Michael James Craig

Founded in 1964 by Art Phillips, Bob Hager and Rudy North, Phillips, Hager & North Investment Management (PH&N) is an investment advisor headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm is an operating division of RBC Global Asset Management (RBC GAM), itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY) which acquired PH&N in May 2008. In November 2010, PH&N amalgamated with their affiliate, RBC Asset Management, Inc. to form RBC GAM. RBC GAM is the fund manager and principal portfolio advisor of the PH&N Funds and the BonaVista Funds. The primary distributor of the PH&N Funds and the BonaVista Funds is Phillips, Hager & North Investments Funds Ltd., dba PH&N Investment services,

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.

Sprott Strategic Fixed Income Fund is a closed-end investment fund. The fund provides exposure on a tax advantaged basis to an actively managed portfolio comprised primarily of long and short positions in fixed income securities from across the globe. It focuses on maximizing absolute total returns to holders of units with low volatility relative to traditional and long-only bond funds and providing unit holders with monthly tax-advantaged distributions. The fund is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

TD Asset Management, Inc. (TDAM) is a Canadian investment management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of the Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD), a Canadian chartered bank regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Founded in 1987, TDAM provides discretionary investment management services to corporations, investment companies, pension funds/plans, endowments and foundations.