Dan Chornous

Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management (PHN) offers equity, fixed-income and balanced investment products. The firm offers a variety of equity funds including Canadian, international, emerging markets and sector-specific offerings across all market-caps. They apply a wide variety of investment styles including: value, growth and quality growth at a reasonable price. PHN uses a combination of fundamentals-driven and top-down research. Their fundamental research focuses on individual companies and considers measures such as earnings, growth, balance sheet strength and management quality. Valuation is also an integral part of their process as a stock must be well-priced. The firm's top-down research focuses on economic conditions and the operating climate for a given stock. PHN employs a multiple strategy fixed-income investment approach. Their actively managed funds and investment solutions provide access to a wide range of fixed-income instruments including money market, mortgage securities, Government bonds (federal provincial), corporate bonds, high-yield bonds and foreign bonds.

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The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) is an organization representing 51 major institutional investors managing approximately $6.4 trillion in assets. The organization develops and disseminates best practice guidance on governance, environmental and social oversight, and executive compensation through committees chaired by industry leaders. CCGG recognizes excellence in shareholder communications via its governance gavel awards and participates in public policy advocacy by responding to regulatory consultations and engaging with boards, regulators, and the public on governance challenges including diversity, AI oversight, and climate-related disclosures. The non-profit company is based in Toronto, Canada. It promotes good corporate governance practices and supports institutional investors in fulfilling their fiduciary and stewardship responsibilities. CCGG facilitates private engagement between independent directors of Canadian public companies and institutional investors through its engagement program, which includes annual board engagement reports and issuer-specific research available to members. It publishes resources such as the executive and director compensation guidebook, building high performance boards policy, and annual best practices for proxy circular disclosure reports. Membership benefits include access to exclusive research, educational webinars, participation in committees, and detailed governance reviews. The Canadian company was founded by Claude Richard Lamoureux, Stephen Arnold Jarislowsky.

RBC GAM is an active, engaged and responsible investor that manages Canadian, US and global equity, fixed-income and balanced portfolios. Their investment approach relies on a variety of fundamental and quantitative research and technical analysis. The firm invests across a variety of sectors. Their fixed-income strategies focus on investments in government securities, investment grade bonds and high yield corporate bonds. In addition, they offer a debt strategy for emerging markets in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as investment strategies based on the use of futures, forwards and options.