included people like Altaf Hussain, who was relying on Cowan to help put his daughter, Aisha, through university. And Cowan's 62-year-old aunt, Charlotte Munro, who had entrusted her nephew with $200,000 and depended on him to keep sending $750 a month to supplement her $1,200 monthly pension. And Judie Benyei, who needed Cowan to ensure there was enough money to pay the bills at her octogenerian aunt's nursing home.