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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110 postsI 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 Ninepoint Third Eye Capital fund: initiating with a rating of PoS
The Ninepoint Third Eye Capital fund has more red flags than a Chinese Communist Party banquet.
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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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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.
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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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