Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group Ltd. provides a broad range of traditional and alternative investment products and services to individuals, advisors and institutional investors.
With roots dating back to 1982, the firm has grown to become one of Canada’s largest privately owned asset management firms. Our affiliate teams collectively manage over $133 billion in assets from offices located across Canada and in New York, Chicago and London.
We recognize that long-term client satisfaction and business success depends on our ability to attract, motivate and retain investment talent. We are organized as a multi-boutique in the belief that smaller tightly focused operating units are the most effective means of attracting high quality individuals and establishing a suitable long-term alignment of interests.
We bring significant scale and expertise to the delivery of non-investment management functions through the centralization of all operational and distribution functions, allowing our talented investment managers to focus on what they do best.
Federated Investors and Hermes Investment Management have rebranded as Federated Hermes on January 31, 2020, strengthening the companies’ position as a leader in active, responsible investing. Together we are a US$575billion global asset manager focused on delivering world-class responsible investing and engagement services to our clients.
Each firm has a history of putting clients first and delivering sustainable, long-term performance and we believe the combination of our businesses will enable us to deliver a fuller range of investment solutions and drive both performance and positive outcomes for our clients.
Since 2018, when Federated acquired a majority interest in Hermes, our businesses have worked closely together and this change in our name reflects our commitment to offering a broad range of investment strategies and solutions to our clients globally – all predicated on the belief that responsible investing is the best way to deliver sustainable returns for our clients.
Hermes has been at the forefront of corporate governance and responsible investing, and we helped draft the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) as one of its founding signatories. Hermes is also a leading stewardship provider with a focus on achieving positive change. Our dedicated EOS team of engagement and voting specialists enables pension funds and other longer-term institutional investors to achieve their fiduciary responsibilities and be more active owners of companies.
Our public markets proficiency includes high active share equities, specialist credit and multi asset while our private markets expertise includes real estate, infrastructure, private equity and private debt.
For more information, visit www.federatedhermes.com
Sprott is a global asset manager providing investors with access to highly-differentiated precious metals and real assets investment strategies.
We are specialists. Our in-depth knowledge, experience and relationships separate us from the generalists. Sprott’s best-in-class investment products include innovative physical bullion trusts, mining ETFs, as well as private equity and debt strategies. We also partner with natural resource companies to help meet their capital needs through our merchant banking and resource lending activities. Sprott is based in Toronto and has offices in Connecticut, California and Vancouver. Our common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TSX: SII.
Sprott today serves over 200,000 global clients and has approximately CAD$10 billion (USD$8 billion) in assets under management as of 12/31/2018.
National Bank Investments Inc. (NBI) is a leading investment fund manager dedicated to providing an innovative range of investment solutions and services that empowers both retail and institutional investors to achieve their financial goals. We specialize in helping advisors build resilient portfolios for their investors through a full range of investment solutions: mutual funds and exchange-traded funds, asset allocation solutions, managed portfolios, private investments, sustainable investments, and a high-net-worth program. Our open architecture structure enables us to collaborate with leading global portfolio management firms, selecting only the best investment talent to support our clients’ needs.
At NBI, innovation and leadership are at the heart of everything we do, driving us to deliver strong investment outcomes to investors and advisors. We combine human expertise and technology to deliver optimal investment strategies while continuously enhancing our open architecture structure. We leverage our influential leadership to mobilize our partners, clients, the financial community and regulators, accelerating the transition toward more sustainable finance.
Invesco is committed to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. We serve our clients in this space as a trusted partner both on specific ESG product strategies as well as part of our commitment to deliver a superior investment experience.
We are committed to adopting and implementing ESG principles in a manner consistent with our fiduciary responsibilities to our clients. We have strengthened our position in this regard in several ways, including through industry advocacy, leadership and innovation. While our first SRI product was launched over 30 years ago, we became a signatory of the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment in 2013 and have since achieved an A+ in Governance and Strategy for four consecutive years. This rating demonstrates our extensive efforts in terms of ESG integration, active ownership, investor collaboration and transparency. We are also disclosers to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and supporters of the Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD).
At Desjardins, Global Asset Management (DGAM), we are known for our innovative leadership, our ability to create value and our prominent place in the Canadian market. Established in 2003, DGAM is now one of the leading institutional portfolio managers in Canada and a leader in responsible investment. It manages more than $63 billion in assets for life and health, property and casualty insurance companies, pension funds, foundations, trust companies, investment funds, public sector entities, corporations and ETF.
DGAM provides a full range of comprehensive solutions driven by innovation and performance in the following investment sectors: fixed income, Canadian equity, systematic strategies, asset allocation, alternative strategies and responsible investment.
DGAM consists of an investment team of more than 60 professionals, including nearly 40 highly qualified investment specialists, including a team of experts dedicated to responsible investment with close to $2 BN of assets under management in ESG strategies. DGAM is also a signatory to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Investment.
Rally Assets is an impact investment management firm. The firm helps investors generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Rally creates impact funds and other portfolios to enable foundations, other institutional investors, family offices and individual accredited investors to invest in alignment with their values. Through its joint venture in Realize Capital Partners, Rally is a fund-of-funds manager for the Government of Canada’s Social Finance Fund.
Rally is a Portfolio Manager and Exempt Market Dealer registered in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec with the respective provincial securities commissions.
Rally is a certified B Corporation.
NEI Investments (from its founding companies Ethical Funds and Northwest Funds) has evolved into Canada’s leading provider of Responsible Investment (RI) solutions in Canada, with the broadest range of RI-focused funds available to Canadian investors.
Our approach to RI is one of pragmatic optimism. Evidence shows that applying a range of approaches – including ESG evaluations, dialogue and engagement, selective screening, ESG-focused proxy voting and sustainability-themed investments – increasingly leads to better investment outcomes in terms risk mitigation and long-term investment performance. While the application of responsible screens is a powerful and effective tool we still employ today, we find we can make a greater difference – in investment returns, corporate policy and ESG outcomes – through engagement, and have grown to prefer working with a company’s board, management and other key stakeholders to help that company deliver positive change.
NEI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aviso Wealth, a fully integrated Canadian wealth management organization with nearly $100B in combined AUA and AUM.
We are a small team of passionate investors managing, on behalf of our clients, investment portfolios with a focus on high-quality companies that are well positioned to contribute to, and benefit from, sustainable development.
We believe that fund management has a social purpose, encouraging a savings culture around long-term investment. Our philosophy of careful stewardship is in the best interests of clients and should protect capital over the long term.
We invest over the long term across five regions: Asia, Europe, Global Emerging Markets, the Indian Subcontinent and Worldwide.
Founded over 40 years ago as the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, State Street Global Advisors is grounded in State Street’s 231-year heritage of helping people manage their assets wisely. Today, we’re the world’s fourth largest asset manager with $3.48 trillion* in assets under management for clients, ranging from central banks and sovereign wealth funds, to pensions, foundations, and investment advisors.
We have a history of innovation in developing a broad array of strategies across the risk-reward spectrum, from passive and enhanced index strategies, to active equity alternative investment strategies. Our product ranges are offered through commingled funds (mutual and ETFs) or through segregated accounts.