By Heather Douglas “I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.” Warren Buffet, (1930 –), quoted in Business Insider (August 31, 2014); American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Investors want to buy shares, at a reasonable price, in an easily-understandable…
By Scott Jeffrey, Publisher The Global Petroleum Show wrapped up on June 15, and we need no further evidence that the industry is not back from its glory days. Less than 600 exhibitors were signed up for the three day event, about 1/3 of record numbers when the show was held every two years. As…
By Ali A. Zaidi Senior Advisor, Morrison & Foerster From the surrounding rhetoric, the soundtrack to the signing ceremony for the Trump administration’s latest executive order should have been the noise of a never-used spigot turning. The order issued in April 2017 was messaged as a dramatic – and seemingly instantaneous – reversal of the…
By Jill McLeod, Partner, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Anchorage, Alaska There has been a lot of press surrounding what President Trump has done in his first 100 days of office, especially when it comes to his actions that have an impact on domestic energy production in the U.S. Since taking office in January, President Trump…
By Maurice Walch Many investors are feeling as though there is no safe haven for their investments these days. Depending on what you read, U.S. stocks are overvalued and the recovery is over, leveled out or fading. Europe, recently the darling for investment capital, has been a disaster of late. The influx of refugees threatens…
By Scott Jeffrey Well, the simple answer is because they can. When Peter Lougheed started the Fund back in 1976, he invested $2 billion as seed money, and said that his new government would commit to investing 30 per cent of the government’s take on oil and gas revenue to help grow the Fund. This…
