The Capital Markets Institute received $750 thousand of sponsorship money from the Toronto Stock Exchange in January 1998. The money received funds capital markets research and program activity at the CMI, including round tables, seminars and conferences. The TSX's founding contribution was announced in a press release in January 1998.

The founding of the CMI was part of a bigger University of Toronto initiative in capital markets that was generously sponsored by the ORDCF ($3.75 million), the TSX ($2.75 million) and Peter L. Mitchelson/Sit Investment Associates Foundation ($1.0 million). The sponsorship funds capital markets research and program activity at the CMI, the Honourable Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation at the Faculty of Law, the SIT Chair in Investment Strategy at the Rotman School of Management, the TSX Chairs in Capital Markets at both the Faculty of Law and the Rotman School of Management, the Financial Research and Trading Lab at the Rotman School of Management and the Graduate Fellowship program in capital markets jointly at the Faculty of Law and Rotman.

The ORDCF is designed to promote research excellence in the province by increasing the R&D capacity of Ontario universities and other research institutions through private and public sector partnerships.

The TSE is Canada's premier market for senior equities, accounting for nearly 95% of all equity trading in Canada.

Sit Investment Associates provides a full range of domestic and international investment products and services to clients that include pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, foundations, endowments, and high net worth individuals. Sit Investment Associates is based out of Minneapolis.

Benefits of Sponsorship
The CMI is expanding its sponsorship program to establish relationships with other leading participants in the Canadian capital markets community.
CMI sponsors play an important role that goes far beyond providing funding in helping the CMI to achieve its mission and objectives. CMI sponsors enjoy a close and public relationship with two leading professional schools in the capital markets field: the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and the Rotman School of Management.

Sponsors are entitled to be represented on the CMI's Advisory Board and thereby participate in the strategic planning and oversight of the management of the CMI. Sponsors are also invited to become involved in the development and production of CMI roundtables, conferences and symposia, as well as other CMI events. Invitation-only events like CMI roundtables are open first to CMI sponsors, and we hope that representatives of CMI sponsors will participate in all CMI events.

Becoming a CMI sponsor demonstrates your firm's commitment to and interest in world-class research into the impact of the globalization of business and capital markets on the evolution of the structure, regulation and institutional mechanisms of Canadian capital markets.

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