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Name Firm Group / Desk Seniority Email Channel LinkedIn DM Email Text Call In-person Other Relevance FO - GM FO - IB FO - Buy-side FO - Other MO - CM MO - Other BO Other Degree How you know First email subject First email Hi Chloe, My name is Harman, and I'm a Math & Finance double degree student at Waterloo. Your portfolio construction work at OMERS lines up with my hedge-fund alpha-quality research, and I'm trying to position myself for public-markets and portfolio-construction roles because I want to understand how research becomes an allocation decision. In that work, I've been separating residual alpha from beta exposure and regime effects under Prof. Phelim Boyle. I was curious how the ideation chain works on your team when a signal moves from research into a total-portfolio decision, and what internal audience the analysis needs to be clear enough for. Would you be open to a quick 10-15 minute call sometime over the next couple of weeks? Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca Follow-up email subject Follow-up email Hi Chloe, Wanted to follow up on my note. I reached out because your OMERS portfolio construction work is close to how I'm trying to understand when research is strong enough to affect an allocation decision. If you have 10-15 minutes over the next couple of weeks, I'd be grateful to hear how that operational chain works on your team and what makes analysis useful to the actual portfolio decision. Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca LinkedIn connection message conditional LinkedIn follow-up DM conditional Regeneration note

Name Firm Group / Desk Seniority Email Channel LinkedIn DM Email Text Call In-person Other Relevance FO - GM FO - IB FO - Buy-side FO - Other MO - CM MO - Other BO Other Degree How you know First email subject First email Hi Carlo, My name is Harman, and I'm a Math & Finance double degree student at Waterloo. Your ETF trading work at CIBC lines up with my market-data and volatility research, and I'm trying to position myself for equities trading roles, especially in ETF/liquidity seats where execution quality and market structure matter day to day. Through one-minute market data work and Laurier Trading Group, I've been focused on how a market view becomes actionable rather than just analytically interesting. I was curious how the operational chain looks on your ETF desk when liquidity or execution signals turn into a trading decision, and what type of client or market flow matters most. Would you be open to a quick 10-15 minute call sometime over the next couple of weeks? Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca Follow-up email subject Follow-up email Hi Carlo, Wanted to follow up on my note. I reached out because your ETF trading work is directly relevant to how I'm trying to understand market structure and desk-useful execution analysis. If you have 10-15 minutes over the next couple of weeks, I'd be grateful to hear how the operational chain works on an ETF desk and what types of flow or execution problems junior people learn from fastest. Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca LinkedIn connection message conditional LinkedIn follow-up DM conditional Regeneration note

Name Firm Group / Desk Seniority Email Channel LinkedIn DM Email Text Call In-person Other Relevance FO - GM FO - IB FO - Buy-side FO - Other MO - CM MO - Other BO Other Degree How you know First email subject First email Hi Alessio, My name is Harman, and I'm a Math & Finance double degree student at Waterloo. Your STIR/FX trading experience at Scotiabank lines up with the macro/rates work I did for Citadel's FI & Macro challenge. I'm trying to position myself for rates and FX markets roles, since I've developed DSGEs and VAR models to model central-bank views and want to understand how those implications feed into positioning and client-flow desk discussions. At Laurier Trading Group, I've also had to think about how a market view becomes clear enough to express as a trade idea. I was curious how the ideation chain works on your desk when policy expectations and cross-asset positioning shift, and how client flow changes the way those views are framed. Would you be open to a quick 10-15 minute call sometime over the next couple of weeks? Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca Follow-up email subject Follow-up email Hi Alessio, Wanted to follow up on my note. I reached out because your STIR/FX trading experience is close to how I'm trying to understand macro views and relative value in a real desk setting. If you have 10-15 minutes over the next couple of weeks, I'd be grateful to hear how the ideation chain works when a policy view becomes actionable for a rates or FX desk. Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca LinkedIn connection message conditional LinkedIn follow-up DM conditional Regeneration note

Name Firm Group / Desk Seniority Email Channel LinkedIn DM Email Text Call In-person Other Relevance FO - GM FO - IB FO - Buy-side FO - Other MO - CM MO - Other BO Other Degree How you know First email subject First email Hi Alessandro, My name is Harman, and I'm a Math & Finance double degree student at Waterloo. Your equity derivatives sales work at RBC lines up with my volatility forecasting research, and I'm trying to position myself for equity-derivatives or markets roles, especially interested in how client hedging needs shape vol ideas. My quant work has focused on HAR-RV extensions and VIX term-structure research, and I'm also joining RBC this fall in an Investment Product Analytics / Data Analyst capacity. I was curious how the ideation chain works on your team when a vol or hedging idea moves from market view into a client conversation, and what types of clients or internal partners shape that discussion. Would you be open to a quick 10-15 minute call sometime over the next couple of weeks? Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca Follow-up email subject Follow-up email Hi Alessandro, Wanted to follow up on my note. I reached out because your RBC equity derivatives sales work is relevant to how I'm trying to understand volatility research in a client-facing desk context. If you have 10-15 minutes over the next couple of weeks, I'd be grateful to hear how the ideation chain works when a vol or hedging idea becomes useful enough for a real client discussion. Warm regards, Harman Singh h56singh@uwaterloo.ca LinkedIn connection message conditional LinkedIn follow-up DM conditional Regeneration note