Private Markets Forum 2026

April 27 – 29, 2026
Four Seasons Hotel, Montréal QC

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AXA Investment Managers

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Schroders capital

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AllianceBernstein

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Aviva Investors

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Arjun Infrastructure

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Ares Management

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Baillie Gifford

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BlackRock

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Fidelity Canada Institutional

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Forum Asset Management

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Franklin Templeton

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HarbourVest

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J.P Morgan Asset Management

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M&G Investments

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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners

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SLC Management

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Breakfast Sponsors

Area One Farms

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Tikehau Capital

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Lunch Sponsor

Canadian Urban Limited

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Pictet Asset Management

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Ardian

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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

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We are one of the largest investment management firms in the world, with $875 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2026. We foster a diverse, connected, collaborative culture that encourages different ways of thinking and differentiated insights. We embrace innovation to address increasingly complex investing challenges. We pursue responsibility throughout our firm—from how we work and act to the solutions we design for clients.

Diverse Needs…Diverse Solutions

We work closely with clients to define and achieve their financial goals. As markets and needs evolve, we provide global perspective, independent research and investment discipline. Every client, everywhere, can benefit from access to our firm’s full resources. Today, our investment strategies span all markets and asset classes— creating a diverse and strategic balance of global services.

  • Fixed Income: We bring together innovative research and forward-looking perspective across our suite of global, regional, multi-sector and single- sector fixed-income services to solve our clients’ most complex and unique investment challenges.
  • Equities: Driven by distinctive research insights, we provide a comprehensive suite of equity strategies across geographies, capitalization ranges and investment styles—each focused on achieving outcomes that matter to our clients.
  • Multi-Asset: We design and deliver a full range of integrated, dynamic multi-asset solutions tailored to the needs of each client, helping keep them ahead of the evolving investment landscape.
  • Alternatives: Bringing together independent agility and institutional strength, we provide nontraditional investments and strategies to help diversify portfolios with new sources of risk and return.

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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.

Arjun Infrastructure is an independent infrastructure asset management firm founded in 2015, with over €7.8 billion of AUM and offices in London and Paris. Arjun focuses on European core and core-plus mid-market infrastructure, diversified by sector and geography, and provides access through funds and separately managed accounts.
Arjun invests in essential infrastructure that supports society across digital, renewables, transport, utilities, and circular economy. With a disciplined approach to asset selection, Arjun targets assets with stable cash flows in sectors with high barriers to entry.
Arjun’s team of around 40 includes professionals with prior senior operational experience at major infrastructure operators. The firm maintains a strong focus on sustainability as part of its long-term, responsible asset management approach.

Baillie Gifford manages assets for over 50 Canadian clients. The firm has been in business for more than 110 years and is one of the leading privately owned investment management firms in the UK.

We have been managing money for Canadian clients for over 30 years and provide a variety of international, emerging markets, global, and private equity portfolios for public and corporate pension plans in Canada, as well as a variety of non-pension sponsors.

The success of the firm has been largely built on the simple foundations of good performance, good service and low staff turnover. Independent ownership allows us to focus on the key areas of investment performance and proactive client service. Our partnership structure fosters stability and loyalty in our people and as investment management is our only business, we have no conflicts of interest, which gives an extra clear focus to our clients’ needs.

Our structure combines the best of experience and international comparison. We believe that our analysis of individual businesses has added the most value for our clients. Our investors scour the world in search of new stock ideas. We spend much more time with academics and entrepreneurs than we do looking at traditional sources of investment research. We believe our approach will stand us in good stead as we embark on our second century of investment management for leading institutional clients.

*As of December 2025

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.
Research Excellence

We have the experience to develop the investment solutions that are right for you.

Forum is an investor, developer and asset manager operating across North America for over 30 years, focusing on real estate, private equity and infrastructure. We are committed to creating value that benefits our stakeholders and the communities in which we invest, delivering what we call Extraordinary Outcomes. The enterprise value of our assets under management currently exceeds $3.8 billion. Our investments have attracted a number of top investors. We’re proud to have delivered in the top tier of alternative asset returns since 2002, while positively impacting over 25,000+ lives.

Franklin Templeton is a global investment management organization serving clients in over 165 countries. Everything Franklin Templeton does has a single focus: to deliver better client outcomes through investment management expertise, wealth management and technology solutions. The company is made up of diverse and independent specialist investment managers that are entrepreneurial and practice true specialization. Through its specialist investment managers, the company brings extensive capabilities in equity, fixed income, multi-asset solutions and alternatives. The Investment teams are backed by global resources for analytics, sustainable investing capabilities, and risk management. With offices in more than 30 countries and approximately 1,300 investment professionals, the California-based company has 75 years of investment experience and over US$1.5 trillion (over CAN$1.9 trillion) in assets under management as of December 31, 2021. Franklin Templeton aims to offer the best of both worlds: global strength and boutique specialization. For more information, please visit franklintempleton.ca and connect with Franklin Templeton on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and read the Beyond Bulls & Bears blog.

HarbourVest is a private markets firm with 40+ years of experience and insight, with interwoven skills across asset classes, and relationships that build futures.
We have been investing for four decades across primary, secondary, direct co-investments, infrastructure and real assets, and private credit. We partner strategically to find opportunities based on our core strengths. Our partners, and our people, come first.

At J.P. Morgan Asset Management, we believe investors deserve an expert global partner they can trust to step up and deliver strong outcomes. From the largest institutional investors around the world to financial advisors around the corner, our clients rely on the power of perspective to help build stronger portfolios and solve their toughest challenges. Our perspective draws on knowledge earned over a century of investing through every market cycle. Today, with market intelligence trusted the world over, we offer deep, actionable insights. From our vantage point, we strive to see correlations others miss and seize opportunities that our global, connected view can deliver. Through our fully ESG-integrated investment platform, enhanced investment stewardship, and range of ESG-focused strategies, we invest for sustainable return in a sustainable world. Our clients trust us to manage $2.9 trillion in assets to secure what matters most to the individuals, families, companies, and communities they serve. To make the most of retirements. To help protect endowments. To strengthen returns. To enjoy hard-earned success. To any challenge our clients face, we say, Let’s Solve It.

M&G Investments is a global asset manager that offers an extensive range of active investment strategies across public and private markets. Since launching Europe’s first-ever mutual fund in 1931, we’ve consistently relied on original thinking, taking the long view and focusing on long-term value. We’re recognised for our expertise in equities, fixed income, private markets and multi-asset solutions. With a global network of investment experts spanning different assets classes, we’re able to draw on in-depth research and expertise to find attractive opportunities around the world. Investment teams work collaboratively, sharing ideas and insights, which can reveal new investment opportunities and fuel innovation. We call this Intelligence Connected. We aim to be a trusted partner to clients wherever they are in the world, delivering valuable insights and solutions that help them meet their investment goals. We’re part of M&G plc.

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 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.

Area One Farms is Canada’s largest independent farmland investment manager. The firm manages over C$750 million of assets through five funds and over 200,000 acres of Canadian farmland. Area One partners with farmers to expand their farms, jointly acquiring and managing farmland. The firm delivers value to investors through annual crop-based income and long-term capital growth driven by land appreciation and improvement. Area One’s mandate delivers strong social and environmental impact outcomes, supporting farmers in achieving long-term land ownership while promoting regenerative farming practices. www.areaonefarms.ca

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.

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

Pictet Asset Management

For more than two centuries, Pictet has been a distinguished private Swiss financial institution, evolving into a global leader with a presence in key markets, including Canada since 1974. Serving both private clients and institutional investors, our business is investment-led, centered around a long-term perspective and a dedication to exceptional client service. We take a forward-thinking and pragmatic approach to investing. As industry leaders, we are committed to staying at the forefront of investment standards and continuously enhance our processes with cutting-edge technology and, when relevant, integrate the latest scientific research into our investment process.

As long-term investors, we aim to direct capital to the real economy in a manner that improves the state of the planet. We achieve this by building responsible partnerships with our clients and the companies in which we invest. Our dedication goes beyond financial returns. We are passionate about our role as investors, actively managing our stewardship activities and engaging with the wider industry to elevate investment standards and practices. Pictet aims to deliver exceptional investment performance while maintaining a steadfast commitment to excellence and integrity in every aspect of our work. Our range of investment capabilities is pioneering and differentiated. We focus on the areas where we can add value for our clients which includes: Thematics & Specialist Equities – innovation and megatrend, investing since the 1990s; Emerging Markets – a deep and broad knowledge, investing since the mid-1980s; European Private Assets – Real Estate, Private Equity and Private Debt; and Hedge Funds – Uncorrelated and risk-focused.

Pictet has a long history in Canada with a presence spanning over 50 years. We are actively involved in diverse initiatives, including our commitment as an international sponsor to Climate Engagement Canada (CEC), a Canadian finance-led effort that drives dialogue between the financial community and corporate issuers to promote a just transition to a net-zero economy. We would welcome the opportunity to have a conversation with you and your firm. For more information, visit assetmanagement.pictet

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Twitter: @PictetAM

Contact Information
François Forget fforget@pictet.com
(514) 518-8587

Laila Danechi ldanechi@pictet.com
(514) 294-2345

Date as 31 December 2024

Disclaimer: This marketing document is issued by Pictet Asset Management. Any investment incurs risks, including the risk of not getting back amounts initially invested. The information or data contained in this document does not constitute an offer or solicitation to buy, sell or subscribe for securities or other financial instruments. Pictet AM Inc is registered as an Exempt Market Dealer in Canada and is authorized to conduct marketing activities on behalf of Pictet Asset Management Limited (Pictet AM Ltd), Pictet Asset Management SA (Pictet AM SA) and Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA).

In a world of constant evolution, Ardian stands out for its ability to anticipate, adapt, and turn challenges into opportunities. As a global, diversified private markets firm with 20 offices and more than 350 investment professionals worldwide, we provide investment and customized solutions that reflect new economic dynamics and help our clients remain resilient in a changing world.
We deliver multi-local expertise and long-term performance for our investors and partners as well as shared value for the broader society. Since Ardian’s inception in 1996, our pioneering approach to diversification and our ability to offer tailor-made solutions at scale have remained the heart of our strategy.

Through commitment, knowledge and technology, we bring lasting value to our companies and contribute positively to the whole industry.
Ardian currently manages or advises $196bn for more than 1,890 clients worldwide across Private Equity, Real Assets, and Credit.
Ardian. Mastering change for lasting value.
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