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Mary Susanne. The Story of My Career. My Own Business

Mary Susanne continued: “My license from the OSC was to be effective on January 15, 1986, so I was leaving MICC after Christmas 1985 and starting my business in January 1986. I thought my first client was going to be the pension fund at MICC, however, just before Christmas, in fact as I was leaving for Christmas holidays, the secretary to the CEO at MICC came to see me.  She was so upset.  She said I just have to tell you this before I type the letter. The letter said that they would not give me the pension fund to manage. They were going to manage it themselves which they managed to make a mess of, but that’s neither here ...

Mary Susanne. The Story of My Career. The Early Days

I asked Mary Susanne to provide me with a brief synopsis of her career.  She said:  “Well, I graduated in history and French. How did I end up in the investment business?  I had a grandfather and an uncle who had their own investment company and I guess it was in my genes.  And I had a grandfather who was an obstetrician who played the stock market, lost all his money in 1929 and made it all back again.  So the investment business was in my genes. After graduation, I worked in the summer of 1968 at Wood Gundy and then I worked for Wood Gundy in London, England with the “Cockney Sparrows” in the cage and normally they don’t ...