By Cheryl Long
Produced byTom Cunningham
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When Frank Baylis and Kris Shah, two highly successful Canadian busi-
nessmen, decided to sell one of their companies and invest the profits,
they soon discovered that the practices being employed by many invest-
ment managers didn’t sit well with their own ideas about wealth manage-
ment.
Their solution was to invest and manage the money internally by founding
their own family investment office. In 2010, they hired Talbot Babineau to
execute their vision: build and manage a portfolio that would produce con-
sistent and attractive returns while preserving their original hard-earned
capital. Based in downtown Toronto,the family office evolved to become
an independent boutique investment management firm under the name
IBV Capital, and shortly after opened up to external investors interested in
investing alongside the two families.
“We had a tremendous amount of success over the years as a family
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