Bay Street Buzz

This information courtesy of Bill Vlaad, of Vlaad & Co.:

“Greg Pardy has resigned from Scotia Capital and is moving to RBC Capital Markets as Co-Head of the newly formed Energy Group and will also cover large cap energy stocks.

David Rosenberg is joining Gluskin Sheff as Chief Economist and Strategist. Rosenberg was previously a Managing Director, Chief North American Economist at Banc of America in New York.

TD Securities has brought on John Moore from JP Morgan to head its U.S. Fixed Income Sales team, based in New York. Also joining but from Morgan Stanley are Jim O’Brien to head U.S. Fixed Income Trading and Bond Trader Charles Coristine.

Desjardins Securities found a new Head of its Mining team with the hiring of Paul Carmel who most recently was the President and Founder of Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec’s backed Private Equity fund MinQuest Capital.

Jamie Williams joined CIBC World Markets from HSBC Securities Canada as Head Bond Trader.

Ed Rieckelman has joined Alberta Investment Management’s (AIMCo) Private Equity group in Toronto. Ed was formerly with Oncap and True North Investors.

Rajiv Chail has left his Investment Banking Analyst seat at Research Capital to join Cormark Securities as a Mining Equity Research Associate.

BMO Capital Markets’ Metals & Mining Group recently added Yefei Pi as an Analyst. Pi was most recently part of the M&A team at Genuity Capital Markets.

Bill Vlaad, bill@vlaadco.com
647-426-3890 (Direct)”

MRM