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    www.foundationendowment.com/default.asp?page=1&SID=5939 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 10/27/2005    Last Visited: 3/1/2007  

    Tom Gunn of UBC Investment Management Trust, the university's asset management arm, found it had returned 5.1% for the ending March.

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    www.investmentreview.com/archives/2006/spring/spring200 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 1/1/2006    Last Visited: 1/19/2009  

    —Tom Gunn, president, University of British Columbia Investment Management Trust.

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    www.icmarc.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CpULmqdCbmdK - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 9/30/2002    Last Visited: 6/14/2003  

    Tom Gunn, is Chief Investment Officer, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) and a director of Oxford Properties Group Inc.Previously, he was a senior vice-president and CFO, CT Financial Services Inc. and senior vice-president and Chief Information Officer, TD Trust.

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    www.smokehoods.com/distributors/AvEx.aspx - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 7/18/2006    Last Visited: 3/14/2007  

    Tom GunnVice President: tgunn@av-ex.com

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    www.campbellrivermirror.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 6/17/2005    Last Visited: 6/27/2005  

    The University of B.C. Research Farm at Oyster River could be up for sale if managers of the UBC Investment Management Trust decide that's the best use of the property, according to fund vice-president Tom Gunn.The property has not been used as a research farm for some time and we are taking a strategic look to see what we will do with it.One of the possibilities is what should be done on the timber on the farm - various people have come in with proposals," Gunn said.The university dairy herd, which once occupied the research farm, was moved to a university farm at Agassiz in 1999.The university continues to maintain the property but does not intend use it as a research facility.The farm includes two properties near Oyster River: a 1,300 acre parcel on Macaulay Road and a 360-acre property on the Old Island Highway near the Oyster River.The upper farm consists of a number of parcels which were bought at various times, so it could be sold piece by piece, Gunn said.
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    There has been no restriction on the use of the property since the agreement expired in 1982, according to Shann and Gunn.

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    www.comoxvalleyrecord.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=8 - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 6/16/2005    Last Visited: 6/16/2005  

    The University of B.C. Research Farm at Oyster River could be up for sale if managers of the UBC Investment Management Trust decide that's the best use of the property, says fund vice-president Tom Gunn."The property has not been used as a research farm for some time and we are taking a strategic look to see what we will do with it.One of the possibilities is what should be done on the timber on the farm ... various people have come in with proposals," Gunn said.The university dairy herd, which once occupied the research farm, was moved to a university farm at Agassiz in 1999.The university continues to maintain the property, but does not intend use it as a research facility.The farm includes two properties near Oyster River: a 1,300 acre parcel on Macaulay Road and a 360 acre property on the Old Island Highway near the Oyster River.The upper farm consists of a number of parcels which were bought at various times, so it could be sold piece by piece, Gunn said.
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    There has been no restriction on the use of the property since the agreement expired in 1982, according to Shann and Gunn.

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    www.benefitscanada.com/investments/alternative/article. - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 7/18/2006    Last Visited: 7/1/2007  

    "The pursuit is actually deadly-it's very much a flawed theory," says Tom Gunn, former chief investment officer at OMERS and now president of the University of British Columbia Investment Management Trust in Vancouver.
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    Different skills are needed for different alternative strategies, says Gunn."In real estate, it has to do with people's demonstrated ability to make transactions in the past.It's the same thing, ideally, in the private equity space," he says.

    "Unlike public investing, the record of the manager is usually repeatable.That's because what you're investing in is a management skill rather than just a securities selection skill."The corporate skill, he says, "is buying an asset and figuring out how actually to improve the underlying value of that asset."

    By contrast, hedge fund managers, most of whom were trained on the proprietary trading desks of the banks, seek out short-term mispricings, in very narrowlydefined strategies.The skill was really in the execution."Hedge fund managers should have a recognizable skill and should have a definable skill and be able to explain it," Gunn says.
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    "This gets into the argument of how much capacity there is in the market," says Gunn.
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    "When I joined the firm, OMERS had a fair representation in real estate at the time," says Tom Gunn, former chief investment officer at OMERS, and currently president of the University of British Columbia's Investment Management Trust.
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    "We always did in the strategic sense," says Gunn.He also notes that the desire to diversify into alternatives is a good idea from an asset mix standpoint.The board should always be involved in the asset mix decisions, adds Gunn, because that's the primary decision that affects asset returns.
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    "Unfortunately, when markets are frothy, it's tempting for people to think they can invest without building the necessary infrastructure," says Gunn."That almost inevitably comes home to haunt them when times become rough."

    Building the infrastructure is no mean feat: it's not just a matter of looking at how returns were generated, though that is certainly a consideration.It also involves assessing the manager, looking at the business model, and setting out risk controls.

    Gunn says that one of the hardest questions that gets asked on due diligence on any manager is just to look at their back office and at their system skills.The purpose is to see if they have invested in their accounting controls and proper due diligence of banking controls."If it's not there, or we can't find it, or people are reluctant to show it to us, we will go and deal elsewhere," he stresses.
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    Boards can also turn to consultants for due diligence who, in turn, instead of selecting a direct investment, may choose from a proven list of funds-offunds, Gunn says.

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    2005 Alternative Investment Conference - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 11/10/2005    Last Visited: 1/19/2009  

    Presenter: Tom Gunn, President, University of British Columbia Investment Management Trust

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    2005 Alternative Investment Conference - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 1/1/2005    Last Visited: 9/9/2009  

    Tom Gunn
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    Tom Gunn Tom is the president and chief executive officer of the University of British Columbia Investment Management Trust Inc. (UBC IMANT). Tom's responsibilities include overseeing institutional investment managers and developing investment policies for the new organization, which administers the investment management of the university's endowment fund, staff pension plan and other designated funds. Tom was formerly Chief Investment Officer of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), the largest public pension plan in Ontario in terms of individual participants and second largest in terms of assets. Prior to his position at OMERS, Tom was Chief Financial Officer of Canada Trust and later Chief Investment Officer of TD Trust, now part of TD Canada Trust. His investment career began on the sell side with firms now part of CIBC World Markets, RBC Dominion Securities and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Tom has also served as Chair of the Pension Investment Association of Canada and as President of the

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    Aviation Industry Exhibitions - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 12/7/2003    Last Visited: 10/1/2004  

    Tom Gunn,Vice President

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