Market Opens

Fred Pinto, CFA, ICD.D, Chief Executive Officer, CFA Society Toronto (“CFA” or the “Society”), with board members and members of CFA Society Toronto’s newest CFA® Charterholders, joined Omar Khafagy, CFA, Head, Client Success, Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) and TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV”) to close the market and celebrate the Society's 90th anniversary. CFA Society Toronto is the world's largest Society of CFA® Charterholders, dedicated to supporting the professional and business development of more than 11,500 members. With a focus on education, networking, and thought leadership, CFA Society Toronto empowers finance and investment professionals to thrive at every stage of their careers. Founded in 1936, CFA Society Toronto is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with CFA Institute, the global body that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) curriculum and sets voluntary, ethics-based performance-reporting standards for the investment industry.

Kathy Bock, Managing Director and Head of Vanguard Americas (“Vanguard” or the “Company”) and her team, joined Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), to open the market and celebrate the launch of the Company’s three new ETF products: Vanguard Developed ex-North America Dividend Appreciation Index ETF (TSX: VIGG), Vanguard U.S. High Dividend Yield Index ETF (CAD-hedged) (TSX: VUDH), Vanguard U.S. High Dividend Yield Index ETF (TSX: VUDV). Vanguard Canada is one of Canada’s largest ETF providers with 39 Canadian ETFs and 10 mutual funds currently available. With 15 years in the Canadian market, Vanguard is one of the largest investment management companies in the world, managing $12.3 Trillion (CAD $16.7 Trillion) in assets to its more than 50 million investors worldwide. Canadians benefit from Vanguard’s stability and experience, low-cost investing, and client focus.

Dennis Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Starlight Capital (the “Company”), and his team, joined Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") to open the market and celebrate the Company’s new listing of the Global Real Assets Trust's (the "Trust") 6.85% Cumulative Redeemable Series 1 Preferred Units (TSX: GLRA.PR.A). The Trust's investment objective is to provide unitholders with cash distributions and long-term capital appreciation through exposure to institutional quality real assets in the global real estate and global infrastructure sectors, and to a lesser extent, the global diversified equity sector. Starlight Capital is an independent Canadian asset management firm managing Global and North American diversified private and public equity investments across traditional and alternative asset classes, including real estate, infrastructure and private equity.

Beverly Chandler, Managing Editor, ETF Express, joined Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), and the winners of the 2026 Canadian ETF Express Awards to close the market. The popular ETF Express awards’ series launched in Europe in 2010, expanded to the US in 2019 and 2026 will be the fourth year that the awards will be presented to Canadian ETF industry participants. This year the event is being hosted by the Toronto Stock Exchange, home of the world’s first ETF. The ETF issuer awards are based on data from ETF Express’s data partner, Trackinsight, while the ETF service provider awards are based on a nomination process. Both issuers and service providers are then put through a qualitative process of peer voting which results in the firms with the most votes winning the awards. ETF Express is one of the oldest publications focused on the flourishing global ETF industry. Launched in the UK in 2006, ETF Express is a daily, live, digital service, bringing you news, features, interviews and analysis in real time on this vibrant industry.