Pender’s Summer Hot List – 2024 July 4th, 2024 Written by PenderFund The Pender guide to what we think are the best books blogs, and podcasts to enjoy this summer is back! From business memoirs, […]

Looking for some inspired reading this long weekend? Explore our Spring Reading List, curated by the incredible women at Pender.

Pender’s 12 Days of Holiday Reading & Listening – 2023 December 1st, 2023 Written by PenderFund PenderFund’s 12 Days of Holiday Reading and Listening is here! This year, the Pender Investment Team reflects on the […]

PenderFund’s Summer Hot List 2023 When former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers recently said, “it’s very, very hot”, was he referring to the US economy or Pender’s Summer Hot List? Maybe both! Our ever-popular bi-annual […]

Welcome to the 12 Days of Holiday Reading and Listening, Pender’s recommended resource list for the holidays. From economics, neuroscience to history, our portfolio managers recommend books, podcasts, and tv shows that helped them build […]

Pender’s ever-popular summer hot list is back! It’s packed with big ideas to challenge and inspire you on a range of topics

Welcome to the 12 Days of Holiday Reading, Pender’s recommended book list for the holidays. A new book will be revealed each day from December 7 to December 18, 2021. Check in with us each […]

The Pender Investment Team shares what’s on their summer reading list for 2021. Topics include Gene Editing, Global Themes, Investing, Mental Models, Small Business Mindset & Special Situations.

Investing Philosophy, Process & Best Practice Geoff Castle – The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, by Stephanie Kelton Emily Wheeler – Principles For Navigating Big Debt Crises, by […]

Building a Business Felix Narhi – The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time, Jim McKelvey Tony Rautava – The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There […]

Business Best Practices Gina Jones – Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, Laurence Gonzales Felix Narhi – A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, Tren Griffin Kenndal McArdle – Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook […]

At Pender, we see three sources of potential competitive advantage for investors today, analytical, behavioural and organisational, or cultural. In our day to day, we spend a large percentage of our research time trying to […]

Building a business is hard. This is the reality for many CEOs including Shoe Dog author Phil Knight. Just look at some of the most successful companies today. Facebook was confronted with questions on its […]

Summertime is a slower time of year for travel for us. Fewer companies to see, conferences to attend or clients to meet with. This gives us the opportunity to use this time to dive deeper […]

As someone who loves to read, choosing the next book is always exciting. Since there are more books on my reading list than I’ll ever be able to read, I use two criteria to guide […]

I recently read The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis. When Lewis presented at the CFA Society Vancouver 50th Anniversary Dinner in November 2015, he mentioned that he was working […]