Gerrard Schmid

CIBC World Markets is a full-service investment bank headquartered in New York City. CIBC provides an internationally integrated research product through three primary strategies. In the US, the firm provides research coverage available in areas of focus, including technology, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, power generation and technology, financial institutions, consumer growth, real estate and media. In Canada, the firm offers the full spectrum of coverage for all of the sectors that form the TSE 300 Index. Their broad investment grade analysis of return bond Indices provides daily performance of the Canadian bond market. The sectors covered are: government of Canada bonds, provincial and municipal bonds and corporate bonds rated AAA/AA, A and BBB. Also available is a monthly ABS/MBS market report that provides information on ABS market conditions, market summary data and monthly performance reports on outstanding transactions. This report includes information about the MBS market, including key statistics on MBS spreads and prepayments. Another report contains MBS trading data, cash flows and other key data. A separate monthly Portfolio Valuation Report provides month end pricing for ABS and MBS transactions. Corporate debt research produces highly targeted credit analysis and research for investment grade and high yield debt securities. The corporate bond review covers bond market action, new issues, price/yield movements, rating changes, and buy/sell recommendations. The fixed-income research group produces actionable fundamental and technical analysis, strategies, products, and runs bond indexes and quantitative models relating specifically to fixed income markets, bond portfolios, and individual securities. CIBC provides risk management solutions to corporations, investors, financial institutions, and governments across all asset classes: interest rates, equities, credit, currency, and commodities. CIBC World Markets is a subsidiary of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

Worldline IGSA SA provides payment solutions through different sales channels. It operates through the following trademarks: Ingenico Smart Terminals, Ingenico Payment Services, and Ingenico ePayments. The company was founded by Jean-Jacques Poutrel and Michel Malhouitre on June 10, 1980 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Davis + Henderson Income Fund is a closed-End Investment Fund company. The firm provides chequing accounts and lending services to the financial services industry through its partnership units of Davis + Henderson LP and its subsidiaries Filogix LP, Filogix Inc., Cyence International Inc. and Advanced Validation System LP. It offers chequing & credit card accounts program which include ChequeCentral, ChequeAdvisor, ChequeEssentials, IDefence, BizAssist, eSwitch and credit lifecycle management solutions program which include Filogix Expert, Filogix Express, Filogix Exchange, CollateralGuard, Cyence and Filogix DMS. The company was founded on November 6, 2001 and is headquartered in Toronto, ON.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Filogix LP used to provide technology to the mortgage and real estate industries. The company was founded in 2000 and was headquartered in Toronto, Canada.