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Who's Who in Canadian Business, now in its 21st year, is a comprehensive and independent guide to Canada's business elite. Listing over 5,000 corporate and entrepreneurial leaders, each with a detailed biography and contact information, this directory is an excellent resource for anyone needing information on Canada's business world. Biographies include such information as current employment, address, education, career history, publications, favourite charities, and honours. Those listed are included because of the positions they hold in Canadian business and industry, or because of the contributions they have made to business in Canada. The directory is updated annually; new and updated biographies are marked for easy reference. All biographies are indexed by company name. Included in this edition is the PROFIT 100 / Next 100 listing of Canada's fastest-growing companies, as well as a list of professional associations, each with full address, contact names, and a brief description.
The investment and securities industry is rebounding from the dismal markets of the early 2000s. Improved corporate profits, low interest rates and efforts to improve corporate governance have led the way, despite recent scandals in the mutual funds industry. Meanwhile, the investment industry is increasingly a global business. This is partly due to the needs of multinational corporations to list their stocks or issue debt in more than one nation. For example, ADRs (American Depository Receipts) are increasingly popular instruments. Cross-border investments and acquisitions continue at a rapid pace. Discount brokerages are enjoying improved levels of trading, while investment banks are devel...
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After 32 years, Montreal will soon lose its professional baseball team. The former president of the Expos explains how the team went from being one of major league baseball's most promising franchises to becoming a financial pariah, barely escaping extinction at the end of the 2001 season and now facing demise in 2002. This history of the team's troubled existence covers years of gradually declining revenue and attendance, the sale of the team to a consortium of business leaders in 1991, and the league's ongoing debate over eliminating the Expos once and for all.
The story of a friendship that started in law school and ended with the largest insider trading scandal in Canadian history, this eye-opening chronicle reveals for the first time how Gil Cornblum and Stan Grmovsek worked together to rip off Wall Street and Bay Streetthe Canadian Wall Street equivalentfor over $10 million. Cornblum would scout around his law offices in the middle of the night, looking for confidential information on mergers or takeovers. When he found something, he would tip off Grmovsek, who would make the stock market trades that would gain them illegal profits. From the joint internal investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Integrated Market Enforcement Team to Cornblums resultant suicide and Grmovseks 39-month prison sentence, Tip and Trade covers the discovery of the double lives of the twosome and their inevitable downfall. First-person interviews, conducted with Grmovsek from prison, give insight into what case prosecutors called a classic Hollywood insider trading history.
The distinction between out-performance of an Investment fund or plan manager vs rewards for taking risks is at the heart of all discussions on Investment fund performance measurement of fund managers. This issue is not always well-understood and the notion of risk adjusting performance is not universally accepted. Performance Measurement in Finance addresses this central issue. The topics covered include evaluation of investment fund management, evaluation of the investment fund itself, and stock selection performance. The book also surveys and critiques existing methodologies of performance measurement and covers new innovative approaches to performance measurement. The contributors to the...
A key reference tool for the banking and lending industry, including trends and market research. Provides industry analysis, statistical tables, an industry glossary, industry contacts, thorough indexes and in-depth profiles of over 300 leading companies in the industry. Includes CD-ROM.
A key reference tool covering the investment and asset management industry, including trends and market research. Provides industry analysis, statistical tables, an industry glossary, industry contacts, thorough indexes and in-depth profiles of over 300 leading companies in the industry. Includes CD-ROM.
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