Third Eye Capital
Tel: (416) 601-2270
Fax: (416) 981-3393
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Brookfield Place
Bay Wellington Tower
181 Bay Street, Suite 2830
Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2T3
“Zombie companies”, a term we first coined at an investment conference in Toronto in October 2008, are companies unable to cover debt servicing costs from earnings and have assets with realizable values less than their debts outstanding but remain in the market rather than exiting...
The sharp rise in interest rates since the start of the year has meant that all holders of fixed-rate securities, including banks, have had to write down these assets in their portfolios. The large magnitude of the write downs by banks has been exacerbated by...
Inflation is hitting peaks across the globe not witnessed in decades. The reasons for this are now well publicized: governments ran enormous deficits during the pandemic and wrote cheques to individuals and companies, which in turn fueled demand for goods and services; the monetary base...
Fighting in Ukraine is ongoing and increasing the chances that Europe will ratchet up energy-related sanctions and likely sustain higher oil prices. Russia is the world’s third largest oil producer and the second largest crude oil exporter. Russia stopped reporting production data after official sanctions...
Investor excitement for innovation companies is justified by recent technological advances and the widespread adoption of trends in ecommerce, cloud computing, web 3.0, and AI. ARK Investment Management (ARK), which claims to focus solely on offering investment solutions to capture disruptive innovation in public...
When the price of money is zero, the value of everything is infinite. The zero interest rate experiment led by the U.S. Federal Reserve (U.S. Fed) in response to the global pandemic created investor fairy tales that “stonks” only go up, virtual coins are money,...
Favorable funding conditions and a strengthening economy have allowed riskier borrowers to avert serious default by extending near term maturities and lowering borrowing costs. In the first quarter of 2021, issuers rated B- in the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Index were able raise US$54.6 Billion to...
“It is really quite amazing how time horizons and money goals can change when there are stocks around that are going up 100 percent in six months.” – Adam Smith, 1967 It has been a wild time for markets. In 2020, stock markets around the world...
The number of companies in Canada that have entered formal restructurings and owe their creditors in excess of $5 Million is up over 130% in the last twelve months, according to the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy. Approximately 40% of these companies filed for...
Monetary and fiscal policy coordination has been the most prominent driver of risk-asset performance in the second quarter of this year. This highly supportive backstop to markets will likely continue to push prices up even higher. Investor sentiment has stunningly moved from apocalyptic to euphoric...
