All is not dire in sunny California
Dateline: Menlo Park “The whole tech sector, flush for years with confidence and talk of disruption, suddenly has an air of desperation about it.” Time Magazine, Nov. 12/15 Is that a cliff, just ahead?...
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CPP Investment Board lenders learn painful lesson as Rubicon Minerals "melts down"
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...
When you have the chance in life, get the best
It attracted a great deal of local attention, but you might have missed that the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority announced on Friday that four respected Canadian financial executives have agreed to serve as members of...
Wynne's pension plan would evicerate government's venture initiatives
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...
CPPIB's 2010 results put pension fund in bottom decile
News item: “CPPIB posts strong rebound” I know that I take my life into my hands every time I dare write about the topic of the CPP Investment Board, but the stark difference in...
DAVE sitting pretty now that CRTC is on the case
It must be great to be John I. Bitove, one of Canada’s best entrepreneurs. He gets to open up the newspaper today, read about the challenges at Globalive, and wait for the phone to...
PE consumed 61% of CPPIB quarterly payroll contributions in Q4
Our nation’s pension plan, the CPP Investment Board, has assets of $105 billion (3/09), and brought in about $6.6 billion of new contributions during the prior fiscal year according to a press release of...
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