Citi’s high carbs diet
It seems like more or less anything can be deemed an asset class these days.Here’s the latest one from Citigroup analysts: ‘Carbs’. No that’s not McDonalds and Coca Cola,...
Investors Poured 7x More Capital into Canadian VC Funds in Q3: Report
(Reuters) - Canadian venture capital funds raised C$365 million ($356.8 million) in the third quarter, more than seven times the C$47 million they raised in Q3 2010, according to a new report from the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA).
Fundraising for the first nine months of this year totaled C$739 million, just below the...
Tech Talk – Pipelines, Eastern Canada and Maine
I wrote last time about the projected pipelines that are being anticipated to take advantage of increased production from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, with the intent that I would use that to lead into a review of the oil sands operation itself. H...
Tech Talk – Pipelines in and from Canada
If one looks at the countries that are major importers of oil into the United States, Canada currently easily tops the list, exporting 2.085 mbd of crude (2.524 mbd of total petroleum products) for example in June. Interestingly Saudi Arabia was in se...
Tech Talk – Pipelines from the Arctic
Art Berman commented, in regard to my last post on the oil and gas reserves in offshore Alaska, that at one time companies looked for an estimated 1 billion barrels in reserves before they would consider starting down the long road to bringing them to...
Canadian Pension Funds Ride Again
North of the border, a handful of Canada’s biggest pension funds fancy themselves as investment giants -- with the whopping purses to match--that participate in corporate buyouts and gripe publicly for changes at companies in which they invest.
Have Canadian Funds Ridden RIM to the Bottom?
Some of Canada's iconic financial institutions have held on for RIM’s ups and now downs, downs, downs.
