Bob Saul joins the Fiera Comox team
Montreal, November 29, 2017 – It is with great pleasure that Fiera Comox is announcing the arrival of Bob Saul as Partner, Agriculture. Bob will be primarily responsible for sourcing and overseeing our agriculture investments in the United States, where he has developed a deep network of partners in a wide range of agriculture sectors.
Bob has more than twenty years of direct investment experience in the agriculture and forestry asset class in the United States and Central America. Bob has managed some of the largest portfolios of farmland and timberland globally and was responsible for more than $3 Billion in land-based transactions. He successfully oversaw investments in several agriculture sectors, including citrus, maple syrup production, grazing land to row crop conversion, water resource development, hardwood and softwood plantation establishment, mitigation banking, and seed development. Bob was one of the founding members of GMO Renewable Resources in 1997 where he played a leading role for more than 15 years building a 2 million-acre timber and row crop portfolio located primarily in the United States.
He received a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is a graduate of Amherst College. Bob has also owned and managed his own 220-acre farm in Amherst, Massachusetts for 27 years.
About Fiera Comox
Established in 2016 as a joint-venture between the principals of Comox Equity Partners and Fiera Capital, Fiera Comox is an independent investment manager providing innovative investment solutions to a wide range of investors through two distinct global private investment strategies: Private Equity and Agriculture. Fiera Comox’s investment team is composed of a group of highly qualified and experienced investment professionals with a unique, complementary skill set, who have successfully managed and deployed tens of billions of dollars in private transactions globally. The firm aims to deliver attractive long-term returns to its investors while preserving capital and investing responsibly.
About Fiera Capital Corporation
Fiera Capital is a leading independent asset management firm with more than C$123.0 billion in assets under management as at September 30, 2017. The Firm provides institutional, retail and private wealth clients with access to full-service integrated money management solutions across traditional and alternative asset classes. Clients and their portfolios derive benefit from Fiera Capital’s depth of expertise, diversified offerings and outstanding service. Fiera Capital trades under the ticker FSZ on the Toronto Stock Exchange. www.fieracapital.com
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For further information:
Daniel Richard,
Senior Vice-President, Corporate Communications and Investors Relations,
Fiera Capital Corporation
514 954-6456
drichard@fieracapital.com