Friday May 16, 2008
Latest Columns 
With Sprott, the funds may be best bet
Online Edition: Friday, May 16, 2008 06:00 AM
You might take your cue from Eric himself
With Sprott, the funds may be best bet
Published: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:00 AM Page B11
Money managers around this country will have enjoyed a moment of catty glee yesterday when Sprott Inc. shares traded down slightly off its initial public offering.Investment types are even more envious than the rest of us when it comes to money, so you can rest assured that every one of them was bitterly aware of the amazing pay days Eric Sprott and his team enjoy. Sprott paid almost $300-million out in discretionary bonuses from 2005 to 2007, chump change by New York or London hedge fund standards, but in Canada? Please.
Cash flow: Income trusts' dirty little secret
Online Edition: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 06:00 AM
Don't count on rule makers to keep corporations honest
The dirty little secret of income trusts: cash flow
Published: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:00 AM Page B16
It's been almost a year since the bean-counting authorities in this country tried to nudge income trusts into being a little more forthright about what they call distributable cash.
Picking up on all the right Points
Online Edition: Monday, May 12, 2008 06:49 AM
Catering to business - and consumer - addiction to loyalty programs
Picking up on all the right Points
Published: Monday, May 12, 2008 12:00 AM Page B9
Consumers love their loyalty points but investors don't like Points International, or at least not as much as they used to. The stock is down more than 50 per cent from its peak.
Timminco investors deserved more
Online Edition: Thursday, May 8, 2008 06:00 AM
Recent stock sales by Safeguard should have been more clearly disclosed
Timminco investors deserved more
Published: Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:00 AM Page B17
Eric Sprott may know what he's doing but plenty of retail investors in Timminco don't have the faintest clue what they've gotten themselves into.I base this claim on a cascade of e-mails that landed in the inbox a couple of weeks ago after this space discussed how Timminco's biggest shareholder and, effectively, its CEO, sold a lot of stock at prices well below where the shares trade now.
Advertisers may prefer online value to Yellow Pages
Online Edition: Friday, May 2, 2008 06:00 AM
Customer loss may accelerate with myriad of competition alternatives
Yellow Pages looks less rosy if advertisers see better value online
Published: Friday, May 2, 2008 12:00 AM Page B12
Does anyone use the Yellow Pages any more? I just finished driving across Canada with a friend. We hardly ever used the phone book to find what we needed when we stopped. We mainly used the Internet through laptop or BlackBerry.
