GE Asset Management Canada Company (GEAMC) was established in 2000 with the formation of our Canadian equity portfolio management team.

GEAMC is wholly owned by GE Asset Management Incorporated and is responsible for managing GEAM's Canadian Equity strategy and providing investment services to investors in the Canadian Provinces and Territories.

Our fundamental, research driven investment style seeks to provide consistent, risk-adjusted returns with a long-term investment perspective. We are a multi-product investment firm with broad asset class coverage, including Canadian Equities, U.S. & International Equities, Real Estate and Private Equity. We offer a variety of investment vehicles including separate accounts, pooled trusts and partnerships.

With over 450 employees worldwide we have offices in Canada (Montreal and Mississauga), the United States and Europe. Clients served include: corporations, public funds, sub-advised relationships, foundations and endowments.

GEAM believes in investing in its people and employs top professionals. We have a stable, seasoned investment team with an average of 16 years of investment management experience.

In addition to GEAM's premier investment options and services, we offer our clients several unique advantages:

• Plan Sponsor Experience
  GE was one of the first firms to introduce a pension plan to its employees and has developed a keen insight into the needs of plan sponsors around the world.
  
  
• Alignment of Interests for Investment Success
  Client assets are invested side-by-side with those of the GE Pension Trust, enabling all of our clients to benefit from GEAM's seven decades of asset management experience.
  
  
• The GE Global Network**
  GE's global business network provides investment managers with access to hands-on, real-time information on economic conditions, industries, market trends, and company insights worldwide.
  
  
• Six Sigma-Commitment to Quality
  As part of GE, we share a corporate passion for learning, collecting and sharing information, for relentlessly searching for a better way to optimize long-term performance and deliver the highest level of client service. This passion is demonstrated throughout GE by the pursuit of Six Sigma quality standards, a rigorous measurement of product and service excellence.

PLEASE NOTE: GE Asset Management Canada (GEAMC), GE Asset Management Incorporated (GEAMI), and GE Asset Management Limited (GEAML) function together as a team and are collectively known as GEAM. Except where indicated, information herein refers to the collective GEAM.

**GEAM does not seek material, non-public information from the GE Global Network or any other source and would take appropriate action were suchinformation to be received.