Market Opens

Jennifer Mersereau, Senior Partner, Co-Founder & COO, Hamilton ETFs, Patrick Sommerville, Senior Partner, Head of Business Development, Hamilton ETFs, and their team joined Keith Wu, Head, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to open the market and celebrate the launch of the Hamilton U.S. Bond Yield Maximizer ETF (TSX: HBND). Hamilton ETFs is one of Canada's fastest growing ETF managers with over $2.8 billion in assets under management across fourteen ETFs designed to maximize income and growth from trusted sectors, in Canada and across the globe. Hamilton ETFs is also an active commentator on the global financial services sector; the firm's most recent Insights can be found at www.hamiltonetfs.com/insights-commentary.

David Wolf, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hamilton Thorne Ltd.(TSX: HTL) joined Dani Lipkin, Managing Director, Global Innovation Sector, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to open the market and celebrate the Company’s graduation from TSX Venture Exchange to Toronto Stock Exchange. Hamilton Thorne is a leading global provider of precision instruments, consumables, software and services that reduce cost, increase productivity, improve results and enable breakthroughs in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), research, and cell biology markets.

Som Seif, Chief Executive Officer, Purpose Investments Inc., Vlad Tasevski, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product, Purpose Investments Inc. (“Purpose Investments” or “Purpose”), and their team joined Keith Wu, Head, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to close the market and celebrate the 10th anniversary of Purpose ETFs listed on Toronto Stock Exchange. Purpose Investments is an asset management company with more than $17 billion in assets under management. Purpose Investments has an unrelenting focus on client-centric innovation and offers a range of managed and quantitative investment products. Purpose Investments is led by well-known entrepreneur Som Seif and is a division of Purpose Unlimited, an independent technology-driven financial services company.

Darryl White, Chief Executive Officer, BMO Financial Group, Dan Barclay, Chief Executive Officer, BMO Capital Markets, Levent Kahraman, Co-Head of BMO Global Markets, along with Camilla Sutton, Managing Director & Head of BMO Equity Research Canada & UK and BMO colleagues joined Rizwan Awan, Head of TMX Markets, Products and Services and President, Equity Trading, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to open the market and celebrate the 19th annual BMO Equity Through Education trading day. Each year, BMO donates all North American and European institutional equity commissions from one day of trading to select charitable organizations helping diverse, bright, deserving students in support of their post-secondary educational ambitions. Since inception, almost C$30 million has been donated to help over 5,000 students achieve their potential through scholarships, bursaries, mentoring and leadership development.