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• Zainul Ali
Zainul is a senior asset consultant with Towers Perrin. Prior to this position,
he held the job of vice-president, strategic research and risk management
at OMERS and before that, treasurer for a large public sector organization.
Zainul is a certified general accountant (CGA)
and a chartered financial analyst (CFA). back to top
• Andrew Ang
Andrew is associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School. He specializes in empirical asset pricing and applications of
econometrics to financial problems. Andrew’s work focuses on macro
modeling of the term structure, asset allocation, and the predictability of
stock returns. He is an associate editor of the Review of Financial
Studies, a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic
Research and is the recipient of several grants, including grants from the
National Science Foundation, Q-Group, INQUIRE-Europe and INQUIRE-UK. back to top
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Don is editor of Benefit Canada and provides overall editorial
direction on Benefits
Canada, Canadian Healthcare
Manager and Gestion Santé magazines.
Don joined the Rogers Publishing Healthcare and Financial Services
Group in April 2000 and has led the editorial team at Canadian Healthcare Manager
magazine for the past four years. He holds a master’s of journalism degree
from Carleton University
and a bachelor of arts degree from the University
of Waterloo. back to top
• Dexton Blackstock
Dexton is vice-president and director of State Street Global Markets
Canada Inc. In addition to his responsibilities for the marketing and sales
of transition management services to both fund sponsors and investment
consultants, he is also involved in investment portfolio analysis and
management of the brokerage's daily trading activities. Prior to joining State Street, Dexton was part of the institutional
fixed income sales and trading team at a major broker/dealer; before that,
he managed the fixed income department at CT Securities' discount
brokerage. Dexton holds a bachelor of commerce
degree from the University of Calgary and is a CFA. back to top
• Alex Bodnarchuk
Alex is responsible for
administration of three defined benefit and one defined contribution plan
for the city of Saskatoon. He assists and advises plan trustees in all aspects of these
plans. back to top
• Steve Bonnar
Steve is a principal in the Toronto office of Towers Perrin. He has an extensive background in
actuarial and employee benefit consulting, having assisted a wide variety of
employers in the design, administration, communication, financing and
investment of their pension plans. In his role, he manages large client
relationships, has responsibilities for retirement financial management in Canada, and is a frequent speaker on pension financing issues. Most
recently he has co-authored Towers Perrin’s White Paper on how to
rejuvenate Canada’s pension system to accommodate the realities of the 21st
Century. Steve is a fellow of both the Canadian Institute of Actuaries and
the Society of Actuaries. He also has his CFA designation. back to top
• Andrew Branion
Andrew is a Director in the
Capital Markets Group at Scotia Capital. His responsibilities include
providing structured derivative solutions to Canadian Institutional
Investors. Andrew joined Scotia Capital in 1997, after having worked at the
Bank of Canada, and has a MBA (finance) from the University of Toronto. back to top
• Mike
Brooks
Mike graduated with a bachelor
of science in actuarial mathematics and statistics from Heriot-Watt University in 1991. He joined Baillie Gifford in 2000 and is head of
investment risk. Prior to that, he was head of quantitative research at Aegon Asset Management. Mike is a fellow of the Faculty
of Actuaries and chaired the U.K. actuarial profession’s working party on investment risk for
three years. back to top
• Rajan Burney
Rajan is director, institutional
investments at Fidelity Investments Canada. In this role, he is responsible
for the implementation and servicing of defined benefit clients in Canada. Prior to joining Fidelity in 1999 as
senior fund analyst, Rajan was an analyst with
SEI Investments’ asset consulting practice in Toronto. In this role, he was
responsible for the performance and analysis of pension, endowment, and
foundation assets of plan sponsors and portfolios managed by primarily
institutional investment managers. Rajan earned
his bachelor of commerce in finance and international business and his MBA
from McGill University. He has nine years
experience in the investment management industry. back to top
• Duncan Burrill
Duncan recently joined the CBC
Pension Fund as the senior manager, risk management. Prior to this, he was involved in
financial and asset management at the Canadian Red Cross Society.
Originally from Australia, Duncan holds both an accounting
designation and an MBA. back to top
• Michael Butera
Michael is general manager,
external portfolios and risk management for the pension investment division
at Canada Post Corporation. His responsibilities include investment policy,
manager structure and risk management. Prior to joining Canada Post,
Michael was an asset management consultant for over 13 years. He serves on
the investment advisory committee of FSCO and is a graduate of Brock
University (BBA). back to top
• John Chase
John is a vice-president and
member of the institutional marketing team at Lazard
Asset Management LLC. He has been working in the investment field since
1992; before joining Lazard in 1997, John was a
turnaround management consultant and an advisor to governments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia regarding
enterprise redevelopment, privatization and anti-monopoly. He speaks
Russian and received an MPA in international economics from Columbia University, an MBA in entrepreneurship from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and a BA from Saint Anselm College. back to top
• William Daley
Bill
is a director of Lazard Asset Management LLC and
is based in the firm's main office in New York. He is responsible for Lazard's institutional clients in Canada, South
Africa and for select clients in
the United
States. He has over 20 years of
experience in the investment business. Bill received a BSFS from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, an MBA from New York University's Graduate School of
Business Administration, and has received the CFA charter. back to top
• Leo de Bever
Leo
is executive vice-president, global investment management, responsible for
building MFC Global’s asset management
business both in Canada and abroad. He is also
responsible for the management of MFC Global’s
North American equity and alternative asset investments including
structured debt products, real estate, oil and gas, and timber and
agriculture. He joined MFC Global in 2004, with almost 30 years of
experience in the financial services industry. Before joining MFC Global,
Leo was senior vice-president, research and economics for the Ontario
Teachers’ Pension Plan. Leo’s educational background includes a
BA in economics from the University of Oregon, and both an MA and a PhD
in economics from the University of Wisconsin. back to top
• Réal Desrochers
Réal Desrochers is Director of Alternative
Investments for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the third largest public pension fund in the United States. The portfolio invests in a
variety of private equity partnerships including buyout, venture capital
and distressed debt funds throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Prior to joining CalSTRS, Mr. Desrochers managed the international private equity
portfolio for CDP Capital, Canada’s largest pension fund.
He is active on the boards and advisory committees of a number of
the world’s largest private equity and leading Venture Capital firms.
Mr. Desrochers holds an MBA and a
Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Laval University. He obtained a degree in
food technology from St. Hyacinthe Institute of
Agricultural Technology in Canada. He has attended executive
courses at INSEAD, Wharton University and California University. Mr. Desrochers is a member of the CFA
Institute and is a member of the California Nano
Systems Institute (CNSI) Venture Capital Advisory Board. back to top
• Fred Dopfel
Fred Dopfel
is responsible for providing thought leadership on investment issues and a
broad range of advisory services to BGI’s
strategic partner clients. He has advised many of the world’s leading
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