Public Equities

Our Public Equities team provides core asset class exposure to Canadian and global equity markets.

The team combines internally and externally managed strategies to help meet our clients’ objectives. Internally managed investments include both quantitative and fundamental active strategies that currently invest in more than 45 countries around the world. Externally managed investments include long-only equity and hedge fund strategies and are employed in areas where internal management does not offer a competitive or cost advantage.

Our Public Equities Leadership

Justin Lord

Senior Executive Managing Director, Global Head of Public Markets

Justin Lord

Senior Executive Managing Director, Global Head of Public Markets

Justin Lord oversees AIMCo's Public Equities and Fixed Income teams, helping ensure the successful execution of the investment strategy.

Justin has been serving as Head of Public Equities for two years and has over nineteen years of public markets investment experience with expertise, twelve with AIMCo, in both capital allocation and international public markets.

Justin joined AIMCo in 2012, moving from the East Coast, where he was managing equity mandates for an institutional asset manager.

Justin holds a BBA with a major in finance from the University of New Brunswick and is a CFA Charterholder. He is on the AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education’s Board of Directors.

Brandon Gill

Managing Director, Public Equities, Head of External Partnerships

Brandon Gill

Managing Director, Public Equities, Head of External Partnerships

Brandon Gill New leads the External Partnerships team, overseeing the investment professionals responsible for investing in externally managed beta-one public equity and absolute return investments.

Prior to joining AIMCo, Brandon spent five years at OPTrust, most recently as the Managing Director & Head, Multi-Strategy Investments and Digital Assets. Previously, Brandon was a Director at BMO Capital Partners, a proprietary private debt and equity fund at Bank of Montreal. She also spent a decade at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, serving as a Portfolio Manager in the Alternative Investments Division and as an Assistant Portfolio manager for the Public Equities team.

Brandon holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA in International Economics from Middlebury College in Vermont. She is also a CFA Charterholder.

Brian Ng

Portfolio Manager, Event Driven Strategies

Brian Ng

Portfolio Manager, Event Driven Strategies

Brian is responsible for managing the Alpha Strategies group within Public Equities, leading a team of investment professionals focused on delivering positive absolute risk-adjusted returns with lower volatility than equity markets through investing across a variety of global market neutral and relative value investment strategies, on behalf of our clients.

Brian joined AIMCo in 2011 and holds an LLM from York University, BCom from the University of Saskatchewan, and is a CFA Charterholder.

Dietmar Sollbach

Director, Public Equities, Portfolio Management

Dietmar Sollbach

Director, Public Equities, Portfolio Management

Dietmar Sollbach leads a team of investment professionals responsible for the portfolio management of AIMCo’s Public Equities portfolios.

Since joining AIMCo in 1997, he has advanced through progressively more senior positions in Public Equities including roles within the External Managers team and the Indexes group.

Dietmar has a BA with honours and an MA in economics from the University of Alberta. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) as well as a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

David Tiley

Managing Director, Public Equities, Head of Fundamental Equities

David Tiley

Managing Director, Public Equities, Head of Fundamental Equities

As Head of the Fundamental Equities group within Public Equities, David leads a team of portfolio managers and research analysts focused on identifying high conviction valuation discrepancies across the globe.

Prior to joining AIMCo in 2013, David was Head of International Investments for a global fundamental value investment team at one of Canada’s largest institutional asset managers.

David holds an M.Sc. in Accounting from Western International University, a BA (Honours) and MA in Political Economy from Carleton University, and a BA in Asian & International Studies from Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia.

He also holds the Accredited Director (Acc.Dir.) and Chartered Investment Manager (CIM) designations and chairs the Granting Committee for the AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education. He is a member of the Business Council of Alberta’s Energy & Environment Committee.