Mario Daniel Richard

Fiera Capital Corp. (Investment Management) (FCC-IM) is the investment management division of Fiera Capital Corp. (TSE: FSZ), a publicly listed asset management firm headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. The firm was founded in 2010 through a merger with Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. FCC-IM offers customized multi-asset solutions across traditional and alternative asset classes to institutional, retail, and private wealth clients across North America, Europe, and key markets in Asia.

Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. provides financial planning services to its clients. It provides services to corporations, governments, hospitals, charitable foundations, endowments, universities, unions, high net-worth individuals, reserve funds of insurance companies, estates, trusts, and private corporations. The company was founded on November 22, 1955 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. (TSE: SZ), incorporated in 1955, has been in its present form since 1971. Based in Toronto, Sceptre is one of Canada's largest institutional fund managers. In September 2000, Sceptre announced a strategic alliance with Putnam Investments, Inc. Sceptre became the exclusive marketing agent of Putnam's institutional investment products in Canada. Their Canadian equity and income funds include: the Sceptre Money Market Fund, the Sceptre Bond Fund, the Sceptre Private Client Bond Fund, the Sceptre High Income Fund, the Sceptre Income & Growth Fund, the Sceptre Canadian Equity Fund, the Sceptre Private Client Canadian Equity Fund and the Sceptre Equity Growth Fund. Sceptre's mutual funds include the Sceptre Income & Growth Fund, the Sceptre Bond Fund, Sceptre High Income Fund, the Sceptre Canadian Equity Fund, the Sceptre Equity Growth Fund, the Sceptre Global Equity Fund and the Sceptre Money Market Fund. Their institutional products include the Balanced Pool Fund, the Endowment, Foundations and Trusts (EFT) Pooled Fund, the Equity Pool, the Canadian Equity Pool, the Small-Cap Canadian Equity Pool, the Bond Pool, the Foreign Equity Pool and the Institutional Pooled Fund.

Montrusco Associates, Inc. provides financial advisory services. The private company is based in York, Canada.

Montrusco Bolton Investments, Inc. (Montrusco Bolton) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Founded in 1946, Montrusco Bolton provides investment management services to individuals, including high net-worth individuals, banks or thrift institutions, pension and profit-sharing plans, trusts, estates, or charitable organizations, corporations or other business entities and to several private investment funds.

Manulife Investment Management Ltd. (MIML) is the global asset management arm of Manulife Investment Management Holdings (Canada) Ltd., ultimately held by Manulife Financial Corp. (NYSE, TSE: MFC) in Canada. The firm was founded in 1949 and formerly known as MFC Global Investment Management and as Manulife Asset Management Ltd. Headquartered in Toronto, MIML and their affiliates provide comprehensive asset management solutions for pension plans, foundations, endowments, financial institutions and other institutional investors worldwide, as well as for Manulife and John Hancock's wealth management and retirement products.