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Amber Kanwar is the host of a brand new investing podcast, In the Money with Amber Kanwar. She is one of Canada’s most trusted and recognizable business journalists. For over a decade, she was a familiar face on Canada’s flagship business channel, BNN Bloomberg. She has appeared as a contributor on CTV and Bloomberg in the US. She has interviewed hundreds of portfolio managers, CEOs, political leaders and newsmakers.

Valerie Grimba runs the Global ETF Sales and Strategy team at RBC Capital Markets. In this role, she is responsible for providing solutions to help RBC’s institutional clients better understand and implement ETF strategies. She also works closely with ETF issuers to help facilitate ETF trading and create markets for their ETF products. Valerie has more than 15 years of global institutional sales and trading experience, spanning trading floors across Canada, the US and Australasia.

Valerie received her HBA with distinction from the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University, and has attained several global market accreditations with the ability to trade on numerous international equity exchanges including Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand.

Matt joined the BMO ETF portfolio management team in 2012, specializing in fixed income. He is currently the team lead for all fixed income portfolios managed by BMO ETFs. In his role as portfolio manager and trader, Matt, and his team, are responsible for all segments of the fixed income market, both in Canada and internationally. Matt has over a decade of industry experience in managing and trading Canadian federal, provincial, corporate and real return bonds; US Treasury and corporate bonds, both investment grade and high yield (cash bonds and CDX); as well as, emerging market debt. Matt has spent his entire career at BMO joining the bank in 2009. Matt holds an HBA and MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and is a CFA Charter holder.

Jessica is a sought-after millennial money expert, Accredited Financial Counsellor Canada®, media personality, and host of the popular More Money Podcast.

Like many millennials, Jessica graduated university during the Great Recession with student loans to pay off, no job, and zero idea how money worked. As it turned out, she wasn’t alone. The lack of relatable and non-judgemental financial advice available inspired her to found MoorMoney Media Inc., a financial education company that includes online courses, her signature event series the Millennial Money Meetup®, a YouTube channel, and one of the leading podcasts in Canada with over 2 million downloads – the More Money Podcast.

Jessica is also a regular on-air TV personality on CTV News’ Mind the Gap panel and BNN Bloomberg, has been quoted by the media as a money expert hundreds of times, and often works as an influencer with big financial brands such as TD, BMO, PC Financial, and Quickbooks.

Jennifer has been with BMO Capital Markets Economics for over two decades and is perhaps best known for her analysis on the U.S. economy, as well as her commentary analyzing financial market and economic activity in Europe and Japan. Her entertaining, easy-to-understand and call-it-like-it-is writing style has earned her a devoted following. Jennifer is also one of the primary authors of the Department’s hugely popular daily AM Notes, providing analysis of major global economic and political events. She is also co-author of Rates Scenario, covering currencies and markets outside of the U.S. and Canada. Jennifer is also a regular in the media and is a frequent guest on Bloomberg.

Prior to joining BMO, Jennifer was an economist at another Canadian bank for a few years in economic research. Jennifer graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.