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Background
John Budden (65) has 43 years of diverse, domestic and international investment experience.
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In addition to his investment activities he was a
contributing editor for The Financial Times of Canada
on ‘Interest Rates and Currencies’ from 1977 to 1988. He
had the privilege of interviewing
some of the world’s
top mutual fund portfolio managers for CNBC during the
early 1990's.
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From 1973 to 1981 he advised international corporations
on currency and commodity trading. In 1978 his firm, John
Budden, Inc., was acquired by Conti Commodity (REFCO) and
he became a Vice President (Canada).
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In 1983 he joined Dynamic Fund Management, as Vice
President, Marketing. At that time Dynamic was one of a
handful of Canadian mutual fund families offering No
Load funds.
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In 1985, he and Ted Rabin co-founded Rabin Budden
Partners, an investment counsellor and No Load mutual
fund manager. Rabin Budden Partners was acquired in
1988 by Altamira Management which became one of Canada’s
largest and top performing No Load mutual fund families.
- In 1990, he returned to Dynamic Fund Management as
President and CEO,
and as a Director of
Dundee Capital Inc. and Goodman & Company.
In 1992 he moved from Toronto
to Boston.
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In 1993, he acquired a 25% interest in, Kanon Bloch
Carre, a Boston based mutual fund research and consulting
firm. KBC had prepared the Exclusive Fund Survey for U.S.
News & World Report since 1989. Then in 1996 he sold his
interest to Bill Dougherty, the founding principal of KBC.
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Since 1995, his Boston/Ottawa based strategic consulting
practice has advised major international financial
services companies on mergers & acquisitions, strategic
alliances and emerging trends in the United States and
Canada.
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In January 2003 he joined Rob Snow, CFRA's Senior Business
Editor and host of Business@Night as the show's Markets
Commentator. Business@Night airs between
7:00 and
8:00 pm;
every weeknight.
In
addition, he can be heard every weekday afternoon on
the Budden Market Minute. CFRA is Ottawa's leading business / talk
radio station.
John Budden's IMO
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From March 2003 to March 2006, he
was a
director
of Ottawa based
SoundVest
Capital Management Ltd.
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From October 2003
through June 2005, John
was an
Advisor to
Ottawa based Orezone Resources, Inc.
an
emerging gold miner focused on growth through exploration
and acquisition in West Africa.
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In June 2004, he became an advisor to Ottawa based
Beaufield Resources
Inc.
and in December 2005 he was appointed to the
board of directors.
He feels at home internationally with the first
twenty-five years of his career spent in Europe and
Canada followed by 10 years operating from Boston before
returning to Ottawa in 2002.
In addition, he has introduced a select group of
Great 'Under The Radar' core and alternative investment
managers to major pensions, endowments and family offices.
He has extensive contacts throughout the Canadian
institutional investing community as well as in the
U.S., Europe, Middle East and Far East.
This has allowed him to provide clients with relevant
insights into evolving global investment trends and
opportunities.
References upon request.
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