Mount Logan Capital Inc. Strategically Expands Canadian Presence Appointing Scott Chan to Support Capital Markets and IR
September 03 2024 - 8:30AM
Mount Logan Capital Inc. (Cboe Canada: MLC) (“Mount Logan” or the
“Company”) today announced Scott Chan, CFA, MBA, joined the Company
as of August 2024. Mr. Chan's addition reflects Mount Logan’s focus
on strategically expanding relationships across the Canadian
financial services market, including broader investor outreach,
improved capital markets relationships and greater engagement with
strategic partners and platforms.
In his role as Director, Canada of Mount Logan,
Mr. Chan will be responsible for developing and executing upon
Mount Logan's efforts to increase its visibility in the markets in
which it operates, consistent with management’s stated
objectives.
Mount Logan's CEO, Ted Goldthorpe, expressed
confidence in the onboarding of Mr. Chan, emphasizing his 20+ years
of experience in asset management and financial services, both as
an investor and an operator.
An industry veteran, Mr. Chan has expertise in
buy- and sell- side analysis, institutional sales, and client
engagement. His track record includes a thirteen-year tenure as
Managing Director and Financial Services Equity Analyst at
Canaccord Genuity. During his time there, he provided comprehensive
coverage of Mount Logan alongside other industry peers, major
Canadian banks, and life insurance companies. Prior to his role at
Canaccord Genuity, Mr. Chan gained experience at various asset
management firms with diverse investment strategies, including
Acuity Investment Management and CI Financial Corp. A Chartered
Financial Analyst, Mr. Chan earned an Honors in Business
Administration and Commercial Studies from Western University and
an MBA from Concordia’s John Molson School of Business.
"I am thrilled to join Mount Logan's team.
Alternative asset management and insurance solutions are two of the
fastest-growing segments in finance today. There is a clear path
for solid organic growth supported by a stable, long-term capital
base, complemented by Mount Logan’s proactive approach towards
M&A in North America to add further scale,” commented Mr.
Chan.
About Mount Logan Capital Inc.
Mount Logan Capital Inc. is an alternative asset
management and insurance solutions company that is focused on
public and private debt securities in the North American market and
the reinsurance of annuity products, primarily through its
wholly-owned subsidiaries Mount Logan Management LLC (“ML
Management”) and Ability Insurance Company (“Ability”),
respectively. The Company also actively sources, evaluates,
underwrites, manages, monitors and primarily invests in loans, debt
securities, and other credit-oriented instruments that present
attractive risk-adjusted returns and present low risk of principal
impairment through the credit cycle.
Ability is a Nebraska domiciled insurer and
reinsurer of long-term care policies acquired by Mount Logan in the
fourth quarter of fiscal year 2021. Ability is unique in the
insurance industry in that its long-term care portfolio’s morbidity
risk has been largely re-insured to third parties, and Ability is
no longer insuring or re-insuring new long-term care risk.
Non-IFRS Financial Measures
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non-IFRS financial measures. These measures are not recognized
measures under IFRS, do not have a standardized meaning prescribed
by IFRS and may not be comparable to similar measures presented by
other companies. Rather, these measures are provided as additional
information to complement IFRS financial measures by providing
further understanding of the Company’s results of operations from
management’s perspective. The Company’s definitions of non-IFRS
measures used in this press release may not be the same as the
definitions for such measures used by other companies in their
reporting. Non-IFRS measures have limitations as analytical tools
and should not be considered in isolation nor as a substitute for
analysis of the Company’s financial information reported under
IFRS. The Company believes that securities analysts, investors and
other interested parties frequently use non-IFRS financial measures
in the evaluation of issuers. The Company’s management also uses
non-IFRS financial measures in order to facilitate operating
performance comparisons from period to period.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements
This press release contains forward-looking
statements and information within the meaning of applicable
securities legislation. Forward-looking statements can be
identified by the expressions “seeks”, “expects”, “believes”,
“estimates”, “will”, “target” and similar expressions. The
forward-looking statements are not historical facts but reflect the
current expectations of the Company regarding future results or
events and are based on information currently available to it.
Certain material factors and assumptions were applied in providing
these forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements
discussed in this release include, but are not limited to,
statements relating to the Company’s continued transition to an
asset management and insurance platform business and the entering
into of further strategic transactions to diversify the Company’s
business and further grow recurring management fee and other income
and increasing Ability’s assets; the Company’s plans to focus
Ability’s business on the reinsurance of annuity products; the
historical growth in the asset management segment and insurance
segment being an indicator for future growth; the growth and
scalability of the Company’s business the Company’s business
strategy, model, approach and future activities; portfolio
composition and size, asset management activities and related
income, capital raising activities, future credit opportunities of
the Company, portfolio realizations, the protection of stakeholder
value; the potential benefits of the onboarding of Mr. Chan;. All
forward-looking statements in this press release are qualified by
these cautionary statements. The Company believes that the
expectations reflected in forward-looking statements are based upon
reasonable assumptions; however, the Company can give no assurance
that the actual results or developments will be realized by certain
specified dates or at all. These forward-looking statements are
subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results or events to differ materially from current
expectations, including that the Company has a limited operating
history with respect to an asset management oriented business
model; Ability may not generate recurring asset management fees,
increase its assets or strategically benefit the Company as
expected; the expected synergies by combining the business of Mount
Logan with the business of Ability may not be realized as expected;
the risk that Ability may require a significant investment of
capital and other resources in order to expand and grow the
business; the Company does not have a record of operating an
insurance solutions business and is subject to all the risks and
uncertainties associated with a broadening of the Company’s
business and the matters discussed under “Risks Factors” in the
most recently filed annual information form and management
discussion and analysis for the Company. Readers, therefore, should
not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements.
Further, a forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on
which such statement is made. The Company undertakes no obligation
to publicly update any such statement or to reflect new information
or the occurrence of future events or circumstances except as
required by securities laws. These forward-looking statements are
made as of the date of this press release.
This press release is not, and under no
circumstances is it to be construed as, a prospectus or an
advertisement and the communication of this release is not, and
under no circumstances is it to be construed as, an offer to sell
or an offer to purchase any securities in the Company or in any
fund or other investment vehicle. This press release is not
intended for U.S. persons. The Company’s shares are not and will
not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and the Company is not and will not be registered under
the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”). U.S.
persons are not permitted to purchase the Company’s shares absent
an applicable exemption from registration under each of these Acts.
In addition, the number of investors in the United States, or which
are U.S. persons or purchasing for the account or benefit of U.S.
persons, will be limited to such number as is required to comply
with an available exemption from the registration requirements of
the 1940 Act.
Contacts:Mount Logan Capital
Inc.365 Bay Street, Suite 800Toronto, ON M5H
2V1info@mountlogancapital.ca
Nikita KlassenChief Financial
OfficerNiktia.Klassen@mountlogancapital.ca
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