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CIBC Asset Management, Inc. (CIBC AM) is a Canadian asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1972 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE, TSE: CM), a publicly traded Canadian chartered bank. CIBC AM manages assets on behalf of institutional, high-net-worth clients and underlying investors in their retail sponsored products.

Cormark Securities Inc. (Cormark) is an independent investment dealer headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in Calgary. The firm was founded in 1981 as Sprott Securities, Inc. Cormark Securities provides execution and comprehensive coverage of Canadian listed companies to domestic and international institutional investors. They focus on Canadian-listed, mid-cap and emerging growth companies.

Merrill Lynch Canada, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. They are a subsidiary of Midland Walwyn, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm offers brokerage and investment banking services as well as commercial lending, global high-yield debt, global equity, and M&A services to institutional and retail clients.

The Bell Telephone Company of Canada engages in the provision of communications services. It includes residential, business, and wholesale customers with a range of solutions to all their communications needs, such as wireless, television, internet, home phone, and small business and enterprise communications services. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Verdun, Canada.

First Eagle Investment Management LLC (FEIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and holding firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1864 and formerly known as Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder Advisers, Inc. FEIM provides investment advisory services primarily to mutual funds, private funds, collective investment trusts and institutional separately managed accounts (SMAs), as well as to a registered, closed-end interval fund. The firm serves as the investment adviser to the First Eagle Funds, First Eagle Variable Funds and to the First Eagle Credit Opportunities Fund, which are registered investment companies.

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

The Group's principal activities are to provide investment, financing, advisory, insurance and related products and services on a global basis. The Group's services includes securities brokerage, trading, insurance, record keeping and underwriting through its broker, dealer, banking, insurance and other financial services subsidiaries. The Group operates in three business segments: Global Markets and Investment Banking group, Global Private Client, and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. The principal subsidiary of the Group is Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., which provides securities brokerage, option contracts, commodity and financial futures contracts, selected insurance products, options, corporate and municipal securities, investment banking and business advisory services. The Group operates in Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Pacific Rim, Canada and Latin America. In 2005, the Group acquired Pax Clearing Corp, the advest Group and Amvescap Plc.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Sectoral Asset Management, Inc. (Sectoral) is an investment management firm headquartered in Montréal, Canada. The firm was founded in 2000 by Jérôme G. Pfund and Michael J. Sjöström. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sectoral Asset Management Holding Ltd. in Hong Kong. Sectoral manages public and private equity healthcare strategies for investors around the world. Their clients include sovereign wealth funds, private banks, and family offices. In addition, they have long-standing sub-advisory relationships with institutional investors in Europe and Asia.

Baker Gilmore & Associates, Inc. (Baker Gilmore) is an independent investment management firm headquartered in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The firm was founded in 1988 and they provide traditional and customized fixed income solutions and advice for mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, corporations and non-profit institutions. Baker Gilmore is a socially responsible investor and a signatory to the United Nations – Principles of Responsible Investing (PRI) initiative.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.

Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. manufactures aerospace and aircraft engines. It designs services aircraft engines, space propulsion systems, and industrial gas turbines for the aerospace and building industries. The firm offers repair, rentals, warranty programs, customer training, tooling solutions, and maintenance services. The company was founded by James Young in 1928 and is headquartered in Longueuil, Canada.

Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. engages in the provision of management and technology consulting services. Its services include consulting, analytics, digital solutions, engineering, cyber security, and product. The company was founded by Edwin G. Booz in 1914 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Webraska is one of the leading providers of mobile GPS navigation solutions and high-end geospatial software platforms for wireless carriers, Internet portals and large service providers worldwide. Webraska focuses on three main product lines: Webraska Navigation, a satellite navigation GPS software for mobiles phones that provides real time traffic optimized routing, safety camera alerts, crystal clear voice instructions and easy to read colour maps showing street names and intersections, guiding drivers safely and on time to their destination. Webraska Navigation is compatible with smartphones and PDA phones running Java, BlackBerry, Linux, Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile operating systems. SmartZone Geospatial Platform (SGP), a carrier grade, high performance, fully redundant platform that provides geocoding, reverse geocoding, mapping, routing and local search functionality. SGP is available in ASP and hosted mode. Webraska Inuk, a platform designed to allow location-based service operators to support user-created dynamic content. Webraska Inuk is a powerful and flexible platform enabling service operators, content providers, business users and end-users to dynamically integrate, location-enable, manage, update, and distribute large data bases of content-rich data.

Bombardier Aerospace, Inc. manufactures and designs aviation products and services. The firm's products include the Challenger 300, Challenger 605, Global 5000, Global Express, Dash 8, and the CRJ series. It also offers business jets, short-range airliners, and fire-fighting amphibious aircraft. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Dorval, Canada.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Richardson Capital Ltd. (Richardson Capital) is a private equity arm of Richardson Financial Group Ltd founded in 2003. The firm is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada.

Forum Mondial de L'Economie engages in the foremost political, business and cultural organizations to shape global, regional and industry agendas. The company was founded by Klaus Schwab in 1971 and is headquartered in Cologny, Switzerland.

The Québec Bar Association is a professional organization that oversees the practice of over 29,000 lawyers in all areas of law. The organization is based in Montréal, Canada. and has subsidiaries in Canada. The mission of the association is to ensure the protection of the public, contribute to accessible and quality justice, and defend the rule of law.

ITWorx Corp. operates as a Information Technology Services firm providing cloud based and on premise solutions. Its services include big data, integrated support services, business intelligence, user experience, portals, quality, security, outsourcing, customer relationship management and social media management. The firm serves governments, financial services firms, institutions, telecommunication operators, and media companies in North America, Europe, and the Middle East continents. The company was founded by Ahmed Badr, Wael Amin and Youssri Helmy in 1994 and is headquartered in Nasr, Egypt.

Wadi Holdings SAE provides poultry and agricultural support services. It comprises numerous agri-business companies delivering products to consumers and business companies. The group's earlier startups have taken place years ago, namely in Lebanon, Syria, KSA, and Jordan. The company was founded in 1984 by Musa Suleiman Freiji and is headquartered in Giza, Egypt.

Syncora Guarantee, Inc. provides guarantee US municipal bonds; asset-backed securities; debt backed by utilities and selected infrastructure projects; specialized risks, including future flow securitizations and bank deposit insurance; and collateralized debt obligations. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Musée d''Archéologie & d''Histoire de Montréal Pointe-a-Callière owns and operates museums. The company is headquartered in Montréal, Canada.

Vertone SAS provides business development consulting services. It specializes in management, marketing strategy, customer relations, sales, and operations. The firm offers its solutions to the energy, transportation, distribution, telecommunication, media, tourism, insurance, banking, and government sectors. The company was founded by Pascal Boulnois and Benoit Tesson in 1999 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

The EuroMena Funds is an alternative investment manager. The American company was founded by Gilles de Clerck.