News report: Private Debt Steps In for Canadian Companies as Banks Pull Back As Bloomberg headlines go, this one is pretty exciting to a private debt fund. Banks pulling back, despite pressure from government, SME interest...
Pitchbook has just reported that the U.S. I.P.O. window is wide open, but Canadian investors shouldn’t expect any spillover for the foreseeable future. Not that there aren’t companies to take public; it’s that the demand...
News item: Proposed $4B Gordie Howe International Bridge “is an extremely complicated project” I’m not sure that counts as news per se, but it does open up a topic that’s overdue for discussion. I...
Just as one starts to feel good about the state of the Canadian venture capital ecosystem (see prior post “Flaherty’s VCAP doing its thing with new IVP and iNovia fund announcements” Jan. 27-16), you...
It has been nine months since Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that Ontario taxpayers were committing $25 million to a new $50 million venture capital fund that will provide not just capital, but mentorship...
It has been more than seven years, and the strategy of the Decade of Daddy Mirror Fund has served us very well (see prior post “Decade of Daddy Mirror Fund Q4 Report” Jan. 16-14)....
It is so easy to fret about the Canadian economy. Lacklustre job growth, Ontario’s oppressive government debt, regular plant closings…. And yet, when one looks at the balance sheets of Canadian banks, businesses are...
There were plenty of casualties in the recent Provincial election; some deserved and some not. This post tries to give you some background on one of them. It has been about two months since...
It was only last week that I was chiding a couple of the venture debt players for completely dropping their covenants to win the odd deal here and there (see prior post ““No MAC,...
You might have read somewhere that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is a fan of the province’s innovation economy. Strangely, she doesn’t seem to appreciate the damage she will do to that very same sector...
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