CI Financial announces earnings conference call and webcast

TSX Symbol: CIX

TORONTO, April 15, 2016 /CNW/ - CI Financial Corp. ("CI") will release its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 on Thursday, May 5, 2016. The results will be issued through CNW Group Ltd. and on www.cifinancial.com.

CI will hold a conference call with analysts that day at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. Chief Executive Officer Stephen MacPhail and Chief Financial Officer Douglas Jamieson will be presenting CI's results. Also attending will be Peter Anderson, incoming CEO, Derek Green, President of CI Investments, Steven Donald, President of Assante Wealth Management, and Neal Kerr, President of CI Institutional Asset Management. The call and a slide presentation will be accessible through a webcast at www.ci.com/q1. Alternatively, investors may listen to the discussion by dialling [phone] or 1-866-696-5910 (passcode: 4623854).

A replay of the call will be available until May 19, 2016 at [phone] or 1-800-408-3053 (passcode: 5129451). The webcast will be archived at www.ci.com/q1.

CI Financial Corp. (TSX: CIX) is an independent, Canadian-owned wealth management company with approximately $143 billion in assets as of March 31, 2016. Its primary operating businesses are CI Investments Inc., one of Canada's largest investment managers, advisory businesses Assante Wealth Management and Stonegate Private Counsel, and First Asset Capital Corp., a leader in providing actively managed exchange-traded funds to the Canadian marketplace. CI is on the Web at www.cifinancial.com.

SOURCE CI Investments Inc.

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