News report: Rubicon Minerals Corp shares plunge as miner slashes its gold resources by 88% One of the rules one must have is to never be critical of another industry player when one of...
News report: HarbourVest to Buy Welsh Carson, PAI Stakes From CPPIB No sooner had we put on our blogging shoes and brought you some exclusive return data from CPP Investment Board (see prior post...
It has been awhile since I took the time to check out our CPP PE returns, and I’m sorry to report that they aren’t much better than last Spring. Of the 54 Private Equity...
No sooner had I posited that BlackBerry shareholders shouldn’t bet on a “quick” auction (see prior post “BlackBerry: don’t bet on a frothy, ‘quick auction’” Sept. 5-13), The Sunday Times came out and said...
I love baseball metaphors. All metaphors, actually. But they have to be suitable and well delivered to avoid mockery by the recipient. So, when CPP Investment Board CEO Mark Wiseman told the Globe and...
Thanks to the efforts of Bloomberg, Canadians have learned that our Canada Pension Plan is open to taking Blackberry (BB:TSX) private — likely with the support of its PE partner Silver Lake, should this...
Dateline: Banff, Alberta The Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association’s annual conference is always ripe for new material, and this year was no different. Fortunately, the conference keynote speaker was none other than...
As I begin to dig into the 2013 CPP Investment Board annual report, I keep coming across evidence that our team’s active investment management strategy has yet to bear fruit. Yesterday I advised that...
My pals the Canada’s National Newspaper, the Globe and Mail, had a couple of hours over lunch recently with the Head of our Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The ultimate report had plenty of...
The marginalization of the Canadian Venture Capital landscape continues, unabated. The latest evidence of the industry’s multi-year decline came in the form of CPP Investment Board’s decision to spin out all of their direct...
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