The Business Development group is largely responsible for maintaining current client relationships, identifying and recruiting new investors to TD ICAV, and maintaining established ties with those investors. People from a wide variety of fields, including academic finance, investment consultancy, and institutional money management, comprise the group. In addition to providing prospects and customers with information about TD ICAV as a business, the members of the group are able to provide specific insights into the investment process and execution, current portfolio positioning, and research developments. Their collective vast variety of abilities makes this possible.

At TD ICAV, the engineering team, which accounts for 26% of the company's workforce, is actively involved in all parts of our business operations. Our order to design solutions that will not only help the business in the present but will also serve to expand and flourish in the future, our engineers work in collaboration with portfolio managers at every level, beginning with the conception of signals and ending with the execution of transactions. Our engineers help us successfully communicate performance by facilitating data visualization and reporting of world-class quality. They also help us effectively convey performance. Moreover, they are in charge of developing the systems and procedures that support risk management, reporting, and overall company operations. The team also ensured the smooth operation of the entire organization by managing the complex data lifecycle and supplying the daily productivity tools.

We host these tools, which include operating systems and communications, either on the premises or in the cloud. Our security engineers are responsible for safeguarding each and every one of these products from harm. Engineers at TD ICAV experience the entire lifecycle of their products, starting from their conception and concluding with their disposal.

The Facilities team is in charge of a wide range of essential services that are critical to the business's performance. This category of services includes the management of buildings and vendors, the provision of security and contingency plans, the coordination of space and construction, the supply of facilities and amenities, and the provision of reception and administrative assistance are all items that fall under this category of services.

TD ICAV's finance team is responsible for maintaining the necessary financial paperwork for the corporate entities it owns. Payroll, accounts payable, treasury, accounts receivable, internal and external financial and regulatory reporting, procurement, and tax are all areas covered by their jurisdiction. Furthermore, this team is responsible for managing relationships with TD ICAV's customers, third-party providers, financial institutions, and other counterparties.

The Human Resources department is in charge of the company's efforts to recruit, retain, and reward outstanding talent, as well as cultivate it. In order to provide a full suite of services, the team works together with each of the company's businesses to provide services such as workforce planning and recruiting, best practices for engaging and rewarding workers, the creation of competitive compensation and benefit programs, and employee advancement and development. Furthermore, human resources is responsible for providing management with counsel, developing initiatives to improve employee engagement and organizational culture, and supervising TD ICAV, which is the organization's own learning and development program for workers.

Legal Team

The legal team plays the role of an internal adviser, providing direction and oversight to all divisions within the corporation. The group assumes the responsibility of supervising both newly enacted and altered laws, while also offering guidance and assistance on a wide range of business-related matters. In addition to this, the team is now involved in the process of negotiating contracts and developing the structural framework for new goods that are linked with new business divisions.

Compliance Team

The compliance team at TD ICAV not only fulfills legal, regulatory, and fiduciary requirements, but also upholds the high ethical standards expected of all its workers. In addition to training and ongoing compliance education, the team is responsible for developing policies and procedures, identifying and guiding risks for business and operational entities, and providing regulatory compliance education. The compliance team at TD ICAV draws additional attention to the fact that the company is committed to maintaining a culture of compliance in the face of a constantly shifting legal and regulatory environment.

The marketing team is in charge of the company's brand management, corporate communications, digital strategy, design, and signature events as a part of business development. Additionally, they are responsible for the company's hallmark events. Utilizing a global communications platform to target all investment plans, locations, and client channels is the means by which it intends to accomplish its goal of increasing the company's visibility as well as acquiring and retaining clients. The marketing team is committed to offering the most innovative, scalable, and successful means of presenting the distinctive qualities of TD ICAV. These qualities include the company's competence in the business, its investment skills, the client solutions it offers, and its strong partnerships with the most prestigious academic institutions.

Operations is responsible for providing support for the company's trading, investing, and reporting operations. The operations team primarily aims to maintain a regulated operating environment, develop scalable investment procedures, and provide excellent support to both internal and external customers. In addition, the team offers assistance in the planning and implementation of firm-wide projects, as well as undertaking operational due diligence, managing counterparties, and engaging in activities connected to clients.

The team in charge of portfolio finance is accountable for the administration of the company's financing connections, as well as the supervision of the company's expenditures and the structure of its portfolio financing responsibilities. Furthermore, it creates non-traditional sources of financial support.

The implementation of TD ICAV's worldwide portfolios is the responsibility of the Portfolio Implementation team, which include optimization, development, and administration. The team works closely with researchers to develop new systematic investing methods and improve current ones. They achieve this by leveraging a realistic understanding of markets to influence portfolio implementation decisions. In addition to this, they are responsible for managing portfolios that encompass a wide range of asset classes and investment mandates within an atmosphere that encourages collaboration and intellectual stimulation. To supervise all operations at the portfolio level and manage the introduction of new investment mandates, the team works to coordinate among senior portfolio managers, client relationship managers, and key functional units.

The Global Alternative Premia (GAP) department, the Global Asset Allocation (GAA) department, and the Global Stock Selection (GSS) department are the three departments that make up our research. The GAP team is responsible for conducting research and executing the portfolio related to the alternative risk premia multi-strategies that the company employs. It is the responsibility of GAP researchers, some of whom are world-renowned academicians in the field of style premia, to enhance and develop investment processes. Researchers accomplish this by discovering new factors and refining the instruments used to evaluate current elements. The GAA team primarily focuses on portfolio management and research, both of which are associated with macro trading methods. This category includes methods for selecting countries and currencies, strategies for arbitraging fixed income, strategies for commodities, and credit strategies. In addition to managing TD ICAV's hedge funds, the team is also responsible for managing the overlay component of the company's multiple foreign and global equities mandates. TD ICAV's strategies pertaining to individual stocks and equity-related securities are the responsibility of the GSS team, which is responsible for maintaining the portfolio and conducting research on these strategies. Portfolios that use GSS models include long-only, relaxed-constraint, and low-volatility portfolios for institutional equity mandates and mutual funds. Market-neutral long/short portfolios of TD ICAV hedge funds are another example of portfolios that make use of GSS models

The Risk Management team is responsible for monitoring and managing the risks associated with firm-managed investments, including those related to the market, credit, liquidity, model, and funding. The team conducts a wide range of primary and macro-driven research. Some examples of this research include stress testing, scenario analysis, and hedging approaches. The team works closely with the company's portfolio managers to develop a comprehensive risk management strategy. This strategy encompasses macro, equity, credit, and derivatives markets.

The Global Trading Strategies team is tasked with executing TD ICAV's investment strategies in an effective manner. Traders, trading assistants, developers of trading infrastructure and algorithms, and academics studying market microstructure and short-term signals comprise the team. The team is responsible for developing and designing algorithmic trading techniques across a wide range of asset classes from a global perspective. The team conducts a transaction cost study of the multiple marketplaces in which TD ICAV trades to feed the transaction cost forecasting models. Through a collaborative effort with Portfolio Management, Research, Operations, Legal, and Credit, the Trading Group aims to create and maintain a trade execution platform that is both scalable and successful for all of the portfolios that TD ICAV administers.