Chris Lowe BA, MBA Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager

Chris Lowe has 25 years global financial services experience, working in four continents. A Senior Executive of Barclays Bank (1994-2000) he was CEO of Barclays’ businesses in Greece (1994-1995) and Botswana (1997-2000). The Banker magazine ranked Barclays as the "Best Bank" in Botswana and the "Best Bank" in Africa in 2000. Thereafter, as CEO of the National Commercial Bank Jamaica, Limited (“NCBJ”) he led the financial services group to recognition as the world’s 14th highest profits growth performer in 2002. Upon acquisition of NCBJ indirectly by AIC Limited, he joined AIC Limited in October 2002.

Chris’ responsibilities include anticipating industry trends across global financial services; recommending potential investments or divestitures and monitoring and evaluating performance of AIC Funds’ bank-based holdings.

Chris is also the CEO of Copernican Capital Corp., an affiliate company of AIC, which structures and offers differentiated retail investment products listed on the TSX.

Chris has a BA degree from University of North Wales and an MBA from University of Exeter. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and holds their Financial Diploma.

Chris’ Portfolio Management responsibilities include:

• AIC American Advantage Fund
• AIC Global Advantage Fund
• AIC Global Banks Fund
• AIC Global Insurance Fund
• AIC Global Wealth Management Fund
• AIC World Financial Infrastructure Income and Growth Fund
• AIC Global Balanced Fund
• AIC Global Premium Dividend Income Fund (formerly known as AIC Global Diversified Fund)
• AIC Global Financial Split Corp. (ticker symbol ASC.PR.A and ASC)
• Global Banks Premium Income Trust (ticker symbol GBP.UN)
• International Financial Income and Growth Trust (ticker symbol FIT.UN)

and for Copernican Capital Corp.:

• Copernican World Banks Income and Growth Trust (ticker symbol CBK.UN)
• Copernican World Financial Infrastructure Trust (ticker symbol CIW.UN)
• Copernican World Banks Split Inc. (ticker symbols CBW.PR.A and CBW)
• Copernican International Financial Split Corp. (ticker symbols CIR.PR.A and CIR)
• Copernican International Premium Dividend Fund (ticker symbol CPM.UN)
• Copernican British Banks Fund (ticker symbol CBB.UN)
• European Premium Dividend Fund (ticker symbol EPD.UN)
• Copernican International Dividend Income Fund (Formerly AIC World Equity Fund)

• Michael Lee-Chin
• Jonathan Wellum
• James Cole
• Robert Almeida
• Chris Lowe
• Randy LeClair
• Greg Placidi
• Pat Naccarato
• James Dancy
• John Spitman
• Van-Khanh Nguyen