Silver Level Sponsors

Ashton College

Conveniently located in the heart of downtown Vancouver's picturesque Coal Harbour, Ashton College is a post-secondary institution delivering comprehensive career and continuing education to both domestic and international students. Accredited by the Private Career Training Institutions Agency of British Columbia (PCTIA) and recipient of the prestigious Education Quality Assurance (EQA) designation, Ashton College is internationally recognized for its value and quality of instruction.

Comprised of the School of Business, the School of Part-Time Studies, The English Language Center and the School of Continuing Education, Ashton offers both full-time and part-time diploma and certificate programs in a variety of rapidly expanding disciplines such as: International Trade, Human Resources, Accounting, Business English Communications, Sales and Marketing, Immigration, Financial Planning, and Business Management.

Programs at Ashton qualify for Student Loans and additional government funding.

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AXA

Across Canada, AXA supports its clients—whether individuals or businesses—by offering them, through its brokers and advisors, the best solutions for meeting their financial protection needs at every stage of their lives.

Our clients are well protected thanks to our solid expertise and comprehensive offer, which gives them access to property/casualty, life and health insurance products. This helps them achieve their goals and plan for a secure future.

Every day at AXA, we renew our commitment to our clients by providing services that are available, attentive and reliable.

That is how AXA intends to make the difference, build clients’ confidence and achieve its ambition to become the preferred company.

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Complete Brokerage Services

Much has been made of the lack of training and development in the Life Insurance Industry in Canada today. Though the branch system of old has long disappeared, Complete Brokerage Services Inc. has created a new model which combines the best of the old with the best of the new. Career development (new agent to advanced planner), family feel, housing opportunities and full support are coupled with leading edge MGA brokerage services and systems to create an offering unlike any other. Our goal: to help our planners create the business they envision. At CBS, we help our planners transform their client's lives by giving them the tools to realign their client's financial expenditures with their core values. This results in a full trust relationship, high quality business, increased persistency and referred leads.

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The Co-operators

In 1945, a group of Saskatchewan wheat farmers built a co-operative insurance company now known as The Co-operators. A 100 per cent Canadian-owned company, The Co-operators offers auto, home, life, commercial, farm and group insurance, as well as investment products. Times may have changed, but our co-operative nature and commitment to corporate responsibility remain the same. Today, The Co-operators provides insurance to almost 1.6 million Canadians.

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Empire Life

We're committed to providing solutions for the changing financial security and wealth management needs of Canadians. That's our mission – that's what we do. We value integrity and accountability and strive to be an innovative, high-performance team, building relationships with our distribution partners and their clients. We offer a full range of financial products and services - including personal life insurance, critical illness coverage, investment options, group life and health benefits and group RSP plans.

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Nicola Wealth Management

Nicola Wealth Management is more than a financial planning firm. We offer sophisticated wealth management strategies that help business owners, professionals and other high net worth individuals reach their financial goals. Our proven cash flow approach to money management is enhanced by innovative planning to deliver greater tax efficiency and risk-adjusted returns. With locations in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver) and the Okanagan (Kelowna), Nicola Wealth provides executives, business owners and incorporated individuals across Canada with the full-service, integrated approach they require.

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QUS (Quality Underwriting Services)

Quality Underwriting Services Ltd (QUS). has been the industry leader since 1976 in providing paramedical and medical examinations, Inspection Reports and APS Collection Services for the Canadian Life Insurance Industry. With over 20 offices throughout Canada and our Affiliated offices in the United States and South East Asia, we are well positioned to complete any underwriting services required by our clients.

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Standard Life

Standard Life plc is a leading long-term savings and investment company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. Standard Life has around 6 million customers worldwide and operates in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, and globally with Standard Life Investments.

In Canada, Standard Life has been doing business for 178 years. Standard Life Financial Inc., which wholly owns The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada and Standard Life Mutual Funds Ltd., is Standard Life plc's largest operation outside the UK. With about 2,000 employees, it provides long-term savings, investment and insurance solutions to more than 1.4 million Canadians, including group benefit and retirement plan members.

As of March 31, 2011, Standard Life plc had C$309 billion in assets under administration, including C$41 billion in Canada through Standard Life Financial.

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ZLC Financial Group

ZLC Financial Group (formerly Zlotnik, Lamb & Company) traces its origins back to 1945, when Harold Zlotnik, CLU, entered the life insurance business. Harold's long term experience and knowledge is reflected today in the firm's mandate to act as an independent broker/buyer on behalf of its clients.

From its inception, the goal of ZLC Financial Group has been to build relationships with our clients and to earn their confidence through the delivery of high quality services and products using the expertise and experience of our associates and staff.

The associates and staff of ZLC Financial Group have developed a reputation for quality and professionalism. We are proud of our record. It is our mission to provide the best advice, service and products to our clients through our four divisions.

• ZLC Insurance & Retirement Solutions – providing tailored estate, financial and retirement planning solutions for individuals and business owners.
• ZLC Private Investment Management – offering a selection of top managed portfolios for high net worth individuals, business owners and foundations
• ZLC Employee Benefits – Assisting in the custom design and management of employer sponsored benefit and savings plans. Specializing in cost containment strategies for benefit plans
• ZLC Structured Settlements – Providing individually designed lifelong tax-free settlement solutions, to meet present and future needs of accident victims

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