Podcasts

A Market Isn’t Always Just One Thing Forever In this episode, Laura Baker, Associate Portfolio Manager at Pender, sits down with Lead Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income Geoff Castle, Portfolio Manager Emily Wheeler and Associate Portfolio Manager Parul Garg to discuss the recent recognition of two of Pender’s fixed income funds with 2025 LSEG Lipper Fund […]

Isaac Souweine hosts Brice Scheschuk, Managing Partner at Globalive Capital. Brice is an active private technology investor in Canada with firsthand founder experience as the co-founder of Wind Mobile (now Freedom Mobile) in 2008. In this podcast he talks to Isaac about his “play your own game” framework, a thought exercise for founders that shifts […]

GenAI, machine learning, cloud computing and chips galore. Where business leaders are investing. Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures hosts Duncan Stewart, director of TMT Research, Deloitte Canada for a second time. Duncan is a globally recognized expert on the forecasting of consumer and enterprise technology, media and telecommunication trends and is co-author of […]

Market cycles, manias, and opportunities. Geoff and Callum revisit the big themes in 2024 and tally which of their 2023 calls went right. They look ahead to 2025 and beyond and discuss the current market cycle, and where opportunities are in Treasuries, commodities and the commercialization of space. A must-listen for professional and regular investors […]

From the wild west of user generated content to a global entertainment company. “I would absolutely attribute some of our successes to like building this company in Canada and not anywhere else.” On this episode in the Pender Ventures series on great Canadian technology companies, Maria Pacella, Managing Partner, hosts Co-Founder and Operating Partner of Two Small Fish Ventures, Allen Lau. In 2006, Allen co-founded Wattpad, a technology […]

The importance of innovation, adaptability and resilience. This is the first in a new Pender Ventures podcast series reflecting the scale-up stories of some of the great Canadian technology companies. We kick off with the story of PMC-Sierra, a pioneering and leading semiconductor chipset supplier that specialized in the design and development of integrated circuits […]

Parul Garg, Pender’s distressed credit expert in default securities, reorganizations and recapitalizations, discusses the impending catalysts for generating meaningful alpha in distressed debt in the next 3-to-5 years, and how a public credit strategy complements investing in private credits. She explains the various approaches to creating value and managing risk in both the Pender Credit […]

A unique value proposition – what we do and what we don’t do. In this discussion, Parul Garg sheds light on the risk and rewards of investing in stressed and distressed credits in public markets and how the portfolio management team leverages a nimble approach to capitalize on unique opportunities often overlooked by larger funds. […]

Expertise and experience, transparency and liquidity. In this episode, we delve into the complex world of public stressed and distressed credit investing. Join Parul Garg for a discussion on investing in stressed and distressed credits in public markets, as held in the Pender Credit Opportunities Fund and in the Pender Corporate Bond Fund. Parul provides […]