Discover Canadian pre-seed venture capital firms. This list is sorted by funding amount and highlights VCs investing in early-stage startups.
Tag: Finance
Why Lululemon (LULU) is not a long-term buy for value investors: lacks competitive moat, market saturation, better suited for short-term trading.
Why DigitalOcean (DOCN) is not a buy for value investors: lacks competitive advantages in a crowded market, better for diversification.
Tutorial for Canadians: withdraw USD from Deel to Wise without US bank details, using Wise UK GBP account for transfers.
Guide to banking in Canada: budgeting, choosing accounts (Wealthsimple, KOHO, credit unions), credit cards, and cash withdrawal options.
Literary analysis and summary of Michael Lewis’s ‘Flash Boys,’ exploring high-frequency trading (HFT), its impact on markets, and ethical implications.
Detailed analysis of Daniel Kahneman’s ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow,’ exploring System 1 & 2, cognitive biases, and heuristics.
Notes from a talk on improving payment systems using AI and Quantum Computing, covering anomaly detection, ML frameworks, and quantum transaction ordering.
Notes from a university course on Fixed Income, covering market environment, instruments, valuation, and case studies like the SVB failure.
Notes from a university course on Behavioural Finance, covering Expected Utility Theory, Prospect Theory, cognitive and emotional biases, risk tolerance, and corporate governance.
Notes from a university course on Financial Markets and Securities Trading, covering market structure, HFT, PFOF, dark pools, and case studies.
Valuation of Lithium Americas (LAC) based on EMH and a dividend discount model, analyzing Thacker Pass project and providing investment recommendation.
Explaining various depreciation methods (Straight Line, Double Declining Balance, Units Used, Sum of the Years’ Digits) and touching on Canada’s Capital Cost of Allowance and deferred taxes.
This Excel tutorial demonstrates how to use the FILTER formula to extract data from a table while excluding headers. This formulas also filters based on a condition (e.g., non-blank status).
Argues that retail investors are often misguided by market sentiment and lack knowledge, leading to poor investment decisions in ‘herd’ and temporary high-growth stocks. Uses case studies to illustrate pitfalls and advises against hype-based investing.
experiments we can do regarding active management
Critiques the CAPM for calculating cost of equity, arguing its assumptions are flawed and suggesting using an investor’s required rate of return instead, emphasizing insight over IQ in investing.
Detailed notes and summaries from a university course on Options, Futures & Swaps, covering derivative types, market mechanics, hedging, interest rates, pricing, swaps, securitization, financial crises, and volatility.
A finance knowledge database defining terms related to lending and M&A from a private debt internship, including loan types, financial ratios, agreements, and key concepts.
Comprehensive notes for BU 473 Investment Management, covering asset classes, trading, risk and return, CAPM, APT, bonds, interest rates, financial analysis, options, and futures.
An analysis of the USDC de-pegging event in March 2023, arguing that the drop below 1:1 USD was primarily due to panic selling rather than fundamental risk, and discussing the author’s perspective on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
A guide for Canadians on investing in the stock market with an emphasis on risk and safety. Answers: What is a brokerage? What is are registered accounts like TFSA, RRSP, FHSA, RESP, and how to reduce taxes? What are stocks and how should you invest?