Speakers List

Mr. Atkinson has 24 years of investment industry experience. He joined BetaPro Management Inc., an affiliate of Horizons ETFs, as Executive Vice-President in 2006. Prior to BetaPro, Howard was responsible for iShares’ Exchange Traded Products business and held positions with a national investment dealer and major mutual fund companies. He is a past President of the Toronto CFA Society board of directors, and is a member of the S&P/TSX Canada Index Advisory Panel. He is the author of four books including The New Investment Frontier III: A Guide to Exchange Traded Funds for Canadians (Insomniac Press, 2005) and has been a contributing writer in many major Canadian newspapers. He is also a co-author of Market Efficiency, a chapter in the CFA Institute Investment Series book entitled Investments: Principles of Portfolio and Equity Analysis (Wiley, 2011) and is currently used as Level 1 material within the Candidate Body of Knowledge.