There is no longer an “easy button” in fixed income whereby investors can earn relatively high real returns from invested instruments guaranteed by the government. While most investors still construct their portfolio with a mix […]
Forward Thinking. Finding Value.
Building a business is hard. This is the reality for many CEOs. Just look at some of the most successful companies today. Facebook was confronted with questions on its ability to monetize its network post […]
Medicure Inc (MPH), a company that we have held across multiple funds for over two years, is a specialty pharma company focused on cardiovascular solutions based in Winnipeg, MB. Medicure is “our kind of bio-tech […]
Pender Book Review: The Manual of Ideas: The Proven Framework for Finding the Best Value Investments
I read The Manual of Ideas a few years ago, but gave myself a refresher over the summer. I am currently at Latticework, an event put on by The Manual of Ideas community, where leading […]
A first for Pender as a company held in both our Equity and Fixed Income portfolios gets taken out. Demand-side energy management firm, EnerNOC, has announced it is being acquired by Enel Group, a European […]
Summertime is a slower time of year for travel for us. Fewer companies to see, conferences to attend or clients to meet with. This gives us the opportunity to use this time to dive deeper into […]
Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFM) is the second announced takeout of a top five Pender Value Fund holding last quarter (following the Panera deal – see our blog post). WFM is also a holding in the […]
As someone who loves to read, choosing the next book is always exciting. Since there are more books on my reading list than I’ll ever be able to read, I use two criteria to guide […]
We’ve been asked a lot over the past week about whether or not we have exposure to certain headline housing stocks in our equity portfolios. Fortunately, the answer is no. We think this is a […]
As we reflect on the announcement that Panera Bread, a holding in several of Pender’s funds, is about to go private thanks to a takeover by European holding company JAB, we are left feeling somewhat […]
I recently read The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis. When Lewis presented at the CFA Society Vancouver 50th Anniversary Dinner in November 2015, he mentioned that he was working […]
Congratulations to the Pender Investment Team and Portfolio Managers David Barr and Felix Narhi. Fundata Canada Inc has awarded two of Pender’s funds a FundGrade A+ Award for 2016. The awards were presented in Toronto […]
Stocks rarely perform in the time frames we predict, which is why the market works best for investors who have a long-term portfolio focus. Volatility in short-term returns, especially with the relatively concentrated strategies we […]
At the time of writing, David Barr’s track record for picking small cap take-out1 targets stands at 40 portfolio holdings taken out since the Pender Small Cap Opportunities Fund was launched (June 2009). In just […]
“Warren Buffett credits many of his great money decisions to his voracious reading habit. He … estimates he spends as much as 80 percent of his day reading.” He says, “Read 500 pages … every […]
