Corporate Profile
Qwest Investment Management Corp. ("QIM") is an investment management firm which specializes in identifying, structuring and managing investment
products. QIM is currently focused on investments in the natural resource sector.
QIM’s executive management team has over 100 years of combined experience in corporate and financial product structuring
and investment management which provides the team with the skills required to evaluate and profitably manage the risk and
rewards inherent in the capital market industry.
QIM is the parent company of both Heritage Bancorp Ltd., a company which provides administrative services, and Qwest
Investment Fund Management Ltd., a company which provides investment advisory and portfolio management services.
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QWEST'S INVESTMENT PRODUCTS
Oil & Gas and Mining Sectors
Flow-Through Funds – Qwest Investment Management Corp. ("QIM") is an industry leader in the
structuring, marketing and management of tax-effective flow-through products. QIM launched its first flow-through
offering in 2003 and has successfully completed ten flow-through offerings since that time. The Portfolio Management
Team continues to be strategically focused on investing in flow-through shares issued by Canadian resource companies
including oil and gas and mining growth companies. The focus is on those companies which have: experienced management
teams; focused assets and production growth opportunities; qualified land and operational teams; a risk management
strategy, and management with capital markets expertise and financial acumen.
Mutual Fund – QIM launched their first mutual fund in the spring of 2006 to accommodate
the rollover of QIM's numerous flow-through offerings to a mutual fund. When QE Funds Corp., a mutual
fund corporation, was launched it offered Series A shares of the corporation, the Qwest Energy Canadian Resource
Class shares. QE Funds Corp., offering Series A shares of Qwest Energy Canadian Resource Class,
may acquire assets of limited partnerships on a tax-deferred basis that have an adjusted cost base that is less
than the amount paid for these assets. The Mutual Fund will invest primarily in the energy and resource sector, which involves companies engaged in
industries such as oil and gas, mining and minerals, forestry, alternative energy and other resources.
Shares of the mutual fund are only available to the rollover of past and
future QIM flow-through limited partnerships and their limited partners who roll over into the mutual fund.
Therefore, shares of the mutual fund are not available to any other investors.
Specialty Fund – The Qwest Energy Canadian Specialty Energy Fund was
specifically designed for Canadian accredited investors with a continuous offering of
Series A and F Units on a private placement basis. The investment focus of
this fund is the energy industry. The fund will acquire and manage equity investments and convertible debt
securities in private (i.e. up to 30% private companies) and publicly traded companies focused on conventional
oil and gas exploration and development, the oil sands, unconventional types including CBM (coal-bed methane),
oil and gas services, transportation and infrastructure and alternative energy. Please note: the Qwest Energy
Canadian Specialty Energy Fund has stopped accepting new sales until further notice. Please visit our website at a later date for
availability of our next specialty offering.
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