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RBC Investment Strategy Committee
Members
Daniel E. Chornous, CFA
Chief Investment Officer
RBC Global Asset Management Inc.
Chair, RBC Investment Strategy committee
Dan Chornous is Chief Investment Officer of RBC Global Asset Management Inc. that have total assets under management $250 billion. Mr. Chornous is responsible for
the overall direction of investment policy and fund management. In addition, he chairs the RBC Investment Strategy Committee, the group responsible for global assetmix
recommendations and global fixed income and equity portfolio construction for use in RBC Wealth Management’s key client groups including retail mutual funds,
International Wealth Management, RBC Dominion Securities Inc. and RBC Phillips, Hager & North Investment Counsel Inc. He also serves on the Board of Directors of
the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and is Chair of its Public Policy Committee. Prior to joining RBC Asset Management in November 2002, Mr. Chornous was
Managing Director, Capital Markets Research and Chief Investment Strategist at RBC Capital Markets. In that role, he was responsible for developing the firm’s outlook
for global and domestic economies and capital markets as well as managing the firm’s global economics, technical and quantitative research teams.
Jim Allworth
Portfolio strategist
RBC wealth management
Jim has been in the investment business for 39 years as both a research
analyst and portfolio strategist. He is currently a director of RBC
Investments and also Vice-Chair of the RBC Capital Markets Investment
Strategy Committee. Through his 33 years at RBC Dominion Securities (and
predecessors), Jim has played a key role in developing investment policy for
the firm and translating that worked into solutions for individual clients. He
presents extensively on the topic.
Dagmara Fijalkowski, MBA, CFA
Head, Global Fixed Income & Currencies
(Toronto and London)
RBC Global Asset Management Inc.
As Head of Global Fixed Income & Currencies at RBC Asset Management,
Dagmara oversees 15 investment professionals in Toronto and London,
with more than $40 billion in assets under management. In her duties as
a portfolio manager, Dagmara looks after foreign-exchange hedging and
active currency-management programs for fixed-income and equity funds,
and co-manages several of the firm's bond portfolios. Dagmara chairs the
RBC Fixed Income & Currencies Committee. She is also a member of the
RBC Investment Policy Committee, which determines the asset mix for RBC
balanced products, and the RBC Investment Strategy Committee, which
establishes global strategy for the firm.
Janet L. Engels
Senior V.P. & Director
Private Client Research Group
RBC Wealth Management
Janet has more than 27 years of experience in the securities industry. She
joined Tucker Anthony, later RBC Dain Rauscher, in 1982. Over the course of
her career, she has held the positions of Director of Equity Research for Sutro
& Co. and Director of Equity Strategies for Tucker Anthony. In 2002 she was
named Director of the Private Client Group at RBC Dain Rauscher, now RBC
Wealth Management, where she is also a member of the Director’s Circle.
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Stuart Kedwell, CFA
Senior V.P. &
Senior Portfolio Manager
RBC Global Asset Management Inc.
Stu Kedwell began his career with RBC Dominion Securities in the firm’s
Generalist program and completed rotations in the Fixed Income, Equity
Research, Corporate Finance and Private Client divisions. Following this
program, he joined the RBC Investments Portfolio Advisory Group and was
a member of the RBC DS Strategy and Stock Selection committees. He later
joined RBC Global Asset Management as a senior portfolio manager and
now manages the RBC Canadian Dividend Fund, RBC North American Value
Fund and a number of other mandates. He is co-head of RBC Global Asset
Management’s Canadian Equity Team.
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