Allan Jacobs

Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. (TSE: SZ), incorporated in 1955, has been in its present form since 1971. Based in Toronto, Sceptre is one of Canada's largest institutional fund managers. In September 2000, Sceptre announced a strategic alliance with Putnam Investments, Inc. Sceptre became the exclusive marketing agent of Putnam's institutional investment products in Canada. Their Canadian equity and income funds include: the Sceptre Money Market Fund, the Sceptre Bond Fund, the Sceptre Private Client Bond Fund, the Sceptre High Income Fund, the Sceptre Income & Growth Fund, the Sceptre Canadian Equity Fund, the Sceptre Private Client Canadian Equity Fund and the Sceptre Equity Growth Fund. Sceptre's mutual funds include the Sceptre Income & Growth Fund, the Sceptre Bond Fund, Sceptre High Income Fund, the Sceptre Canadian Equity Fund, the Sceptre Equity Growth Fund, the Sceptre Global Equity Fund and the Sceptre Money Market Fund. Their institutional products include the Balanced Pool Fund, the Endowment, Foundations and Trusts (EFT) Pooled Fund, the Equity Pool, the Canadian Equity Pool, the Small-Cap Canadian Equity Pool, the Bond Pool, the Foreign Equity Pool and the Institutional Pooled Fund.

Toronto-based Canada Life Assurance Company was founded in 1847. In 2003, Canada Life became a subsidiary of The Great-West Life Assurance Company (TSE: GWO).

Sprott Asset Management LP (Sprott AM) is a Canadian alternative investment management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded by Eric Sprott in 1981 and is a subsidiary of Sprott Asset Management GP, Inc., which is owned by Sprott, Inc. (NYSE, TSX: SII). Sprott AM offers a wide variety of investment solutions to Canadian and international investors.

Sceptre Investment Counsel Ltd. provides financial planning services to its clients. It provides services to corporations, governments, hospitals, charitable foundations, endowments, universities, unions, high net-worth individuals, reserve funds of insurance companies, estates, trusts, and private corporations. The company was founded on November 22, 1955 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Sprott Physical Gold Trust operates as a closed-end investment trust, which engages in investing and holding all of its assets in physical gold bullion. Its investment objective is to provide a secure, convenient, and exchange-traded investment alternative for investors through investing primarily in long-term holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical gold bullion and will not speculate with regard to short-term changes in gold prices. The company was founded on August 28, 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Sprott Physical Silver Trust is a closed-end investment trust company, which engages in the provision of a secure, convenient, and exchange-traded investment alternative for investors interested in holding physical silver bullion without the inconvenience that is typical of a direct investment in physical silver bullion. The Trust invests and intends to continue to invest primarily in long-term holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical silver bullion, and does not speculate with regard to short-term changes in silver prices. The company was founded on June 30, 2010 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of Sprott, Inc., Sprott Asset Management GP, Inc. provides investment advice. The company is based in Toronto, Canada. The CEO of the Canadian company is John Anthony Ciampaglia.

Old Mutual Life Assurance Co. (South Africa) Ltd. (Old Mutual South Africa) is the South African life insurance subsidiary of Great Britain-based OM Residual UK Ltd. They are ultimately held by of Old Mutual Ltd. (JSE: OMU), an African financial services group that offers a broad spectrum of financial solutions to retail and corporate customers across key markets in 14 countries. Headquartered in Cape Town, the firm was founded in 1845 and was originally known as the South African Mutual Life Assurance Society. Old Mutual South Africa offers an array of life assurance-based solutions and short-term insurance to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses and corporates in South Africa, the rest of Africa and certain other emerging markets.