Canadian Income Funds

Peter Beck is a well-known financial expert and President ofSwiftTrade Inc., Canada's leading proprietary trading firm. A European-trained chef, Mr. Beck immigrated to Canada in 1979and set up a number of successful businesses, including a coffeeshop, a water bottling company, a pet food delivery service, andITN Corporation, the first legally operating long distance companyin Canada. In 1998, he founded SwiftTrade, which was #7 onProfit Magazine's "10 Hottest Startups in Canada" for2001, and was named #2 on the "Top 100 Fastest Growing Businessesin Canada" for 2004, also by Profit, with an astoundingfive-year growth rate of almost 9000%. Mr. Beck has been featured in media across the country,including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, CTVNews, ROB TV, and Canadian Business. He regularly appears ontelevision to offer commentary on the markets, writes articles forfinancial publications across the country, and is the co-author ofHedge Funds for Canadians: New Investment Strategies for Winningin Any Market (John Wiley & Sons). Simon Romano is a partner at Stikeman Elliott LLP, a440-lawyer firm with an international reputation in all areas ofbusiness law, most notably securities, tax, banking, corporatefinance, M&A, securitizations and derivatives, commerciallitigation, competition law, commercial real estate,labour/employment and pension law, environmental law, intellectualproperty and related fields. Mr. Romano practices principally inthe area of securities, M&A and finance, as well as acting forprivate equity funds, income trusts, and alternative tradingsystems. Mr. Romano has practiced in both Toronto and New York, and wasformerly a clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. During 1995 and1996, he was Special Counsel to the Ontario Securities Commission,where he dealt with take-over bids as well as other projects. Hehas written a number of articles, is a frequent speaker atseminars, and was a member of the Ontario SecuritiesCommission's Securities Advisory Committee. He is particularly active in the area of income trusts, havingadvised the Livingston International Income Fund and the SIRRoyalty Income Fund, among others. He has been recognized byLexpert/American Lawyer as one of Canada's top 500 lawyers,and by Chambers Global as one of the world's leadinglawyers.