HSBC Canada Research Team

Scotia Capital, Inc. (Broker) (Scotia Capital-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Scotia Capital, Inc., a full-service financial services firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm is owned by The Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE, TSE: BNS). Scotia Capital-Broker delivers a broad range of electronic trading products such as high-touch, low-latency, market access and a broad algorithmic trading suite for a wide range of clients globally. They publish monthly indexes to help investors track the performance of Canadian Hedge Funds and Alternative Mutual Funds.

Alida, Inc. develops cloud-based customer intelligence platform. Its services include insight community planning, community management, and community research. The company was founded by Andrew Iain Reid in 2000 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP provides legal advisory services. Its areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, alternative dispute resolution, aviation, communications, competition, construction, and e-commerce law. The firm offers legal advisory services in areas such as pension and employee benefits, products liability, restructuring and insolvency, sports, taxation, structured finance, outsourcing, and securities law. The company was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

The Investment Management Corp. of Ontario (IMCO) is an independent investment firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. IMCO was founded in 2016 to provide comprehensive and value-added investment management and advisory solutions to public-sector clients in Ontario.