When the facts change, we change our minds The nature of most human activity is that the facts involved tend to change, but often not as abruptly, and rarely on such a wide scale as […]
How the portfolio is positioned to capture potential gains We believe the world will be a very different place on the other side of the global health crisis and associated financial crisis. We know that […]
Assessing the trinity of risk is a key pillar of Pender’s investment strategy at all times, but during a financial crisis, when the risks increase, it becomes more crucial than ever to double and triple […]
Investors had largely ignored COVID-19 for over a month, but now emotions have started to get the better of cooler heads, and markets have reacted. Extreme fear has taken over. Unfortunately, emotional trading can quickly […]
Day 1 – Margin of Safety Benjamin Graham, believed by many to be the father of value investing, wrote in his book The Intelligent Investor, “Confronted with [the] challenge to distill the secret of sound […]
Business Best Practices Gina Jones – Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Laurence Gonzales Felix Narhi – A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Tren Griffin Kenndal McArdle – Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook […]
We have talked before, at a very high level, about what quantum computing is, how it works and why we might need it. In short, quantum computers are going to succeed where even the most […]
Extract from Deloitte Insights: Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Predictions 2019 and reproduced with the permission of Duncan Stewart, Director of Research and Erica Pretorius, Partner, Risk Advisory, Deloitte Canada. Classical computer: The traditional form of […]
Members of the Pender team attended CFA Society Vancouver’s event: Challenges, Opportunities and Insights on Public and Private Equity, on October 3, 2019, moderated by our own Amar Pandya, CFA. Amar was joined by panelists […]
Dave Barr and I attended the MOI Global Latticework New York 2019 event on September 12, 2019. MOI Global, which was founded by John Mihaljevic the author of The Manual of Ideas (see our book […]
Our investment in Transat A.T. represents a successful catalyst-driven close the discount (CTD) investment. As Canada’s third largest airline and one of the largest tourism companies in the world, Transat has had a long and […]
The PenderFund Investment Team shares the books on their summer reading list. David Barr Thinking in Systems: A Primer, Donella Meadows and Diana Wright (Editor) I picked up “Thinking in Systems” after it was shared […]
To mark 10 years since the launch of our mutual funds, Pender took its annual Investment Conference to a new level, with additional due diligence sessions and a keynote speaker. Culture First, everything else later […]
While quantum computing sounds like the kind of technology that has travelled back in time from the future, believe it or not, the concept was first proposed in 1981 by Richard Feynman (who was awarded […]
“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” – Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway On May 4, 2019, members of the Pender Investment Team joined the thousands of […]
In extraordinary times, when markets are stressed the broad opportunity set widens. But from a psychological perspective, it sure doesn’t feel like an opportunity.“The tide goes out” in periods like the financial crisis of 2008-2009 […]
In normal times, when markets are relatively tranquil the opportunity set is narrow. Armies of smart analysts and investors do their research and stocks are priced much more efficiently than less followed stocks. It’s challenging […]
Why the next big tech name could come from the healthcare sector Important Information: Pender Technology Inflection Fund I Limited Partnership managed by PenderFund Capital Management Ltd. (“Pender”) holds an investment in Clarius Mobile Health, […]
We have often talked about catalyst-driven investing, specifically in our blog post on Catalysts: Investing in “take-outs”. Another of the catalysts that can motivate a company to sell itself is prolonged stock price underperformance despite […]
Webinar The Pender Small Cap Opportunities Fund has been reopened. Classes B and G are now available to all investors for a limited time. So why is it a good time to reopen the Fund? […]
The PenderFund Investment Team shares what is on their holiday reading list this season. David Barr I’m looking forward to reading three books this holiday season. Two relate to decision making, while the third has […]
