NoBull Klev

Introducing the OPM Flaccid Manager Exchange

OPM Flaccid Manager Exchange is the Ebay for sub-scale or retiring asset managers. Surrender your flaccid money management business to Bay Street's only Frontstabber!

OPM Apr 21, 2022 2 min read

Hedge funds

Jeremy Weisstub and Aryeh Capital, a hedge fund with high pedigree and a $75m backer

Hotshot hedge fund still struggles to beat market.

OPM Apr 13, 2022 5 min read

Moguls

The Oracle of Ancaster - Doug Putman of Putman Investments

The Globe recently outed a retail turnaround artist and empire builder. He is largely unknown to Bay Street, so I put together his basic info here.

OPM Mar 23, 2022 3 min read

Tech/VC

Move over Anthony Lacavera, Canada has a new telecom messiah

OXIO is trying to disrupt Bell and Rogers at providing Internet service.

OPM Mar 2, 2022 5 min read

Private Debt Funds

Ninepoint Third Eye suspends redemptions - an update

Some worrying developments at Third Eye.

OPM Mar 1, 2022 3 min read

Moguls

Stephen Smith of First National: from bankrupt at 34 to billionaire

How Stephen Smith built a financial services conglomerate from the ashes of ruin.

OPM Feb 19, 2022 5 min read

Moguls

I am outing two mortgage billionaires: Stephen Smith and Moray Tawse of First National

Canada's first fintech billionaires - thirty years in the making.

OPM Feb 14, 2022 4 min read

Private Debt Funds

A Ninepoint fund advisor got Gary Ng’d

Chasing fool's yield: steady returns from "alternative income" products prove illusory yet again.

OPM Jan 26, 2022 5 min read

Hedge funds

Hedge fund update featuring MMCAP, Waratah, Bedford Park and Senvest

A pot pourri of 2021 hedge fund numbers.

OPM Jan 21, 2022 2 min read

Family offices

The Westons are flush with billions to deploy

Wittington has a new President, Cornell Wright, who will get to deploy billions this year.

OPM Jan 17, 2022 4 min read

Calgary

Bob Dhillon, Barbara Stymiest and Vahan Kololian named to Order of Canada

Even with something as benign as the Order of Canada, I can create polemics.

OPM Dec 29, 2021 2 min read

Private Debt Funds

The Ninepoint Third Eye Capital fund: initiating with a rating of PoS

The Ninepoint Third Eye Capital fund has more red flags than a Chinese Communist Party banquet.

OPM Nov 24, 2021 12 min read