Media Advisory - Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets Financials Summit Conference to be Broadcast on Web

TORONTO, Sept. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets is hosting its 13^th annual Financials Summit Conference September 5 and 6, 2012. This two-day event provides participants with the opportunity to hear Canada's leading financial services companies review their corporate strategies and discuss current topics and trends in the financial markets. Audio portions of the presentations will be broadcast live on the Internet beginning at 9:00 a.m. EDT.

Scheduled presenters and times* are:

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
9:00 a.m.	Bank of Nova Scotia, Richard Waugh, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
9:30 a.m.	RBC Financial Group, Janice Fukakusa, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
10:00 a.m.	BMO Financial Group, William Downe, President and CEO
10:30 a.m.	TD Bank Group, W. Edmund Clark, President and CEO
11:10 a.m.	CIBC, Gerry McCaughey, President and CEO
11:40 a.m.	National Bank of Canada, Louis Vachon, President and CEO
12:05 p.m.	Canadian Western Bank, Chris Fowler, President and CFO
12:30 p.m.	Laurentian Bank of Canada, Rejean Robitaille, President and CEO
1:40 p.m.	Manulife Financial Corporation, Warren Thomson, Senior Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Investment Officer (CIO)
2:10 p.m.	Power Financial Corporation, Jeffrey Orr, President and CEO
2:35 p.m.	IGM Financial Inc, Charles Sims, Co-President and CEO, and Murray Taylor, Co-President and CEO
3:00 p.m.	CI Financial Corp., Stephen MacPhail, President and CEO
3:25 p.m.	AGF Management Limited, Blake Goldring, Chairman and CEO
3:55 p.m.	Banco de Chile, Pablo Mejia, Head of Investor Relations (IR)
4:20 p.m.	Banco Santander Chile, Robert Moreno, Manager of Strategy and IR
Thursday, September 6, 2012
8:35 a.m.	TMX Group, Thomas Kloet, CEO
9:00 a.m.	Sun Life Financial Inc., Dean A. Connor, President and CEO
9:25 a.m.	Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc., Yvon Charest, President and CEO
9:50 a.m.	Intact Financial Corporation, Charles Brindamour, CEO
10:25 a.m.	Principal Financial Group, Inc., Terry Lillis, CFO
10:50 a.m.	MetLife Inc., Eric Steigerwalt, EVP and Interim CFO
11:15 a.m.	Lincoln National Corporation, Randy Freitag, CFO
12:20 p.m.	Brookfield Asset Management, Brian D. Lawson, Senior Managing Partner and CFO
12:50 p.m.	ONEX Corporation, Seth Mersky, Managing Director
1:15 p.m.	Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc., Jeremy Freedman, President and CEO
1:40 p.m.	Fiera Capital, Sylvain Brosseau, President and COO
2:05 p.m.	Sprott Inc., Steve Rostowsky, CFO
2:30 p.m.	Genworth MI Canada Inc., Brian Hurley, Chairman and CEO, Canada
2:55 p.m.	Equitable Group, Andrew Moor, President and CEO
3:20 p.m.	Home Capital Group Inc., Martin Reid, President and Gerald Soloway, CEO
3:45 p.m.	Element Financial, Steve Hudson, Chairman and CEO
4:10 p.m.	First National Financial Corporation, Stephen Smith, President

Listeners may access the conference live via a web audio link at www.gbm.scotiabank.com .  The conference will be archived on the Global Banking and Markets website for three months.

* Agenda is subject to change. See www.gbm.scotiabank.com for most current schedule.

Since 1998, Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets'  Industry Conferences have been ranked No. 1 in Canada by independent surveys.

Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets provides corporate and investment banking and capital markets products and services to corporate, institutional and government clients across the globe. The Bank has over 30 Global Banking and Markets offices around the world and more than 300 relationship managers, organized around industry specialties. For more information, please visit www.gbm.scotiabank.com.

Scotiabank is one of North America's premier financial institutions and Canada's most international bank. With more than 81,000 employees, Scotiabank and its affiliates serve some 19 million customers in more than 55 countries around the world. Scotiabank offers a broad range of products and services including personal, commercial, corporate and investment banking. With assets of $670 billion (as at July 31, 2012), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (BNS) and New York Exchanges (BNS). For more information please visit www.scotiabank.com.

 

SOURCE: Scotiabank

Devinder Lamsar, Scotiabank Media Communications, 416-933-1171, [email protected]