Here’s a review of the people on the move this month.
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has appointed Ed Cass senior vice-president and chief investment strategist and a member of the senior management team effective April 1. He’s currently vice-president and head of global tactical asset allocation in the public market investments department, having held several other senior leadership roles in that department.
Heather Cooke is now the director, institutional clients at Unigestion in Toronto. She was formerly at Mercer and has more than 20 years of experience in investment management, sales and research.
The Medavie board of directors has appointed Michael B. Decter as the new board chair. He’s currently president and CEO of the investment management firm LDIC and previously served as deputy minister of health for Ontario and as a senior research scholar at the Joint Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Dan Fishbein, M.D., will become the new president of Sun Life Financial’s U.S. business in April. He’s a 25-year veteran in the employee benefits and group life insurance industries. Fishbein joins Sun Life from Aetna, where he most recently served as president, specialty businesses, with U.S.-wide responsibility for several industry-leading group benefits and voluntary businesses, including the company’s group life insurance business.
Peter Imhof is joining AGF as a vice-president and portfolio manager. He has more than 13 years of expertise in managing Canadian portfolios. Imhof has previously worked for Sprott Asset Management and Sceptre Investment Counsel.
Fidelity Investments has appointed Charles Morrison as president of the asset management division. He most recently served as president of the company’s fixed income group. Morrison joined Fidelity as a corporate bond analyst in 1987 and, over the next several years, assumed roles with increasing responsibility.
Wylie A. Tollette will move to the California Public Employees’ Retirement System as chief operating investment officer on March 31. He has worked for more than 19 years at Franklin Templeton Investments and most recently served as senior vice-president for portfolio analysis and investment risk management.
Bethune Whiston (above), a partner in Morneau Shepell’s Ontario retirement solutions and international practice, has been appointed to the Ontario Financial Services Tribunal. She will initially serve on the tribunal for a three-year period until December 2016.
And after Heenan Blaikie announced it would wind up, a number of lawyers surfaced at rival firms.
A group of 12 labour and employment lawyers have moved to the Montreal office at Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG): Stuart Aronovitch, Robert Bonhomme, Alexandre W. Buswell, Shawn Connelly, Frédéric Desmarais, Corrado De Stefano, Michael D. Grodinsky, Danny J. Kaufer, Chantal Lamarche, Myriane Le François, Frédéric Massé and Maryse Tremblay.
Brian Burkett, Douglas Gilbert, John Craig, Mathias Link and Sarah Graves joined Fasken Martineau’s labour, employment and human rights group as partners in the Toronto office. And over in Ottawa, Claire Vachon, Sébastien Lorquet, Judith Parisien and Marie-Andrée Richard have also the labour, employment and human rights group at Faskens. Vachon and Lorquet joined as partners while Parisien and Richard joined as associates.
Labour and employment lawyers Lucie Guimond and Guy Tremblay moved to Gowlings as partners in the firm’s Montreal office. Guimond has practised exclusively in employment and labour law for more than two decades. And Tremblay is recognized as a leading employment and labour lawyer by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and Best Lawyers in Canada, which recently named him Montreal’s Labour and Employment Lawyer of the Year for 2014.
Dan Palayew has joined Borden Ladner Gervais as a partner and regional leader of the Ottawa labour and employment group. He was the co-managing partner with the Ottawa office of Heenan Blaikie where he was also leader of the Ottawa labour and employment group.
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