Montreal-based Montrusco Bolton and Bermuda-based Focus Group will be sponsoring their second conference this month in Toronto.

This will be the second of several conferences that the two firms will be initiating as part of a national campaign to educate and assist Canadian investors as they search for ways to better diversify their ailing portfolios.

The conference will be held on May 15 at the Royal Meridien King Edward Hotel. The first ARS conference was held in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec last.

“The conference is unique in that prospective investors will have a chance to meet and listen to several of our underlying managers. This raises the transparency bar in the industry to a new level. In addition our head of research will discuss manager due diligence and risk monitoring. Several sessions on institutional liabilities and a panel discussion round out the agenda”, says Frank Belvedere, vice president of Alternative Investments at Montrusco Bolton in Montreal.