Maple Financial Group Inc. is a Canadian-based global financial services company specializing in market neutral strategies in global securities and derivative markets. The firm's distinctive perspective and business model has enabled us to offer financial institutions, corporations, pension fund sponsors, endowments and individual clients customized products combining market neutral investment strategies with low exposure to credit and market risk.

Independent since 1997, Maple was founded in 1986 as the Financial Products Group of First Marathon Inc., a leading Canadian Investment Bank. Since 1986, Maple has consistently shown a profit in every quarter with positive results through numerous periods of market turbulence.

A division of Maple, Maple Financial Alternative Investments was established in 1999 to design innovative investment vehicles seeking to provide attractive returns with low risk and diversification from equity and bond markets. Maple Financial Alternative Investments provides alternative perspectives on wealth management not available from traditional financial advisers.

Maple operates with over $300 million of shareholders' capital, $17 billion in assets and over 400 employees in offices in Toronto, Frankfurt, London, New York, Milan, Amsterdam and Sydney. Significant shareholders include National Bank of Canada (24%) and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (27%). In addition to local regulatory regulation of its operating divisions, Maple is subject to global regulatory reporting requirements of the Bundesanstalt fŸr Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin - the German Financial Supervisory Authority).