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Private Debt Investments Forum 2026

November 3, 2026
One King West Hotel, Toronto ON

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Alliance Bernstein

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Northleaf Capital Partners

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AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management
firm that offers diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We are one of the largest investment management firms in the world, with $875 billion in assets under management as of
January 31, 2026. We foster a diverse, connected, collaborative
culture that encourages different ways of thinking and differentiated insights. We embrace innovation to address increasingly complex investing challenges. We pursue responsibility throughout our firm—from how we work and act to the solutions we design for clients.

Diverse Needs…Diverse Solutions
We work closely with clients to define and achieve their financial goals. As markets and needs evolve, we provide global perspective, independent research and investment discipline. Every client, everywhere, can benefit from access to our firm’s full resources. Today, our investment strategies span all markets and asset
classes— creating a diverse and strategic balance of global services.

  • Fixed Income: We bring together innovative research and forward-looking perspective across our suite of global, regional, multi-sector and single- sector fixed-income services to solve our clients’ most complex and unique investment challenges.
  • Equities: Driven by distinctive research insights, we provide a comprehensive suite of equity strategies across geographies, capitalization ranges and investment styles—each focused on achieving outcomes that matter to our clients.
  • Multi-Asset: We design and deliver a full range of integrated, dynamic multi-asset solutions tailored to the needs of each client, helping keep them ahead of the evolving investment landscape.
  • Alternatives: Bringing together independent agility and institutional strength, we provide nontraditional investments and strategies to help diversify portfolios with new sources of risk and return.

LEARN MORE:
Alliancebernstein.com

Aviva Investors is a leading global asset manager that combines the breadth of our multi-asset, private and public market capabilities to deliver solutions that are designed to last. We operate across 9 countries with over USD $309* bn of AUM.

With an approach rooted in the principles of collaboration and commitment, we are experts in connecting the right investment capabilities with individual client needs. We use the full scope of our capabilities to design solutions that last – solutions that start with you.

The value of an investment is subject to increases and decreases. Investors may not recover the amount originally invested. * Data as at 31 March 2025.

Coller Capital is a global leader in the secondary market for private assets, renowned for being a pioneer and innovator in the asset class. Founded in 1990, Coller provides investment and liquidity solutions to private market investors worldwide, and currently manages $54 billion in private equity, private credit, and other private market vehicles. With headquarters in London and offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, our multinational team offers a truly global reach.

Coller has exclusively focused on secondary investing since inception and today boasts one of the largest dedicated investment teams in the asset class.

 Coller’s Private Wealth Secondaries Solutions (PWSS) business offers perpetual funds to eligible private wealth investors globally.

For more information, visit  www.collercapital.com.

Cortland Credit is a leading Canadian asset manager focused on short-term private debt. We provide financing solutions to established companies across Canada, the US and Western Europe looking to scale and develop their business.

Our expertise and collective experience in the field allow us to leverage deep origination networks and operate across the spectrum of borrowers, evaluating opportunities on a case-by-case basis. Our conservative underwriting is underpinned by strong collateral support and detailed oversight of our borrower’s operations, giving assurance to ourselves and our investors of the protection of their capital. At Cortland, we focus on senior-secured, floating rate loans that are generally less than 1 year in term, as we believe this asset class offers the best risk-adjusted returns available in private debt markets. The strategy attracts most of its AUM from Canadian institutions that use this strategy for diversification, yield enhancement and duration mitigation.

SLC Management is a global institutional asset manager that offers institutional investors traditional, alternative and yield-oriented investment solutions across public and private fixed income markets, as well as global real estate equity and debt a
nd infrastructure equity. We help our clients optimize their asset allocation profile and meet their long-term income and capital appreciation objectives by leveraging our insights and deep capabilities in fixed income, alternatives and real assets through our group of companies: SLC Fixed Income, BGO, Crescent Capital Group, InfraRed Capital Partners and Advisors
Asset Management.

Crescent is a global credit investment manager with over $C68 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2025. For over 30 years, the firm has focused on non- investment grade credit through strategies that invest in marketable and privately originated debt securities including senior bank loans, high yield bonds, as well as private senior, unitranche and junior debt securities. Crescent is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, London and Frankfurt with over 250 employees globally. For more information about Crescent, visit www.crescentcap.com.

As of December 31, 2025, SLC Management has assets under management of C$425 billion. For more information, visit www.slcmanagement.com.

AUM as of December 31, 2025. Total firm AUM includes assets managed by the SLC Management group of companies on
behalf of external clients, and the Sun Life General Account. AUM includes unfunded commitments, cash, equity, and other balances. Total firm AUM excludes assets under administration. The methodologies used to compile the total AUM are subject to change and may not reflect regulatory AUM. More information is available upon request.

Tikehau Capital is a global alternative asset management group managing €53.0 billion of assets (as of 31 March 2026). The Group has developed a wide range of expertise across four asset classes: Credit, Real Assets, Private Equity, and Capital Markets Strategies. Capitalizing on its strong equity base (€3.1 billion as of 31 December 2025), Tikehau Capital invests its own capital alongside its investor-clients. The Group is guided by a strong entrepreneurial spirit and DNA, shared by its 723 employees (as of 31 March 2026) across 17 offices in Europe, Asia, and North America.

Northleaf Capital Partners is a global private markets investment firm with US$29 billion in private equity, private credit and infrastructure commitments raised to date from public, corporate and multi-employer pension plans, endowments, foundations, financial institutions and family offices. Northleaf’s 275-person team is located in Toronto, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Menlo Park, Montreal, New York, Seoul and Tokyo. Northleaf sources, evaluates and manages private markets investments globally, with a focus on mid-market companies and assets.

CIBC Asset Management (CIBC AM) is the asset management subsidiary of CIBC. Dedicated to being the leader in client relationships, CIBC AM provides a range of high-quality investment management services and solutions to retail and institutional investors. Offerings include a comprehensive platform of mutual funds, strategic managed portfolio solutions, discretionary investment management services for high-net-worth individuals and institutions. CIBC AM is one of Canada’s largest asset management firms, with over C$268 billion in assets under administration as of September 30th, 2025.

At Franklin Templeton, we believe that success requires more than just expertise – it demands powerful partnerships. As a forward-thinking asset manager, we build dynamic relationships with our clients, understand their unique goals, and navigate the complexities of the market together. Our team leverages cutting-edge strategies and deep industry insights to unlock opportunities for growth. With Franklin Templeton by their side, investors don’t prepare for the future – they shape it.

Strategic acquisitions have built an industry leading range of capabilities across traditional and alternative asset classes. From stocks to bonds, ETFs, and across private equity, private debt, real estate, hedge funds and venture, we offer clients a singular access point to cutting edge strategies. We go beyond investing in single asset classes, and are able to create bespoke, outcome-oriented solutions for clients in each and every one of our segments. With more than 1,500 investment professionals, and offices in major financial markets around the world, we have over 75 years of investment experience and US$1.54 trillion in assets under management as of 30 April, 2025.

Nicola Institutional provides investors with access to diversified multi-asset portfolios as well as standalone private markets opportunities. Supported by an independent investment platform with over $17 billion in assets under management, Nicola Institutional can connect institutions of all sizes to private markets. For more than 20 years, Nicola has been actively investing in alternative asset classes and has curated a platform offering institutions access to private credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure.

Nicola Institutional leverages this track record to provide institutional investors with access to diversified portfolios designed with the objective of providing resilient, risk-adjusted returns. Our investment teams are supported by Investment Committees comprised of highly experienced professionals with top-tier institutional pedigrees, guiding decisions with rigor and discipline.

Built on the scale, resources, and expertise of a 30-year-old firm, Nicola Institutional delivers the access, oversight, and execution that institutions expect — while remaining focused on what truly drives results: differentiated private market strategies with the objective to preserve capital, enhance income, and support long-term growth.
*Nicola Institutional is the institutional arm of Nicola Wealth Management Ltd

Penfund is one of Canada’s leading private credit managers with a history dating back to 1979. Penfund provides senior and junior capital to middle market companies throughout North America. The firm is currently investing its most recently established junior fund, Fund VII, and recently launched senior fund, Penfund Prime. Assets and capital under management exceed C$3.0 billion. We are a relationship-oriented, hold-to-maturity lender capable of committing up to C$300 million per transaction (or USD equivalent).

Sagard is a global multi-strategy alternative asset management firm with more than US$32B under management, 190 portfolio companies, and 400 professionals.

Sagard is an alternative asset management firm that invests in venture capital, private equity, private credit, and real estate. We deliver flexible capital, an entrepreneurial culture, and a global network of investors, commercial partners, advisors, and value creation experts. Our dynamic and supportive ecosystem gives our partners the advantage they need to learn, grow and win at every stage.

The firm has offices in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

For more information, visit www.sagard.com.

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