TSX:AD.UN (Alaris Equity Partners Income Trust)

Alaris' investment and investing activity refers to providing, through the Acquisition Entities, structured equity to private companies (' Partners ') to meet their business and capital objectives, which includes management buyouts, dividend recapitalization, growth and acquisitions. Alaris achieves this by investing its unitholder capital, as well as debt, through the Acquisition Entities, in exchange for distributions, dividends or interest (collectively, ' Distributions ') as well as capital appreciation on both preferred and common equity. The principal objective is to generate predictable cash flows for distribution payments to its unitholders while growing net book value through returns from capital appreciation. Distributions, other than common equity Distributions, from the Partners are adjusted annually based on the percentage change of a 'top-line' financial performance measure such as gross margin or same store sales and rank in priority to common equity position.