Deborah Frame, CFA, MBA
President
Deborah heads ETF Strategy for the FGAM Team. She is involved in all aspects of the portfolio modeling process with primary responsibility for communication of FGAM’s ETF Portfolio positioning. Deborah has held senior executive positions over the past 30 years at a number of major Canadian life insurance and investment firms and has sat as a board member of both public and private companies. She was Chief Investment Officer at a Canadian life insurance company prior to moving to Cougar Global Investments, a Global Tactical ETF Portfolio Strategist in 2009, where she was Vice President Investments. She holds an MBA from York University with a concentration in Finance and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Business from the University of Guelph. She is a CFA Charterholder.
Deborah was the first Co-Head of the Canadian Chapter of Women in ETFs. Founded in January 2014, Women in ETFs encourages and supports women in the ETF industry in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific.