Investment Team
Craig Rimer
Craig is a director of AFL Investments and is the CEO and Investment Committee Chair of Cidel Bank and Trust Inc. Craig is also a director and member of the Investment Committee of Orbit Asset Management Inc. (Bermuda) - a Bermudian fund management company; a director of Nexgen Financial Limited Partnership - a Canadian mutual fund company; and a director of Toron Capital Markets - a leading Canadian investment counselling firm. Craig acts as advisor to the Investment Committee of the University of Toronto pension and endowment funds, is the Co-Chair of the Investment Committee of Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care’s Foundation, a director of the Baycrest Centre, and a director of the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. His former positions include serving as a managing director in CIBC World Markets’ Financial Products Division, and working in the derivatives division of Bankers Trust Company. Craig graduated Suma Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School.
Bill McKay
Bill is AFL Investment’s lead portfolio manager. He joined Cidel Financial Group in November 2005 and is a member of Cidel’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining Cidel, Bill was employed at UBS in Canada, where he served as a director and portfolio manager for high-net-worth clients from 1997. Bill was also deputy head of UBS’ Canadian Equity team. Prior to that, he held an advisory role for offshore clients, where he provided advice on asset allocation, portfolio construction and security selection. He has a wide variety of experience in equity and fixed income analysis, foreign exchange and structured products. Bill graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. He is a CFA and CAIA charter holder, and a member of the Toronto CFA Society, the CFA Institute and the CAIA Association.
Matt Maldoff
Matt joined Cidel Financial Group in June 2005 and is a member of Cidel’s Investment Committee. Matt is an analyst for the Ascent Relative Value Fund, Ltd. and sits on their Investment Committee. Matt is responsible for hedge fund portfolio allocations, portfolio risk management, on-site due diligence visits with hedge fund managers, quantitative and qualitative analysis of hedge fund managers and arbitrage strategies. Matt graduated from Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario in 2005 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and is a CFA charter holder.
Raj Kohli
Raj is an investment analyst at Cidel Financial Group and a member of Cidel’s Investment Committee. He is responsible for supporting the creation and implementation of long-term asset allocations across multiple asset classes for discretionary and advisory portfolios. Raj has previously worked as an analyst in the Private Investments Division at JP Morgan Chase in New York, as a financial engineer at Algorithmics in Toronto, and as an analyst at IBM. Raj received a Masters of Science in Financial Mathematics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2005 and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2002. Raj is a CFA charter holder and member of the Toronto CFA Society.
