Mackenzie GLC Team

Mackenzie GLC Team

We believe we can deliver strong investment results through a combination of top-down macro analysis and fundamental bottom-up stock research.

Strategies under management

U.S. Dividend

Canadian Concentrated Growth Equity

Canadian Concentrated Pure Dividend

Philosophy and process

The Mackenzie GLC Team blends top-down macro-level analysis with fundamental bottom-up stock analysis. We seek to identify industry risks, competitive opportunities and macro trends to influence sector allocations. This top-down view is augmented by a disciplined and thorough fundamental due diligence process to identify companies that are positioned to outperform. Within well-defined risk parameters, the team seeks out companies across the market cap spectrum and will take meaningful positions in specific companies when opportunities present themselves.

Portfolio managers

Patricia Nesbitt

CFA, Senior Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Patricia joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). She oversees a team of senior equity portfolio managers, analysts and research experts who she’s been leading since 1991. She’s also the lead portfolio manager for the Canadian All Cap Growth equity mandate and has been associated with the portfolio since she joined the GLC team in 1987.

Patricia is a CFA charterholder and holds an honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba. She’s also a former president of the Winnipeg Society of Financial Analysts, past chair of the Winnipeg Humane Society and recipient of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women award.

Clayton Bittner

CFA, Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Clayton joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). Clayton is the lead portfolio manager for Canadian and U.S. dividend strategies.

Clayton joined the GLC team in 2006 and brings more than 20 years of industry experience to the portfolio management team.

Clayton is a CFA charterholder and a Licensed International Financial Analyst. He also holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba.

Dylan Fricker

Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Dylan joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). Dylan is the lead manager of the SRI Canadian Equity portfolio and assists in portfolio management of other Canadian equity portfolios including the Canadian All Cap Growth Equity strategy.

He began his career in investment management and research in 1999 and has worked with the GLC Canadian equity portfolio management team since 2007. Dylan is a CFA charterholder and earned an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Regina.

 

Bryan Shearer

CFA , Associate Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Bryan joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). Bryan is the lead portfolio manager for the Canadian Mid Cap equity mandate.

Bryan became a key member of GLC's Canadian equity team in 2001. For over a decade he has worked with the Canadian mid-cap portfolio management team where he developed experience and in-depth knowledge of this unique sector of the Canadian market.

Bryan is a CFA charterholder and earned an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba.

Bradford Cann

CFA, Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Brad joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). Brad is the lead portfolio manager for the pure Canadian dividend portfolio strategy.

Brad began his investment career in 1989. Since joining GLC in 2007, his career focus on yield-oriented equities has translated into a disciplined approach to investing in dividend-paying, quality companies through deep fundamental analysis.

Brad earned an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier and an MBA from Queen's University. He is also a CFA charterholder.

Ben Fawcett

CFA, Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Ben joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). Ben is the lead portfolio manager for several equity growth portfolios.

He joined the GLC portfolio management team in 2004, bringing with him almost a decade of industry experience covering Europe, the U.K and Canada, where he refined his deep fundamental investment process.

Ben is a CFA charterholder and earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree (co-op) from the University of Victoria and an MBA from York University.

Brenda Nicholls

CFA, Associate Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Brenda joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). Brenda co-manages the science and technology portfolio.  

Brenda is a CFA charterholder and earned an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba. She also holds a Chartered Market Technician designation.

Martin Rose

CFA, Associate Vice-President, Portfolio Manager
Mackenzie GLC Team

Martin joined Mackenzie in 2021 through the acquisition of GLC Asset Management (GLC). Martin co-manages the science and technology portfolio strategy.

Martin joined GLC’s equity team in 2006 and has focused on U.S. equities. He brings more than 16 years of industry experience to the team.

Martin is a CFA charterholder and has an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Manitoba.

Insights

insights

Oh Canada! A case for optimism in Canadian active management

The core feature of any market-weighted index is that its returns are linked directly to its largest members by market cap. Any passive investor or allocator to that index, by definition, will have their prospective returns similarly linked to those major constituents.