Market Opens

Lisa Zarzeczny, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Elevate, and her team, along with founders of the 2024 CIX Top 20 Early and Top 10 Growth award recipients, joined Dani Lipkin, Managing Director, Global Innovation Sector, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to celebrate CIX’s selection of award winners and to open the market. CIX, powered by Elevate, is Canada’s largest startup awards program and investment summit that brings together Canadian tech founders, global investors, and industry advisors to showcase Canada’s most promising early and growth-stage tech companies and power new investment deals. Taking place March 26-27, 2024 in Toronto, the CIX Summit offers networking, one-one meetings, and expert advice with the highest concentration of startup execs and capital providers in Canada.

Jennifer Mersereau, Senior Partner, Co-Founder & COO, Hamilton ETFs, Patrick Sommerville, Senior Partner, Head of Business Development, Hamilton ETFs, and their team joined Graham MacKenzie, Managing Director, Exchange Traded Products, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to open the market and celebrate the launch of four new ETFs: Hamilton Gold Producers Yield Maximizer ETF (AMAX), Hamilton Energy Yield Maximizer ETF (EMAX), Hamilton U.S. Financials Yield Maximizer ETF (FMAX) and Hamilton Healthcare Yield Maximizer ETF (LMAX). Hamilton ETFs is one of Canada's fastest growing ETF managers with over $4 billion in assets under management across nineteen 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.

Representatives from the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) joined TMX Group to open the market and celebrate the AMF’s 20th anniversary. In its role as regulator, the AMF works to maintain a financial sector that is dynamic, operates with integrity and warrants public trust. It regulates, in whole or in part, activities in the following sectors: insurance, securities and derivatives, distribution of financial products and services, deposit institutions, mortgage brokerage and credit assessment.

Prerna Mathews, VP, ETF Product Strategy, Mackenzie Investments, and her team joined Keith Wu, Head, Exchange Traded Products & TMX Market Center, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), to open the market and celebrate the launch of the Mackenzie World Low Volatility ETF (TSX: MWLV). Mackenzie Investments (“Mackenzie”) is a leading investment management firm with $195.7 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2023. Mackenzie provides investment solutions and related services to more than one million retail and institutional clients through multiple distribution channels. Founded in 1967, Mackenzie is a global asset manager with offices across Canada as well as in Boston, Dublin, London, Hong Kong and Beijing. Mackenzie is a member of IGM Financial Inc. (TSX: IGM), one of Canada's premier financial services companies with approximately $240 billion in total assets under management as of December 31, 2023.