The following is a snapshot of our primary asset classes:

• Cash and Equivalents
  Valley Vista's strategy is to seek stable income with little or no risk to principal. We invest domestically and internationally in a variety of securities and currencies.
   
• Fixed Income
  Valley Vista's strategy is to seek incremental return potential over Cash and Equivalents, while maintaining a controlled risk to principal. We regularly invest across the entire fixed income spectrum on a global scale, including sovereigns, agencies, corporates, high yield, mezzanine, distressed and structured securities.
   
• Mortgages and Construction Financing
  Valley Vista is a non-bank lender providing residential and commercial real estate finance. We pursue a strategy of growth through investments in selected niche markets that are under serviced by large lending institutions. Our geographic focus is on the Greater Toronto Area and other markets in Southwestern Ontario. We selectively invest in other Canadian and US markets. We provide direct bridge financing, construction lending, 1ST & 2ND mortgages, and acquire Vendor-Take-Back loans in addition to participating in syndicated financings and managed mortgage funds.
   
• Real Assets
  Valley Vista's strategy is to develop innovative investments across the real assets spectrum, which includes a broad range of traditional real estate, energy and natural resources. Currently, our real estate strategies focus on opportunistic and value focused situations across all types of real estate assets primarily in Southwestern Ontario. Our energy investing is focused on a broad base of oil, gas and alternative energy opportunities, while our natural resource investing is focused on timberland, metals, water, agriculture and land primarily in Canada.
   
• Equities
  Valley Vista's strategy is to develop, implement and manage value driven investment strategies in publicly traded companies, and seek to provide consistent positive returns on our invested capital. We tend to be driven less by relative returns to the benchmarks, but by absolute returns on our capital. Our philosophy is to invest in companies, not markets, and as such we are focused on long-term investing rather than trading. We also invest with long equity fund managers in Canada, the United States, and abroad.
   
• Absolute Return
  Valley Vista's strategy is to work with the best in class global investment managers to create absolute returns and capital growth with low correlations to traditional asset classes. Currently, we are focused on long-short equity, forex, arbitrage, event-driven, pure absolute return and macro- and multi-strategies across the equities, fixed income and CTA / commodities spectrum.
   
• Private Equity
  Through our affiliated venture capital firm, Aprilis Ventures, direct investments in seed and early-stage technology companies are made with a focus on Internet businesses. We also work with a broad range of traditional private equity and venture capital investors to seek out and invest in excellent companies via the private market. We are flexible on the ultimate method of investing, such as equity, debt or hybrids, and are interested in special situations such as going-private opportunities, recapitalizations, restructurings and private placements.