Mr. Capra: We are now Putnam Lovell NBF, the financial services boutique of National Bank Financial, a Canadian-based firm that just recently acquired us. There's a very good strategic and cultural fit between the two firms. We're pretty excited about that and the integration's going really well. More specifically, I cover the life insurance segment, which we break up into four subsectors: life insurance, asset accumulation, life reinsurance and also the diversified insurers. We do plan on adding the Canadian life insurers sooner rather than later, as our focus will be on covering the North American life insurance market going forward.
TWST: Does that change the focus, the target audience for you in
your coverage?
Mr. Capra: It expands our distribution beyond the US and into
Canada. We also pick up some distribution in Europe, which we
didn't have prior to the transaction.
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