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 […]
Forward Thinking. Finding Value.
“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 […]
Download PDF We take a private equity approach to public markets We research potential holdings as if we were buying an ownership stake in the business, not just the stock. We take a deep look […]
There are two different scenarios that we consider when we try to mitigate the effects of risk in the Pender Corporate Bond Fund. The two chief risks in the bond market – credit risk and […]
If you attended the CFA Society Vancouver 50th Anniversary Dinner in November 2015, you had the privilege of hearing from keynote speaker, financial journalist and New York Times best-selling author, Michael Lewis. Your second abiding […]
During the week of October 4, 2016, Sandridge Energy emerged from its re-organization and the positions in both the Pender Corporate Bond Fund and the Pender Value Fund were converted to new Sandridge common equity […]
Pender’s Investment Team and other colleagues supported the Down Syndrome Research Foundation at their annual Up the Down Market “stimulated stock market” dinner in Vancouver. The event raised its target of at least $25,000 to […]
Almost all investments come with an element of risk but does this risk contribute to your return? Sharpe ratio is one of the calculations available to investors to assess returns on a risk-adjusted basis – […]
Beta is a measure that investors can use when assessing a potential investment for volatility. Beta measures correlation to the market (or a benchmark) and how susceptible a stock or fund is to the fluctuations […]
Alpha is the measure of a fund’s actual performance above its anticipated performance, as predicted by beta. Take the fund’s performance against its benchmark on a risk-adjusted basis to ascertain the excess. This relative outperformance […]
At Pender, we consider ourselves owners of a business, not just its stock, which means that when we think about risk we believe that real investment risk is not measured by fluctuations in a stock’s […]
“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.” Fred DeVito In August David Barr, Pender’s President and CEO, completed the Haute Route. A seven day cycling race through the French Pyrenees from the west […]
“I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.” Muhammad Ali In less than a week Dave Barr will set out to achieve his latest goal. To participate in the challenging Haute […]
Paraphrasing Charlie Munger, as investors, all we want to know is where we are going to die, so we won’t go there. Common sense dictates that investors should avoid overcrowded trades in companies with lots […]
At Pender we practice active management and are fundamental value investors who base our investment process on taking advantage of market inefficiencies, such as when a company becomes significantly mispriced in comparison to what the […]
