Ira Gluskin is still around, believe it or not
It’s 2023 and Ira Gluskin is still around. Can you believe it?
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Moguls
27 postsMiles Nadal is now a shoe collector and capital allocator
An update on Miles Nadal of Peerage Capital and Peerage Realty and previously, MDC Partners.
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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.
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Stephen Smith of First National: from bankrupt at 34 to billionaire
How Stephen Smith built a financial services conglomerate from the ashes of ruin.
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I am outing two mortgage billionaires: Stephen Smith and Moray Tawse of First National
Canada's first fintech billionaires - thirty years in the making.
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The Westons are flush with billions to deploy
Wittington has a new President, Cornell Wright, who will get to deploy billions this year.
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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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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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Hedge fund manager Shawn Kimel donates $21m to Mount Sinai Hospital
Arbitrageur Shawn Kimel, founder of hedge fund K2 and his partner Kate Schatzky
have gifted $21m to Sinai Health, aka
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GameStop: Two Montrealers among biggest winners: Richard Mashaal of Senvest and Ryan Cohen
My sister publication, The Wall Street Journal, has reported on a $700m gain on
GameStop, now fully realized, by a
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