Tim Pickering

Auspice Capital Advisors Ltd. (Auspice) is an independent asset management firm headquartered in Calgary, Canada. The firm was founded by Timothy W. Pickering and Kenneth Corner in 2005. Auspice works with a wide range of clients and develops solutions to improve their portfolio or product suite. The firm’s strategies are available to institutions, financial professionals and high net worth individual investors as well as retail investors through sub-advisory and licensing to globally respected product distributors.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.