As head of the massive Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Mark Wiseman is having to take bigger bets and bigger risks to ensure the pension fund keeps growing
Tag Archives: Warren Buffett
Buffett offers $1 billion for March Madness prediction
‘Fire up the flux capacitor!’ The odds of winning are 9.2 quintillion to 1.
Heinz: spilling blood and ketchup
Barbara Amiel on the losses of Leamington Ont.
Warren Buffett: U.S. Federal Reserve is the ‘biggest hedge fund in history’
Our favourite econ quote of the month
Tab for lunch: $1,000,100
OMAHA, Neb. – The annual charity auction of a private lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett went for just more than $1 million Friday night — a bargain price compared to past years for an opportunity to sit down with one of the world’s most successful philanthropists.
Lessons from billionaires on the right way to give away money
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge goes global
Warren Buffet has prostate cancer
Warren Buffett, the billionaire CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and an outspoken advocate of raising taxes on America’s wealthy, revealed in a letter to shareholders on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. Here’s what he wrote:
Jim Pattison, the Warren Buffett of B.C.
The octogenarian billionaire is still growing his Vancouver-based empire. His latest move takes him back to the business that started it all: selling cars.
Warren Buffett reveals tax bill
Billionaire’s federal tax rate works out to 17.4 per cent
The prosperity gap
Alex Himelfarb considers the ramifications of inequality.