News report: Canada’s new “Venture Catalyst Fund” invests in $46M Wattpad deal I’m so utterly confused. For years, Canadian entrepreneurs and VCs begged Ottawa to get involved in arresting the multi-year decline in our...
Timing can sometimes be everything in life, and there is little doubt that Bank of England Governor Mark Carney had the benefit of a modest economic tailwind in the United Kingdom when he took...
Back from holidays in a place where they read The New York Times each morning, and better for it. Of all the world news I read last week, the fact that Bank of England...
One could be all macho, and rely on Dan Mida’s comforting words when Tye Burt quit Nesbitt Burns in 1997 to join another dealer. Mr. Mida summed up Bay Street’s HR dynamic very well...
There was a part of me that was going to just let it pass. In the three weeks since Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney’s exit was announced, much has been written and speculated....
For the last 12 months, I’ve had the pleasure of charging over to the Business News Network’s Toronto studio at Queen & John each week to spend some time on set with Kim Parlee...
Editorial: The naively affluent I’m all for strict regulation and enforcement in our capital markets. For years, I’ve made the case that local regulators aren’t as effective as they should be. Here are a...
I have you an answer as to the CPPIB’s inflation expectation for the medium term (see prior post “Did CPPIB hit its 4.0% “real return” bogey?” May 19-12): a handy 2% per annum. That’s...
News report: Carney approached for top Bank of England job Since he once played goal for the Harvard hockey team, it seems appropriate to use a hockey analogy: there’s no way we should trade...
Everything was going along just rosy, until…. An analysis from RBC’s Europe Economic Research division this morning reminds us of the tightrope that Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is walking. Next week’s Federal budget...
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