Institutional Connect West Forum 2025

June 11 - 13, 2025
Fairmont Pacific Rim, Vancouver BC

Platinum Sponsor

Mackenzie Investments

Mackenzie Investments

Gold Sponsor

Aviva Investors

Aviva Investors

Silver Sponsors

CIBC MELLON 1

CIBC Mellon

Fiera Capital 1

Fiera Capital

Hamilton Lane 1

Hamilton Lane

Rise

Rise Properties

SLC Management 1

SLC Management

Networking Break Sponsor

Pictet Asset Management 1

Pictet Asset Management

Bronze Sponsors

Dawson Partners

Dawson Partners

Trans Canada Capital TCC

Trans-Canada Capital (TCC)

To discuss your firm’s sponsorship involvement, please inquire
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Founded in 1967, Mackenzie Investments is a leading Canadian global asset manager headquartered in Toronto, with additional investment teams in Boston, Dublin, Beijing and Hong Kong. Managing $195.7 billion in assets, we are committed to delivering strong investment performance and offering innovative portfolio solutions to our clients.

Our institutional relationships are built on the experience and unique perspectives gained through more than 40 years working with clients.

We are wholly owned by IGM Financial, one of Canada’s premier financial services companies. Through IGM’s controlling shareholder, Power Corporation, with $3.1 trillion in assets under advisement (AUA), we have access to partners and expertise from across Irish Life, Canada Life, Sagard and Power Sustainable.

Aviva Investors is a global asset manager with over £218 bn* of AUM managed in real asset, fixed income, equity, multi-asset and alternative investments in 12 countries. Our clients can benefit not only from our significant local knowledge and experience, but also from the extensive global investment resources at our disposal. Responsibility is incorporated at all levels of our organization: understanding the factors, risks and opportunities in ESG helps us to be better investors and delivering the investment results our clients expect.

The value of an investment is subject to increases and decreases.  Investors may not recover the amount originally invested. * Data as at 30 September 2023

As at March 29, 2024, CIBC Mellon had more than C$2.8 trillion of assets under administration on behalf of banks, pension funds, investment funds, corporations, governments, insurance companies, foreign insurance trusts, foundations and global financial institutions whose clients invest in Canada. CIBC Mellon is part of the BNY Mellon network, which as at March 29, 2024 had US$48.8 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration. CIBC Mellon is a licensed user of the CIBC trade-mark and certain BNY Mellon trade-marks, is the corporate brand of CIBC Mellon Global Securities Services Company and CIBC Mellon Trust Company, and may be used as a generic term to refer to either or both companies.

Founded in 2015, Equiton is a private equity firm and growing leader in the multi-family residential space.  We offer the Canadian institutional marketplace access to investment- grade real estate through our proven, high-performing investment solutions.

We believe that achieving success in private real estate investing requires a multifaceted perspective. Our extensive knowledge of local markets, a fundamentally grounded due diligence and valuation process, and an ongoing commitment to post-acquisition property management are some of the tenets that underpin our approach. Portfolios are constructed with a risk adjusted return profile objective of capital preservation coupled with income and growth potential across markets and economic cycles.

Fiera Capital Corporation is an independent asset management firm with a growing global presence. We deliver customized multi-asset solutions across public and private market asset classes to institutional, financial intermediary and private wealth clients across North America, Europe and key markets in Asia. We strive to be at the forefront of investment-management science and we are passionate about creating sustainable wealth for clients. At Fiera Capital, we recognize that the investment landscape is constantly evolving. Our teams collaborate and seek to draw on the global industry’s most innovative and diverse offerings to craft strategies that meet the needs of every client, anywhere in the world. We have the ambition to extend our reach globally and the determination to provide the best solutions with excellence. As a public company, we seek to adhere to the highest governance and risk management standards and operate with transparency and integrity to create value for our customers and our shareholders over the long term.

Our purpose is simple: To provide enhanced financial well-being for those who depend on us. We do that by delivering tailored, solutions-oriented private markets exposure with superior investment returns and industry-leading client service. We’re an organization built on over 30 years of client-centricity, candor and authenticity and powered by intellectual rigor and data-driven insight.
Throughout that time, our commitment to serving those who depend on us has remained steadfast, and our focus on growth and transformation – that is, taking advantage of the opportunities afforded by this maturing asset class – has strengthened. Today, we serve 1,550+ institutional and private wealth investors around the world.

Since 2012, the RISE REIT has provided tax efficient exposure (return of capital) to the US Pacific Northwest apartment markets, for Canadian investors. The Firm was founded by Dave Kirzinger, who has a 30+ year career in multi-family real estate. Dave played professional sports and is a Stanford MBA. RISE manages approximately $2.8 billion CAD in apartment assets across both wholly-owned and joint ventures with global institutions. RISE REIT Unitholders & Partners include direct investors, advisors, portfolio managers, family offices, banks & insurance companies and other sources of investment capital. Fund assets are approximately $400 million CAD. RISE owns and manages 36 apartments in the metro/surrounding areas of Seattle, WA & Portland, OR – both cities home to a diversified set of technology, service, manufacturing & healthcare employers. We believe RISE stands out in our industry based on our philosophy & practice to: remain a significant lead investor in our target markets, take measures to value assets realistically, alignment with unitholders, maintain a healthy conservative balance sheet, and to demonstrate institutional-level transparency & accountability to our global joint venture partners and unitholders. Dave Kirzinger, MBA Founder & Board Chair of RISE is based in Victoria, BC and our CEO Barrett Sigmund, MBA is based in Seattle alongside our acquisition, operations, financing and other investment related groups. RISE Sales & Investor Relations teams are based in Toronto.

Figures quoted in the company description are as of January 15, 2024 and are subject to change over time. Units of the RISE REIT are sold by Offering Memorandum.

SLC Management is a global institutional asset manager of Sun Life 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 and 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 four specialty managers: SLC Fixed Income, BentallGreenOak, Crescent Capital Group and InfraRed Capital Partners.

As of March 31, 2024, SLC Management had total assets under management of C$375 billion. For more information, visit www.slcmanagement.com.

Pictet stands as a distinguished private Swiss financial institution with a global presence, including Canada, with USD 761 BN in total AUM or custody as of 31 March 2024. Our range of investment capabilities is pioneering and differentiated. We don’t do everything, rather we focus on the areas where we can add value for our clients. Pictet’s strategic capabilities are thematics & impact investing, quantitative and AI driven solutions, hedge funds and private assets.

Thematics & Impact Investing – Innovation driven by megatrends

Since the 1990s, our innovative thematic equity strategies have offered investors the opportunity to capitalise on the most powerful trends shaping our world. This approach has evolved into high-impact solutions investing in the transition to a sustainable future.

Quantitative and AI driven solutions

We offer evidence-based and scalable products and solutions by leveraging on the power of data & technology to deliver sustainable investment performance.

Hedge Funds- Uncorrelated and risk-focused

Focus on consistent, uncorrelated returns throughout cycles. Each strategy is managed by a highly focused and well-supported portfolio team. Our single-strategy offering spans market-neutral and directional equities as well as relative-value and event-driven fixed income. We have demonstrated uncommon strength in defensive strategies.

Private Assets

Whether in European Real Estate, Private Equity or Private Debt, our private asset franchise effectively utilizes Pictet’s extensive network of 19 offices across Europe and solid reputation with clients. This allows the investment teams to identify and engage in appealing off-market transactions and referrals. These transactions, and our dedicated local teams, bring substantial value to our European private market strategies.

For more information, visit assetmanagement.pictet

About Dawson Partners (“Dawson”)

Dawson is a leading global alternative asset manager focused on providing innovative structured solutions to the private markets. Founded in 2015 as Whitehorse Liquidity Partners, Dawson provides tailored portfolio financing and liquidity solutions to LPs and GPs. Dawson takes a differentiated approach to selecting, curating, structuring, and managing bespoke portfolios to serve the demands of a growing market and seeks to provide its investors unique product offerings. The Firm has US$20 billion of assets under management and has deployed over US$25 billion across more than 240 transactions. Dawson has more than 200 employees and primary offices in Toronto, Canada and London, UK. For more information visit: https//www.dawsonpartners.com.

Trans-Canada Capital (TCC) is an asset management firm specializing in innovative investment strategies for institutional investors. Since 2009, the team has successfully managed the pension assets of Air Canada, one of the largest corporate pension plans in the country. Over the years, we have earned an enviable reputation by generating superior returns through strategies focusing on alpha generation in a rigorous risk-controlled framework. With over C$30 billion in assets under management, more than 90 investment professionals based in Montreal and Toronto, and a complete range of alternative solutions, TCC is well positioned to meet the needs of institutional investors seeking steady returns.

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