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Toronto-based Front Street Capital has engaged Touchtone Group, LLC to be
its exclusive institutional marketing firm in the US. Front Street has
approximately $2.3 billion in assets under management and invests only in
Canadian equities, which tend to be heavily weighted towards energy and
resources. Front Street has developed extensive relationships with
management teams throughout the country combining a sophisticated global
macroeconomic viewpoint and comprehensive knowledge of the Canadian
corporate landscape with sound fundamental and technical analysis of
Canadian equities.
With its formation in October 2001, Front Street reunited two of Canada's
most prominent investment managers: Messrs. Mersch and Lamarche, who had
worked together from 1987 to 1995 at the Canadian investment firm Altamira
Investment Services Inc. Initially, Front Street managed investment products
for Canadian retail investors and selected institutions. In September 2003,
the Firm began marketing to non-Canadian institutional investors with the
launch of its Front Street Energy & Power Performance Fund (with present
assets of US$334 million and a 33.9% net return from inception to August
2006).
Front Street currently has three broad long-short equity strategies
available to non-Canadian investors including: diversified and
opportunistic, energy and resource sector-focused, and long-short Canadian
income trusts. Rapid Asian industrialization is driving, in part, the
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