Moguls Moray Tawse: A billionaire straight outta Rexdale The lesser-known co-founder of mortgage lender First National. OPM Sep 15, 2023 3 min read
Moguls The apprenticeship of Miles Nadal: a capital allocator's journey Miles Nadal has been transitioning from a marketing guy to financier for decades. OPM Apr 4, 2023 6 min read
Memba them? Ira Gluskin is still around, believe it or not It’s 2023 and Ira Gluskin is still around. Can you believe it? OPM Feb 9, 2023 5 min read
TO Establishment I read Wes Hall's tale of woes If you skip this story, what does that say about you? OPM Dec 12, 2022 5 min read
Moguls Miles Nadal is now a shoe collector and capital allocator An update on Miles Nadal of Peerage Capital and Peerage Realty and previously, MDC Partners. OPM Oct 6, 2022 8 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
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
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
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
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
Moguls Vaccine tourist Rod Baker of Great Canadian Gaming fame Can he avoid the slammer? OPM May 4, 2021 1 min read