First Asset Investment Management Inc. Announces Changes to its First Asset ETF Lineup

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TORONTO, Nov. 9, 2016 /CNW/ - First Asset Investment Management Inc. ("First Asset") announces that it will terminate the following funds (the "Funds"). The Funds will terminate on or about January 16, 2017 (the "Termination Date"). 

Fund Name	TSX Ticker(s)
First Asset Provincial Bond Index ETF	PXF, PXF.A
First Asset Core Balanced ETF	CBB, CBB.A
First Asset Global Momentum Class ETF – Unhedged and CAD Hedged Classes	FGL, FGM
First Asset Global Value Class ETF – Unhedged and CAD Hedged Classes	FGU, FGV

The Manager will request the TSX to de-list units (or shares) of each Fund from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") on or about January 13, 2017. Until such date, units (or shares) of the Funds will continue to be listed on the TSX. As soon as practicable following the Termination Date, the net assets of each Fund will be liquidated and the proceeds therefrom distributed pro rata among holders of record of such Fund on the Termination Date. First Asset will issue an additional press release on or about the Termination Date confirming final details of the terminations.

With respect to First Asset Global Momentum Class ETF (TSX: FGL), First Asset Global Momentum Class (CAD Hedged) ETF (TSX: FGM), First Asset Global Value Class ETF (TSX: FGU) and First Asset Global Value Class (CAD Hedged) ETF (TSX: FGV) (each, a "Corporate Class Fund"), holders are reminded that they may take advantage of a tax-deferred switch into any one or more of the remaining share classes of First Asset Fund Corp. prior to January 1, 2017. Due to certain 2016 Canadian Federal Budget proposals impacting the Income Tax Act (Canada), beginning January 1, 2017, an exchange of shares of one Corporate Class Fund for another Corporate Class Fund will be a deemed disposition for income tax purposes.

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