QAM Administrative Services Inc. - s. 13(3)(b) of the LTCA

Approval

Headnote

Paragraph 213(3)(b) of Loan and Trust Corporations Act -- Application for approval to act as trustee of pooled funds to be established and managed by the applicant and offered pursuant to a prospectus exemption.

Applicable Legislative Provisions

Loan and Trust Corporations Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. L.25, as am., s. 213(3)(b).

Rules Cited

Ontario Securities Commission Approval 81-901, Approval of Trustees of Mutual Fund Trusts (1997), 20 OSCB 200.

January 18, 2008

AIRD & BERLIS LLP
BCE Place, Suite 1800
Box 754, 181 Bay Street
Toronto, ON M5J 2T9
 
<<Attention:>>
<<Jennifer A. Wainwright>>

Dear Sirs/Mesdames:

Re:
QAM Administrative Services Inc. (the "Applicant")
Application for approval to a act as trustee pursuant to clause 213(3)(b) of the Loan and Trust Corporations Act (Ontario)
Application No. 2007/0755

Further to your application dated September 5, 2007 (the "Application") filed on behalf of the Applicant, and based on the facts set out in the Application, and the representation by the Applicant that the assets of any mutual fund trust established by the Applicant from time to time will be held in the custody of a bank listed in Schedule I, II or III of the Bank Act (Canada) or an affiliate of such bank, the Ontario Securities Commission (the "Commission") makes the following order:

Pursuant to the authority conferred on the Commission in clause 213(3)(b) of the Loan and Trust Corporations Act (Ontario), the Commission approves the proposal that the Applicant act as trustee of any mutual fund trust that may be established and managed by the Applicant from time to time, the securities of which will be offered pursuant to a prospectus exemption.

Yours truly,

"Robert Shirriff"
Ontario Securities Commission
 
"Margot Howard"
Ontario Securities Commission