Client Benefits

Pier 21 Asset Management was created in 2005 to provide Canadian institutional investors with improved access to skilled global investment managers. Its business model is uniquely situated to offer some key benefits to clients:

• Pier 21 creates greater diversity of choice. It enters into exclusive investment agreements with selected world class money management firms that do not have an active presence in Canada. Every Canadian organization, regardless of its size, deserves efficient access to world-class investment managers in its choice of international asset classes.
• Pier 21 conducts its rigorous due diligence activities on an on-going basis, and shares its findings with clients. Acting as another set of eyes and ears, and in conjunction with consultants and investment committees, Pier 21 provides full transparency into the investment managers’ thinking and operations.
• Pier 21 recognizes each client may have need for more than one of the specialized investment solutions being offered by Pier 21’s investment managers. Pier 21’s product offering and relationship pricing model addresses the cost and rigour issues of gaining access to multiple international managers who are specialists in their respective fields.
• Pier 21 optimizes its domestic service model by integrating the expertise of foreign-based sub-advisors with its own on-the-ground Canadian presence. Pier 21 provides a full range of customized communication and client reporting, including monthly statements, regular manager commentary and interactive conference calls, informational breakfast seminars and meetings with clients and their consultants on demand.