The first-ever look at one of Canada's greatest growth investors and champions of entrepreneurship. The first-eve
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English Pages [313] Year 2020
Table of contents :
Cover
Up and to the Right
Title
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
First Edition Foreword by David Johnston, Former Governor General of Canada
Preface
Photos
1 An Uncommon Man
2 A Father’s Son
3 The “Real World”
4 Triumphs and Turmoil
5 Rebirth and Renewal
6 New Blood
7 The Growth Formula
8 Case Studies: It’s All About Growth (and sometimes value ...)
9 Formula Growth Hedges Its Bets
10 Formula Growth Hedge Fund and Alpha Fund
11 A Move into Asia
12 Creating Wealth through an Exceptional Team Effort
13 A Foe of Excessive Government
14 Supporting Entrepreneurship and the Free Enterprise System
15 Looking to the Future
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Formula Growth Fund Annual Performance
Appendix 2: Long-term Formula Growth Fund Performance Chart
Appendix 3: Vintage of Formula Growth Stocks chronologically over the decades (price at least doubled)
Appendix 4: Formula Growth Current and Former Employees
Appendix 5: Sample of John Dobson Foundation Support Recipients
Appendix 6: Formula Growth 1974 Letter to Unitholders
Index