Kompromat

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Private Debt Funds

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.

Oct 3, 2021 5 min read

Private Debt Funds

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.

Sep 28, 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

Sep 26, 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

Aug 17, 2021 7 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

Jul 2, 2021 1 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!

Jun 9, 2021 2 min read

HNW shops

Gluskin Sheff downgraded to low-status

An update on Gluskin Sheff under new owners Onex.

May 13, 2021 4 min read

Moguls

Vaccine tourist Rod Baker of Great Canadian Gaming fame

Can he avoid the slammer?

May 4, 2021 1 min read

Kompromat

Key players in the Bridging Finance shutdown

Featuring Ninepoint Partners (the former Sprott Asset Management), Admiral Gary Ng and the former CEO of OPTrust.

May 1, 2021 2 min read

HNW shops

Burgundy Asset Management's origin myth

If status isn't the most important thing, then why is Richard Rooney - a man with $13 million

Jan 25, 2021 3 min read

HNW shops

paid

Burgundy Asset Management downgraded to low-status

Jan 13, 2021 4 min read

Hedge funds

Martin Connell and the Ewing Morris dilemma

The Ewing Morris Opportunities Fund had one of the more notable negative performances of 2020. It was still down 21.

Jan 11, 2021 3 min read

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