Interesting article about the R&D Tax Credits: Open Text Corp. chairman Tom Jenkins, who spent the past year investigating Canada’s R&D spending, said he was stunned at how little effort is spent figuring out what …
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October 17, 2011
Say what you like about the Occupy Wall Street crowd, there can be no doubt about their realism and effectiveness: About 1,000 people gathered in the heart of Toronto’s financial district beginning at 10 a.m. …
October 14, 2011
DBRS has released its 11Q3 Review of the SplitShares Market. The Europeans may be facing reality: European officials are considering writedowns of as much as 50 percent on Greek bonds, a backstop for banks and …
October 13, 2011
Back in 2005-07, Wall Street’s biggest problem was they just couldn’t write enough mortgages. Times have changed, and now their biggest problem is they can’t write enough mortgages (emphasis added): Wall Street firms are in …
October 12, 2011
The Kansas City Fed has released the Fall, 2011 edition of TEN Magazine, with an interesting article on farmland prices: As crop prices pushed toward record highs in 2011, farmland values have followed. After slowing …
October 11, 2011
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Buried treasure!: If you’re looking for a safe place to put your investments, Chad Venzke has a suggestion: Dig a hole in the ground four feet deep, pack gold …
October 7, 2011
Even the Occupy Wall Street clowns will admit some benefit from business and globalization: Liberatos Pizza, a few blocks south, has been taking orders from supporters around the world to have its $15 “OccuPie” delivered …
October 6, 2011
More worries! Canadian pension funds saw their funding problems grow dramatically in the third quarter as bond yields tumbled while stock markets went into decline. Pension consulting firm Mercer said its pension health index slipped …
October 5, 2011
Either nothing happened today, or I was busy. One or the other. Well, I noticed one thing: The University of Toronto is the lone Canadian school to crack the top 20 in the Times Higher …
Who's Selling All the SLF Preferreds?
I got a call today from an investor concerned about the recent performance of the SLF preferreds. This poor performance is well illustrated by the following three graphs, which plot Current Yield against Annual Dividend. …