Bill Cara, one of the top economists in the world calls for OSC to investigate Aurelian / Kinross Deal
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Message 24946597
Who is Bill Cara?
Bill Cara is known internationally as “The Trader Wizard”. Retired from active business at the end of 2000, he began to write a trading blog in April 2004 that quickly became popular around the world, gaining popularity with mainstream media like Wall St Journal, Barron's and Forbes, where he is listed as their "Favorite" trading blog. There are as of the summer of 2007, approximately 100,000 readers in 140 countries, with an annualized hit rate of over 100 million. On July 7, 2007, he moved to Nassau Bahamas where he anticipates becoming a permanent resident, and where he will operate a registered securities firm called Cara Trading Advisors (Bahamas) Ltd. His book “Lessons of the Trader Wizard” is due for publication by ISI Publications in February, 2008.
As a private Canadian businessman, Bill Cara has extensive experience in the Canadian securities industry. He was the co-founder/CEO of Qtrade Investor (Canada’s leading online broker), founder and President of Security Traders International (offshore trading broker), President of William Cara Investment Bancorp (registered Ontario securities dealer), founder/CEO Canaccord Capital’s Eastern Canada Operations (Canada’s largest full-service independently-owned broker-dealer) and broker and portfolio manager with Dominion Securities and Dominion Securities Investment Management (now RBC).
Bill has been called as an expert witness by the Canadian Securities Administrators at a forum on electronic trading brokerage and also by the Senate of Canada Banking Committee Task Force on the future of Canada’s financial services industry. The Government of Canada has invited Bill to speak with Canada’s trade commissioner in three Asian countries. He has also been a member of the Government of Ontario Task Force that reviewed the operations of the Canadian unlisted securities market, now operated by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Bill also supported non-profit, non-governmental organizations committed to the United Nations Global Compact for Third World economic sustainability. |
