Private Debt Funds Penfund: lessons from the OG of private lending Best practices of a private debt manager with a 40+year history. OPM Oct 13, 2021 4 min read
Private Debt Funds 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 OPM Sep 26, 2021 4 min read
HNW shops 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. OPM Sep 14, 2021 4 min read
HNW shops 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 OPM Aug 17, 2021 7 min read
Hedge funds 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. OPM Aug 9, 2021 3 min read
Hedge funds 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 OPM Jul 2, 2021 1 min read
Moguls 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 OPM Jun 29, 2021 2 min read
Memba them? Rod Baker, Neil Baker and Gordon Capital, the Disruptor of the 80s Rod Baker's dad Neil Baker was a Bay Street legend! OPM Jun 9, 2021 2 min read
Memba them? 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. OPM Jun 9, 2021 4 min read
Hedge funds The rise of Anson Funds and Moez Kassam Anson Funds and its founder Moez Kassam have emerged as players on Bay Street. OPM May 27, 2021 3 min read
HNW shops Gluskin Sheff downgraded to low-status An update on Gluskin Sheff under new owners Onex. OPM May 13, 2021 4 min read
Money Managers Bridging Finance bagholder update Recovery rates will be low. OPM May 4, 2021 1 min read