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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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Aviva Investors

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AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment manager with significant scale, deep credit expertise, and a diversified private credit platform spanning the risk-return spectrum. As of June 30, 2026, AB managed approximately $905 billion in firmwide assets, supported by more than 50 years of investment experience.AB’s private credit business has grown into a $91 billion platform comprising four complementary franchises:
  • AB CarVal provides differentiated exposure to asset-based and opportunistic credit, backed by nearly four decades of experience. The platform has invested more than $161 billion across 5,895 transactions in 82 countries, with expertise spanning asset-based finance, aviation leasing, energy transition, residential mortgages, and opportunistic credit.
  • AB Private Credit Investors focuses on middle-market direct lending and fund finance. Since inception, the team has committed more than $32 billion across nearly 800 transactions, primarily across senior secured private credit.
  • AB Commercial Real Estate Debt (US and Europe) originates senior mortgage loans across core, transitional, and opportunistic real estate, emphasizing senior secured positions, strong collateral, and disciplined underwriting.
  • AB Private Placements provides access to investment-grade corporate, infrastructure, and structured private debt. With more than four decades of experience, the platform offers customized solutions with enhanced structuring, covenant protection, and yield premiums relative to comparable public credit.
AB provides access to a single, global private credit platform capable of delivering diversified exposure across corporate lending, asset-based finance, real estate debt, aviation leasing, energy transition, and investment-grade private debt. These capabilities are supported by AB’s broader global infrastructure, risk-management framework, sourcing network, and fixed income resources.

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.

BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts (BNPP AM Alts) is the alternative investments platform of BNP Paribas Asset Management. It is the largest alternatives asset manager in Europe and a global leader, with approximately €300 billion in assets under management across Real Estate, Infrastructure, Alternative Credit and Private Equity. With more than 30-year track record, BNPP AM Alts has built a reputation as a pioneering and innovative asset manager, combining an entrepreneurial investment culture with strategic discipline.

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.

Fiera Capital Corporation is an independent asset management firm with a growing global presence and approximately C$164.1 billion in AUM as at December 31, 2025. We deliver disciplined, high-conviction investment solutions across public and private markets, differentiated by world-class investment talent, to create lasting value and stability in dynamic global markets.

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.

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) is a leading global alternative investment manager offering clients complementary primary and secondary investment solutions across the credit, real estate, private equity and infrastructure asset classes. We seek to advance our stakeholders’ long-term goals by providing flexible capital that supports businesses and creates value for our investors and within our communities. By collaborating across our investment groups, we aim to generate consistent and attractive investment returns throughout market cycles. As of June 30, 2026, Ares Management Corporation’s global platform had over $671 billion of assets under management, with operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. For more information, please visit www.ares.com.

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.

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