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
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107 postsHow 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.
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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
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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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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
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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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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.
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The rise of Anson Funds and Moez Kassam
Anson Funds and its founder Moez Kassam have emerged as players on Bay Street.
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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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Burgundy Asset Management's origin myth
If status isn't the most important thing, then why is Richard Rooney - a man
with $13 million
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Burgundy Asset Management downgraded to low-status
What's the most important thing in life? Give yourself full marks if you said
"status". This
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