Penfund: lessons from the OG of private lending
Best practices of a private debt manager with a 40+year history.
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OPM
Third Eye Capital and the fall of the Buca restaurant empire
Third Eye Capital's involvement in the spectacular collapse of the restaurant empire comprising Buca, La Banaane, Jacobs & Co and Jamie's Italian.
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Ninepoint will sell any old crap, their AIP fund is a case in point
Ninepoint Partners and AIP Asset Management partner to sell another crappy fund.
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Finding the next Bridging Finance
Many months before Bridging Finance was put into receivership, I received tips about how fishy it was. When Admiral Gary
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How total outsider Liddle Mo Lidsky built and sold Prime Quadrant in under 10 years
Objectively, what Mo Lidsky has accomplished at Prime Quadrant is remarkable. Prime Quadrant's big transformation started in 2011.
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My opening salvo against Prime Quadrant
Many people said I could never become presidential and yet I have not written anything incendiary in many months. I
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Polar Asset Management and Paul Sabourin, the alpha dog of Canadian hedge funds
Believe it or not, Polar is now almost as big as Wealthsimple. But much more profitable.
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SEC accuses Polar Asset Management trader of front-running scheme
Sean Wygovsky, CFA, a Toronto-based trader was arrested this morning and charged with securities and wire fraud in a front-running
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Steve Scotchmer - Mark Leonard's muse and the best private investor you have never heard of
One way of finding potential good managers is to look at the biggest winners in
the stock market and finding
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Rod Baker, Neil Baker and Gordon Capital, the Disruptor of the 80s
Rod Baker's dad Neil Baker was a Bay Street legend!
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The Millennial's guide to Gordon Capital, Jimmy Connacher and Neil Baker
A guide to the legendary Gordon Capital, the Big, Bad disruptor of the 80s... like The Wolf of Wall Street, but in a convenient blog post format.
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The rise of Anson Funds and Moez Kassam
Anson Funds and its founder Moez Kassam have emerged as players on Bay Street.
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