Toby Smith Stock Review

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CREE's Swoboda: ``results will speak for themselves''
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ag2W.TpueCWY&refer=home
...The ``results will speak for themselves,'' Cree Chief Executive Officer Chuck Swoboda said in an interview today in San Francisco. He declined to comment on earnings or say whether the company will be acquired. ...Cree is scheduled to announce first-quarter results Oct. 18....

Last Call: Cree
...Cree Shares Tumble After an Analyst Downgrades, Predicting Weak December Quarter... but another analyst views pullback as a opportunity to buy the stock...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071003/last_call_cree.html?.v=1


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Canaccord Adams (formerly Adams Harkness)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
...Canaccord Adams, the international capital markets division of Canaccord Capital Inc., has operations in Toronto, London, Boston, Vancouver, New York, Calgary, Montreal, San Francisco, and Houston....
http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/108/108884.html
...provides equities research, sales, and trading services, and investment banking services such as securities underwriting, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions advice. Formed in 1969 through the merger of Weston W. Adams & Company and Harkness & Hill, the company specializes in such industries as technology, metals, mining, life sciences, real estate, and gaming. Canaccord Adams also acts as a market maker for small- and mid-cap stocks in the US, Canada, and Europe. Canaccord Capital acquired the firm in 2006....

Canaccord Capital Inc.
http://www.canaccord.com/default.htm
operates through two segments: Private Client Services and Capital Markets.
...The Private Client Services division provides brokerage services and investment advice and products to retail or private clients. The Capital Markets division includes investment banking, research and trading activities on behalf of corporate, institutional and government clients....
Through its principal subsidiaries, Canaccord Capital Inc. (TSX & AIM: CCI)
http://www.canaccord.com/NR/rdonlyres/75216DEF-AB20-4628-B5A5-2E70687F72DB/0/2007ar_corporate_profil...
is a leading independent, full service investment dealer in Canada with capital markets operations in the United Kingdom and the United States of America....

Hedge fund focus/experience, etc : see Arpad A. Busson in Canaccord Capital Inc. Board of Directors list
http://www.canaccord.com/investor/aboutus/BOD.htm
Arpad A. Busson (2005)
...A founding member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). He helped pioneer the Moore Group and the Tudor Group (two of the largest and best known hedge fund management groups in the world). Mr. Busson founded the EIM Group, one of the largest funds of funds in the world. He has served on different panels internationally as a hedge fund industry expert....

Aug 2004: Busson in "Canaccord Capital Inc. Announces New Directors"
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=151421
...Mr. Busson was educated in France and at the Le Rosey Institute in Switzerland. Mr. Busson began his career raising assets for individual hedge funds, including the Tudor Group and Moore Capital, two of the largest and best-known hedge fund management groups in the world. In 1991, Mr. Busson founded the EIM Group, which is today one of the world's largest providers of customized fund-of-hedge-fund solutions for institutional investors, with over 150 employees worldwide. EIM has allocated over US$ 10 billion to hedge funds, of which US$ 7 billion is in discretionary mandates. Mr. Busson is Chairman of the EIM Group and is also Chairman of EIM's Global Investment Committee, which sets EIM's investment policy and due-diligence standards, and approves hedge funds for investment. He is a founding member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), which is the largest hedge fund association in the world. Mr. Busson is also the founding trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) and continues as chairman of its board of directors. ARK has been highly successful in raising charitable contributions from the hedge fund industry to further its aim of transforming the lives of children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness and poverty. The information required to be disclosed with respect to the appointment of Mr. Busson to the board under the AIM rules will be provided in a separate release....

Arpad A. Busson bio:
...(known as "Arki"), born in Switzerland in 1963, is a London based French/Swiss financier in Hedge Funds...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpad_Busson
contains a lot of gossipy stuff, but does have some re hedge funds, etc: