Our Story
David Wingnean and I were medical school classmates with a shared passion for value investing. We realized most practicing physicians lack the time and inclination to manage their financial future. Many, like us, have been disappointed by conventional investment choices. We believe that hard working professionals deserve better.
To address this problem, we asked McElvaine Investment Management Ltd to design an investment vehicle with our own retirement needs in mind: a fund with a multi-decade time horizon, reasonable fees and a laser-like focus on preservation of capital. The methodology is based on the teachings of value investing gurus such as Warren Buffett, Peter Cundill and Seth Klarman, while being further refined by contemporary evidence-based principles.
The Osler Fund is named in honour of the father of modern medicine, Sir William Osler, arguably the most famous and respected Canadian physician, whether alive or dead. His guiding principles of integrity, pragmatism, and humility along with his legendary incisive inductive reasoning are attributes we admire and emulate.
I work with Tim McElvaine on The Osler Fund and both David and I are investors. I believe in aligning my interest with our investors and have majority of my family's investable assets in The Osler Fund.
I cordially invite fellow physicians, allied professionals and their friends and family to invest alongside me.
To address this problem, we asked McElvaine Investment Management Ltd to design an investment vehicle with our own retirement needs in mind: a fund with a multi-decade time horizon, reasonable fees and a laser-like focus on preservation of capital. The methodology is based on the teachings of value investing gurus such as Warren Buffett, Peter Cundill and Seth Klarman, while being further refined by contemporary evidence-based principles.
The Osler Fund is named in honour of the father of modern medicine, Sir William Osler, arguably the most famous and respected Canadian physician, whether alive or dead. His guiding principles of integrity, pragmatism, and humility along with his legendary incisive inductive reasoning are attributes we admire and emulate.
I work with Tim McElvaine on The Osler Fund and both David and I are investors. I believe in aligning my interest with our investors and have majority of my family's investable assets in The Osler Fund.
I cordially invite fellow physicians, allied professionals and their friends and family to invest alongside me.
About Us
Lorne Porayko, MD, FRCP(C), CIM
Lorne is a staff critical care physician and anaesthesiologist practicing in Victoria, BC for the past 18+ years. He is an Assistant Professor and an award-winning clinical teacher in the Island Medical School Program. He has done both clinical and volunteer work in Australia, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Ontario over his medical career. Lorne has twin intellectual passions: value investing and resuscitation medicine. He balances these with his devotion to his family and his closest friends. In his spare time, he analyzes companies, trains in Muay Thai alongside his lovely wife, Jennifer. |
Tim McElvaine CA CFA
Tim is the founder and President of McElvaine Investment Management Ltd. Tim was previously Chief Investment Officer at Cundill Funds having worked with renown value investor Peter Cundill for many years. Tim has served on the Board of Directors of several publically listed companies including: Sun-Rype Products Ltd., Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc., Rainmaker Entertainment Inc., and Glacier Media Inc. Tim has been a speaker at many value investing conferences including the Value Investing Seminar in Italy, Institute of Advanced Financial Planners Annual Symposium and The Ben Graham Centre's Value Investing Conference. In addition Tim is often quoted in The Globe and Mail and was featured in the investment book Stock Market Superstars. Tim and Kate live in Victoria where they try to keep up with their blended family of 8. |