Sponsors - Private Markets Forum

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.

At AXA Investment Managers (“AXA IM”) our purpose is to act for human progress by investing for what matters. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long-term to help our clients, our people and the world to prosper. Our ambition is to be the world’s leading responsible asset manager. Our conviction-led approach enables us to uncover what we believe to be the best global investment opportunities across alternative and core asset classes. We are already entrusted with more than €887 billion in assets. Working as part of the AXA Group, a world leader in financial protection, our team of over 2,400 people around the world combine a range of specialist skills and experience to best serve the needs of our clients. The combination of responsible, active and long-term defines our investment philosophy, but also how we run our business, what underpins our clients’ partnerships with us, and what drives our people. AXA IM Prime (“Prime”) is the Private Markets Enabler and Hedge Funds platform of AXA IM. Through partnerships with best-in-class Private Fund Managers and Institutions, AXA IM Prime provides a comprehensive range of commingled and tailormade investment solutions designed to meet the needs of a broad range of investors and support long-term sustainable growth. We offer diversified sources of Private Market returns through primaries, secondaries, co-investments, as well as NAV financing and GP* minority stakes solutions across private equity, infrastructure equity, private debt and hedge funds. AXA IM Prime oversees circa €39bn** of assets.

(*) NAV: Net Asset value, GP : General Partners

(**) Sources: AXA IM as of 31/12/2024

Schroders Capital offers investors access to a diverse suite of private asset opportunities, managing over $111 billion* in assets. Our specialized teams combine deep expertise in private markets with the global scale and resources of a leading asset manager. We provide investors with access to Real Estate, Infrastructure, Private Equity, and Private Debt & Credit Alternatives worldwide. Our approach unlocks investments typically hard to source elsewhere, while maintaining broad capabilities across private asset classes for our clients.
As of June 30, 2025, source: Schroders Capital

BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) is the investment arm of BNP Paribas, a leading banking group in Europe with international reach. BNPP AM aims to generate long-term sustainable investment returns for its clients, based on a unique sustainability-driven philosophy. BNPP AM’s investment capabilities are focused around five key strategies: High Conviction Strategies, Private Debt & Real Assets, Multi-Asset, Quantitative & Solutions (MAQS), Emerging markets and Liquidity Solutions, with investment processes incorporating quantitative and fundamental analysis.

Sustainability is embedded within BNPP AM’s strategy and investment decision-making. Among the leaders in thematic investment in Europe, BNPP AM contributes to the energy transition, environmental sustainability and the promotion of equality and inclusive growth. BNPP AM currently manages EUR 501 Billion. BNPP AM benefits from the expertise of around 500 investment professionals and around 400 client servicing specialists, serving individual, corporate and institutional clients in 69 countries.

Source: BNPP AM, as at 31 December 2022

For more information please visit bnpparibas-am.com

CIBC Mellon is a Canadian company exclusively focused on the investment servicing needs of Canadian institutional investors and international institutional investors into Canada. As at December 31, 2024, CIBC Mellon had more than C$3 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. www.cibcmellon.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. 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.

At Franklin Templeton, we provide access to a US$250+ billion private markets investment platform backed by specialist investment managers with deep expertise in their respective domain. Our alternatives platform extends beyond traditional investments covering an expansive footprint and specialized capabilities across asset classes, structures and investment outcomes. From private equity to private debt, venture capital, real estate and more, we offer a comprehensive range of alternative investment solutions. Today we are among the world’s largest asset managers with offices in major financial markets, serving clients in more than 150 countries, and managing nearly $1.54 trillion in assets*. (*AUM is in USD as of 30 April 2025)

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.

Brief MAM overview and strategy offerings
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) is a leading global asset manager, trusted by institutions, individuals and communities to responsibly manage US$4911 billion in assets. MAM provides clients with a diverse range of investment solutions that seek to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns.
We combine a long-term perspective with deep sector expertise and offer a diverse range of investment capabilities. The portfolios we manage are positioned to benefit from major structural drivers of growth, change, and opportunity across developed and emerging markets.
MAM is the asset management division of the Macquarie Group, a global financial services group. Macquarie Group is a diversified financial group providing clients with asset management, finance, banking, advisory, and risk and capital solutions across debt, equity and commodities.
1 All figures as at 31 December 2025.

Ninepoint Partners manages unique alternative investment solutions that offer investors the benefits of better diversification. We target investment strategies that are uncorrelated from traditional asset classes, with the goal of lowering overall portfolio risk. Ninepoint Institutional Partners, a division of Ninepoint Partners LP, works with Canadian Pension Plans, Foundations, Endowments, Insurance Companies, Family Offices, and other Institutional investors to provide comprehensive alternative investment management solutions. With over $8 billion (CAD) in assets and institutional contracts and 90 employees, we are among the largest independent asset management firms in Canada. Ninepoint is the Canadian partner of Monroe Capital, a U.S. based private credit asset management firm, specializing in direct lending and opportunistic private credit investing. Monroe Capital is sub-advisor to the Ninepoint-Monroe U.S. Private Debt Fund and Ninepoint Institutional Partners is the exclusive distributor of Monroe’s private credit strategies in Canada.

Monroe Capital LLC, with approximately $15.9 billion (USD) of committed and managed capital as of December 31, 2022, is a premier boutique asset management firm specializing in private credit markets across various strategies, including direct lending, asset-based lending, specialty finance, opportunistic and structured credit, and equity. Since 2004, the firm has been successfully providing capital solutions to clients in the U.S. and Canada. Monroe prides itself on being a value-added and user-friendly partner to business owners, management, and both private equity and independent sponsors. Monroe’s platform offers a wide variety of investment products for both institutional and high net worth investors with a focus on generating high quality “alpha” returns irrespective of business or economic cycles.

Since 1998, PCCP, LLC has been providing commercial real estate debt and equity capital for middle-market real estate projects throughout the United States. PCCP has managed, Raised or invested over US$41.6bn of institutional capital and continues to pursue investment opportunities with proven operators. PCCP originates and manages all of its investments, providing capital for all major real estate product types. PCCP invests across the capital stack, from joint venture equity to senior and mezzanine debt, while seeking to identify the best risk-adjusted returns for our investors. With over US$24.2bn Assets Under Management
, PCCP is an established fiduciary for its global investors, with offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Learn more about PCCP at www.pccpllc.com

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners is a ‘value add’ investment manager with a specialist focus on the energy transformation, across low carbon and renewable energy supply, storage, grid stability, data centre, industrial and supply chain decarbonisation and related assets and businesses.

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 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 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.

Tikehau Capital is a global alternative asset management Group with €51.0 billion of assets under management (as of 30 June 2025). Tikehau Capital has developed a wide range of expertise across four asset classes (credit, real assets, private equity and capital markets strategies) as well as multi-asset and special opportunities strategies. Tikehau Capital is a founder-led team with a differentiated business model, a strong balance sheet, proprietary global deal flow and a track record of backing high quality companies and executives. Deeply rooted in the real economy, Tikehau Capital provides bespoke and innovative alternative financing solutions to companies it invests in and seeks to create long-term value for its investors, while generating positive impacts on society. Leveraging its strong equity base (€3.1 billion of shareholders’ equity as of 30 June 2025), the Group invests its own capital alongside its investor-clients within each of its strategies. Controlled by its managers alongside leading institutional partners, Tikehau Capital is guided by a strong entrepreneurial spirit and DNA, shared by its 735 employees (as of 30 June 2025) across its 17 offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. Tikehau Capital is listed in compartment A of the regulated Euronext Paris market (ISIN code: FR0013230612; Ticker: TKO.FP). For more information, please visit: www.tikehaucapital.com.

Fidelity Canada Institutional serves a diversified client base across all major asset classes, focusing on corporate and public defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, MEPPS and financial institutions. Built on over 50 years of serving the needs of institutional investors worldwide, we offer active and risk-controlled disciplines including; Canadian, U.S., international and global equity, fixed-income, asset allocation, real estate and custom solutions.

Philosophy and Approach
The cornerstone of our investment philosophy is the belief that outstanding research drives results.
We believe in fundamental bottom-up research that is focused on identifying opportunities that offer stable growth through an investment cycle. Combined with prudent risk management and portfolio construction expertise, this allows us to offer best-in-class solutions aligned with our clients’ interests.
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We have the experience to develop the investment solutions that are right for you.

Canadian Urban Limited is an independently owned, fully integrated Canadian real estate investment and asset management firm with over 50 years of operating history. The firm invests in mid-market industrial, retail, office, and multi-family assets across Canada on behalf of institutional investors, including pensions, endowments, foundations, and family offices. Institutional-grade governance, disciplined underwriting, and active asset management underpin Canadian Urban’s long-term focus on alignment, capital stewardship, and consistent risk-adjusted returns.

www.canadianurban.com

GCM Grosvenor(Nasdaq: GCMG) is a global alternative asset management solutions provider with approximately $76 billion in assets under management across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and absolute return investment strategies. The firm has specialized in alternatives for more than 50 years and is dedicated to delivering value for clients by leveraging its cross-asset class and flexible investment platform.

GCM Grosvenor’s experienced team of approximately 540 professionals serves a global client base of institutional and high net worth investors. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney.

GCM Grosvenor manages approximately $6 billion in real estate investments through a flexible investment platform to provide differentiated exposure for our clients’ real estate portfolios. Our dedicated team leverages broad connectivity throughout the real estate industry to source opportunistic middle market investments, in conjunction with both established real estate operators and investors launching new platforms. The team leverages its experience across property types, regions, and the capital stack to find creative ways to execute investments including via co-investments, joint ventures, and seeding arrangements.

For more information, visit: gcmgrosvenor.com.

Founded in Geneva in 1805, Pictet is a globally recognized independent leader in wealth and asset management, with a network of 31 offices worldwide, including a proud presence in Canada since 1974. Managing over USD 950 billion* in assets, Pictet provides a distinctive range of innovative investment solutions, focusing on areas where we create the most value for our clients. Our expertise spans thematic and specialist equities, emerging markets, European private assets, and hedge funds, offering tailored strategies designed to meet the diverse and evolving needs of investors.

With more than two centuries of experience, Pictet seamlessly blends forward-looking innovation with deep global market expertise to help clients navigate complexity and achieve their financial goals. Anchored by a commitment to excellence, independence, and a long-term perspective, Pictet is dedicated to building lasting partnerships and delivering sustainable value for clients, while preserving and growing wealth for generations to come.

Private Markets Forum 2023

April 24 - 26, 2023
Omni Hotel Mont-Royal, Montréal QC

Gold Sponsor

Aviva Investors

AXA INvestment managers

Schroder Investment Management

Silver Sponsors

BNP Paribas Asset Management

CIBC MELLON

Cortland Credit

Fiera Capital

Franklin Templeton

Hamilton Lane

Macquarie Asset Management

Ninepoint

PCCP LLC

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners

SLC MANAGEMENT

Tikehau Capital

Bronze Sponsors

Fidelity Institutional canada

Canadian Urban Limited

GCM Grosvenor

Pictet Asset Management