Market Opens

Prerna Mathews, Vice President, ETF Product Strategy, Mackenzie Investments (“Mackenzie”), and the Mackenzie executive team, joined Keith Wu, Head of Exchange Traded Products at Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), to open the market and celebrate the launch of Mackenzie’s four new ETFs: Mackenzie Global Value ETF (TSX: MAGV), Mackenzie US Value ETF (TSX: MAUV), Mackenzie GQE Global Balanced ETF (TSX: MBQG), Mackenzie US All Cap Growth ETF (TSX: MAUG). Mackenzie is a Canadian investment management firm with approximately $246 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2026. Mackenzie seeks to create a more invested world by delivering strong investment performance and offering innovative portfolio solutions and related services to more than one million retail and institutional clients through multiple distribution channels. Founded in 1967, it is a global asset manager with offices across Canada as well as in Beijing, Boston, Dublin, Hong Kong and London. Mackenzie is a member of IGM Financial Inc. (TSX: IGM), part of the Power Corporation group of companies and one of Canada’s leading diversified wealth and asset management organizations with approximately $316 billion in total assets under management and advisement as of January 31, 2026.

The BlackRock Canada team (“BlackRock”), and members of the Families & Allies at BlackRock (“FAB”) Network, joined Aimee Rotman, ETF Specialist, Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), to close the market to celebrate Family Day. It was a fun-filled afternoon for the TSX and BlackRock teams, celebrating learning, financial inclusion, and the introduction of family members to Canada’s financial markets. BlackRock is an asset manager and one of the world’s leading providers of investment, advisory, and risk management solutions. Its purpose is to help more and more people experience financial well-being. As a fiduciary to investors and a leading provider of financial technology, BlackRock helps millions of people build savings that serve them throughout their lives by making investing easier and more affordable. BlackRock is a global company with 100+ offices in over 38 different locations, giving it unique global reach and local relationships. Because BlackRock is worldwide, it brings the best of the world to how it invests in Canada.

Dimitri Busevs, President and Chief Executive Officer, RBC Direct Investing, along with the company’s executive team, joined Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”), to close the market and celebrate the launch of GoSmart from RBC Direct Investing, and the kickoff of a national marketing campaign. GoSmart is a mobile-based solution designed for new and aspiring self-directed investors to help them take the first step with confidence. It combines speed and convenience, commission-free trading, and the ability to invest on your terms. GoSmart offers an automated self-directed investment solution to help clients confidently build wealth, and the flexibility to actively select individual stocks and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). With the launch of GoSmart, RBC Direct Investing is championing a new era of financial empowerment for Canadian investors.

Arvinder Aulakh, Interlink Nurse, Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario (“POGO”), joined John McKenzie, Chief Executive Officer, TMX Group, to open the market to highlight International Childhood Cancer Day and shine a light on the children, youth, survivors, and families across Ontario who are living with childhood cancer. POGO works to ensure that everyone affected by childhood cancer has access to the best care and support. They partner to achieve an excellent childhood cancer care system for children, youth, survivors, and their families and healthcare teams, in Ontario and beyond. POGO champions childhood cancer care, and as the collective voice of this community, is the official advisor to Ontario’s Ministry of Health on children’s cancer control and treatment. POGO is a non-profit organization with charitable status, here for kids with cancer, for now, for life.