Gaelen Morphet

CIBC Asset Management, Inc. (CIBC AM) is a Canadian asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1972 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE, TSE: CM), a publicly traded Canadian chartered bank. CIBC AM manages assets on behalf of institutional, high-net-worth clients and underlying investors in their retail sponsored products.

Precious Metals & Mining Trust is a closed-end investment trust. Its investment objective is to provide unitholders long-term capital appreciation and monthly cash distributions through investing in a portfolio consisting primarily of equity securities of mining issuers that are listed on a North American stock exchange. The company was founded on May 29, 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Founded in 1959, AMI Partners, Inc. is an investment advisor located in Toronto, Ontario with additional offices in Vancouver and Montreal. The firm manages assets for assets for pension funds, endowments, foundations, government agencies, mutual funds, insurance companies, charitable funds and high net-worth individuals and families.

1832 Asset Management LP (1832 AM) is a Canadian asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm does business as Scotia Global Asset Management and is a subsidiary of Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE, TSX: BNS). In 2013, another BNS subsidiary, GCIC Ltd. underwent an internal consolidation and transferred its asset management business to 1832 AM. In 2008, through a reorganization by the Bank of Nova Scotia, Scotia Asset Management came to encompass the Scotia Funds, the asset management programs that had been run by the bank's brokerage arm Scotia McLeod and Scotia Cassels Investment Counsel Ltd. 1832 AM offers a broad range of investment solutions to meet the diverse needs of clients across all levels of wealth in Canada and around the world.

Sentry Investments Corp. (Sentry), formerly Sentry Select Capital Management, is an investment advisor headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and was founded in 1997. The firm was acquired by CI Investments Inc. on October 2017. Sentry Select manages the Sentry Select family of mutual funds and portfolios of junior and intermediate oil and gas company shares for several affiliated flow-through limited partnerships.

The Empire Life Insurance Co. (Investment Portfolio) (Empire Life-IP) is the investment portfolio division of The Empire Life Insurance Co., a life insurance and financial services company headquartered in Kingston, Ontario. Founded in 1923, the firm offers life insurance, investment products and employee benefits. Empire Life-IP manages the client's investment portfolio.