Globe and Mail – When Salida Capital Corp. beat all other bidders in a charity auction last month to score lunch with Warren Buffett, the $1.68-million (U.S.) win sent a signal to Bay Street: Salida is back.

Salida, the once high-flying, resource-focused hedge fund manager known for its appetite for risk, became one of Canada’s high-profile victims of last year’s market meltdown when its flagship Multi Strategy Fund plunged 67 per cent and three of its hedge funds got locked up in the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy.

That was followed by a rapid exodus of key staffers and by dwindling assets under management.

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