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  November 18, 2019 - Despite heavy investor demand, a Canadian IPO was recently scrapped due to a private equity firm impeding the process and acquiring the company at a substantial premium prior to its public market debut. (more…)

  October 9, 2019 — The age-old adage “the trend is your friend until it ends” is an appropriate description of the market action that prevailed over the past few months. (more…)

    October 2, 2019 - Paul Tudor Jones was one of the greatest hedge fund managers of his generation. (more…)

  September 19, 2019 - The world’s vast oceans provide people with endless potential pursuits, whether it be surfing, swimming, body-boarding, scuba diving or snorkeling. Yet with these activities, people need to be mindful as potential life-threatening danger can lurk beneath the surface. (more…)

September 10, 2019 - The unstoppable force paradox, a quintessential contradiction originating from the 3rd century BC, posits “What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?”  (more…)

    August 30, 2019 - They say that bigger is better. In most instances, this age-old adage seems to hold up. (more…)

    August 21, 2019 - “The Yield Curve Inverted, Run For Your Lives!” the headline read. “World Expected to End as Yield Curve Inverts” read another. (more…)

    August 13, 2019 - I launched my first hedge fund in January 2012. I was 28 years old. Prior to that, I had co-managed a systematic market neutral hedge fund for a few years. (more…)

    August 9, 2019 - In a month with relatively pedestrian returns for U.S. and Canadian equity markets, up 1.4% and 0.3% respectively, the multi-factor portfolios downright kicked ass in the month of July with an 8.5% gain (long minus short) in Canada and…

    August 2, 2019—Arbitrage is defined as the simultaneous buying and selling of an asset, such as a product or a stock, in different markets or in different forms to capitalize on the difference, or “spread” between the price one can buy and the…