Archive for November, 2006
Reguly tilts at the wrong windmill
30 November 2006The Globe & Mail’s star columnist on all things business and Torstar, Eric Reguly, turned his sights onto Canada’s wind power industry earlier today. And concluded in a few dozen words that the death of water-based turbine projects was somehow a harbinger of bad tidings for the entire Ontario wind power industry.
Mr. Reguly is [...]
Top 6 Reasons for Considering a Venture Debt Financing
30 November 2006As I’ve begun a new career in the last 6 months, making a move from Commercial Banking to the land of Venture Debt, many people not familiar with Venture Debt are asking me “what is Venture Debt anyway”? Instead of telling people what Venture Debt is, I typically describe situations or profiles of companies who [...]
Sen. Segal on the Nation Issue
29 November 2006Here is a fantastic op-ed piece written by Wellington Financial advisory council member Senator Hugh Segal, in case you missed it. Although the Senator and I may not agree on this topic, it is the best op-ed piece he’s ever written…and that is saying a lot:
“We’re still cleaning up Lord Durham’s mess
29 November [...]
Financing growing purchase price multiples
29 November 2006I met with a former colleague recently who works for one of the Canadian Chartered Banks. Our discussion revolved around the current market for non public companies and what was being paid for same. He had a client that was recently purchased for in excess of 8 times trailing cashflow. Now while [...]
One of the best biz plans ever
29 November 2006I may not be the only one to have received this B.C.-generated blast email, but as business plans go, it must rank up there for its forecast internal rate of return:
“Yucatan Sun Organic Farms, Inc. (USA) has acquired 11,000 acres of Organic Land strategically located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico for year-round production and [...]