[ASK 2020] Real Estate Investing in these unprecedented times

Fiera Capital is an independent global asset management firm with a multi-boutique approach, with over USD125 billion in assets under management and is one of Canada’s leading investment managers (as at end June 2020). Our coverage extends across both traditional strategies (EM / global / US equities) and absolute return investment strategies, with a number of private alternatives teams including real estate, infrastructure, private equity, agriculture, private lending and Asian focused private debt.

We are a Canadian public listed company on the Toronto Stock Exchange, with global presence across Canada, USA, Europe and Asia.

[Speakers' Biography]

Peter Cuthbert leads Fiera Real Estate’s (“FRE”) global business. He was a founding partner of FRE and has been instrumental in creating and growing a best-in-class institutional grade real estate investment management platform that currently manages more than $5 billion USD in assets for a diverse and growing client base. Peter joined the industry in 1985 and has a multi-disciplinary background. Over the course of his career, he has been personally involved in the management and investment of more than $10 billion of commercial real estate. Peter has a broad perspective of the real estate industry, having worked in the institutional, public-market, brokerage, and private-sector environments.

Blair McCreadie is a key member of the Fiera Real Estate (“FRE”) executive team and the Fund Manager of the Fiera Real Estate CORE Fund (“Fund”), an opened-ended, pooled, Canadian real estate fund. Blair has over 30 year of experience in all facets of real estate. Prior to joining FRE, Blair spent more than 15 years involved with one of the largest and oldest open-ended pooled real estate funds in Canada. Blair is a graduate of York University and holds an Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute (AACI) designation.

Alex joined Fiera Real Estate in 2003, initially charged with creating the fund management business within Fiera Real Estate. He set up and managed the Palmer Capital Development Fund and its successor vehicle. He was promoted to Chief Executive in 2008. Prior to Fiera Real Estate, Alex served as an officer in the British Army before starting his financial career with Credit Lyonnais Securities in 1997. He has an MBA from the London Business School and is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He is a Board Director and member of the Investment Committee.