PMC-Sierra – The importance of innovation, adaptability and resilience
Release Date: 10/01/2024
Pender Podcast PM Series - Pender Credit Opportunities Fund - The Story So Far
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Lessons and opportunities as the Fund approaches its three year anniversary As the Pender Credit Opportunities Fund approaches its three-year anniversary, Lead Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income Geoff Castle and Associate Portfolio Manager, Parul Garg join host Laura Baker to reflect on the fund's journey since launch. This episode breaks down how stressed and distressed credit works, how they find and size opportunities, and why Pender's established credit platform gives this fund a structural edge.
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Pender Podcast - World Cup Series - The Tournament Problem: Luck, Skill & Process
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When perceived advantages don't always equate to results. In the third episode of Pender's World Cup Series, Senior Equity Analyst Felix Narhi joins host Laura Baker to explore why being the favourite can become a liability and what underdog teams like Cabo Verde and Team Canada reveal about the structural advantages of playing with freedom, finding mispriced bets, and building a culture that outlasts any strategy.
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Pender Podcast: World Cup Series, The Curse of Possession Football
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In the second episode of Pender's World Cup Series, Senior Equity Analyst Felix Narhi joins host Laura Baker to explore why copying a winning strategy is often the fastest path to failure and what Team Canada's secret weapon reveals about finding your own irreplicable edge in soccer, business, and investing.
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Pender Podcast: World Cup Series, The Bias for Action
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What soccer can teach us about investing. In the first episode of Pender's World Cup Series, Senior Equity Analyst, Felix Narhi joins host Associate Client Portfolio Manager, Laura Baker to explore what soccer's penalty kick paradox can teach investors about the bias for action and why, in markets and on the field, the hardest decision is often choosing to do nothing.
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Pender Podcast: Multi-Manager Funds
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Rethinking Diversification in a Correlated World Pender's CIO and Portfolio Manager, Greg Taylor spoke with Associate Client Portfolio Manager, Laura Baker to discuss how the Pender Alternative Multi-Strategy Income Fund and the newly launched Pender Alternative Multi-Strategy Growth Fund are built to diversify return drivers, not just holdings, in a market where equities and bonds increasingly move together. A conversation on portfolio construction, liquid alternatives, and finding a smoother ride to your investment goals.
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Pender Equity PM Series: The Case for US Small & Mid Cap Equities
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Dispersion, Discipline, and Downside Protection in an Overcrowded Market In a market dominated by mega-cap concentration and AI-driven narratives, this episode explores the overlooked opportunity set within US small and mid cap equities. Portfolio Manager, Aman Budhwar spoke with Associate Client Portfolio Manager, Laura Baker on his disciplined, bottom-up investment framework, focused on sustainable competitive advantages, strong capital allocation, and downside protection. The conversation offers a compelling case for active management in a market rich with mispricing, where careful...
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Find Opportunity in Volatile Markets
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Building Resilient Portfolios and Managing risk Through Market Cycles In this episode, Laura Baker, Associate Client Portfolio Manager and Greg Taylor, CIO and Portfolio Manager, explore approaches to active investing, risk management, and generating returns in increasingly concentrated and volatile markets. From lessons in the dot-com era to today’s AI-driven environment, he breaks down how thematic investing, downside protection, and disciplined execution can help investors navigate uncertainty and outperform over time.
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The Intelligence Economy
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Artificial intelligence, productivity, and the next capital cycle In this episode, Laura Baker, Associate Client Portfolio Manager, spoke with Toufic Boubez, Venture Partner at Pender Ventures, where they explored how artificial intelligence is reshaping business models, productivity, and capital cycles, while challenging traditional notions of work, learning, and competitive advantage. The podcast examines where real value is being created, what risks could derail the AI boom, and how humans will continue to play a critical role alongside increasingly capable machines.
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What Is Digital Ownership? A Guide to Tokenization
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Exploring how tokenization is reshaping ownership and financial infrastructure In this episode, we discuss an important, and yet misunderstood idea at the intersection of technology and finance: tokenization. While much of the conversation around digital assets has focused on cryptocurrency, tokenization is fundamentally about the evolution of ownership and the evolution of financial infrastructure. To unpack these questions, Laura Baker, Associate Client Portfolio Manager, is joined by Sébastien Davies, Partner at Primal Capital, focused on early-stage financial and digital asset...
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Small Caps, AI, and Software Opportunity
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Valuation dispersion, software pessimism, and shifting capital flows may be setting the stage for a new cycle in small-cap investing. In this episode, Associate Client Portfolio Manager, Laura Baker speaks with CEO and Portfolio Manager, David Barr about small caps, the reset in software valuations, and how AI is reshaping both risk and opportunity. The conversation explores private market value, capital efficiency, and why today’s uncertainty may present one of the more compelling entry points in years for active investors.
info_outlineThis 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 for networking, telecommunications and data storage.
Maria Pacella, Managing Partner of Pender Ventures sat down with three key executives and co-founders, each of whom made significant contributions to the semiconductor industry, Greg Aasen, Kevin Huscroft and Colin Harris.
They look back on the critical phases of PMC-Sierra's evolution, the strategic decisions made by leadership, its impact on the broader tech landscape, navigating 2000, and what they’d do differently if they had to do it all again.