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Balsillie to take helm as Wellington Financial’s Chairman

It has been a few months since I broke any news (see prior post “$100M+ acquisition of Dayforce in the works” Dec 19-11), so I thought I would give our loyal blog readers a jump on a release that won’t...

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Wellington Financial Announces 2nd Closing for Fund IV

I thought our modest but loyal blog readership should be the first to know. We held our 2nd closing for Wellington Financial Fund IV on December 31st. We added two new LPs: a Canadian pension plan and...

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Debt fund returns match up well versus equities

With our firm’s 2013 annual meeting just around the corner, I thought I’d look at some of the debt fund net returns that pension plans across North American have been receiving of late. The data the...

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Wellington Financial Fund V is now the largest technology-focused fund in Canada

More news on the state of our Fund V fundraise: Wellington Financial Hits ‘Hard Cap’ On New $300 Million Fund V Wellington Financial LP, a privately held specialty finance firm providing growth capital...

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Charging into 2016 with vim and vigour

I’m not sure exactly when the blogging started to tail off…. The peak for posting was 2007, when our team hit an average of almost two posts a day; that was a particularly “exciting” year on the macro...

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Media confuse “construction cost” with “taxpayer cost” on Gordie Howe project

The fallout continues in the wake of the Federal government’s decision to release, without context, a Prime Ministerial briefing note regarding the Gordie Howe International Bridge project (see prior...

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Bloomberg: Real Matters Deal Said to Set Stage for Canada’s Next Tech IPO

In case you didn’t see today’s article from Bloomberg News about our Wellington Financial Fund III portfolio co. Real Matters, I thought I’d take the liberty of posting it here. Our firm had the...

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The Power of Data in Non-profit Performance

  People are incented to donate to non-profit organizations by the opportunity to affect positive change in society. But how do they decide where to donate? How can they be sure their donation will...

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How Disintermediation is Revolutionizing the US$5 Billion Appraisal Industry

“Disruption” is one of those words that gets people buzzing at venture firms in and around our Silicon Valley office, and elsewhere. Players in the VC landscape gravitate toward technology that pushes...

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No Longer Business as Usual in “The Age of the Customer”

The business world has entered what Forrester Research has coined as “The Age of the Customer”. The proliferation of multiple digital media tools, along with an increasing number of communication...

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