Archive for April 4th, 2008
Teachers has $12.7B deficit. Good deal for taxpayers. Huh?
4 April 2008Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) announced their 2007 results this week. The fund returned 4.5% which is good news given the headwinds across almost any asset class and was over 200bps above its composite benchmark. That makes our household (being married to a teacher whose parents are both teachers) happy.
The headlines, though, focus on the [...]
It’s the push that counts
4 April 2008Lots of excitement at RIMM this week. Subs are up, Blackberries (ys?) are flying off the shelf.
And a million people downloaded their Facebook app:
“When we launched Facebook for BlackBerry Smartphones, we believed that consumers would recognize the value of marrying social networking with mobility and that vision has now been validated more than a million [...]
VC Confidential
4 April 2008The London, Ontario, Tech Alliance group is hosting a panel discussion about how venture capital, debt and capital market investors really work. The process can certainly be daunting for many executives so here is the opportunity to meet and listen to a talented group of such financiers. The panel includes Anders McKenzie of Deloitte, Mark [...]