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TORONTO, February 26, 2002 -- Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, AIC Limited, will be the featured speaker in the fifth session of the Rotman Integrative Thinking Series offered at the University of Toronto's Joseph L. Rotman School of Management.

What?       Rotman Integrative Thinking Seminar Series with Michael Lee-Chin, Chairman, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, AIC Limited

When?      February 28, 2002, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Where?      Ground Floor, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario

Media?      To attend please contact Ken McGuffin, 416.946.3818 or mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

The Rotman School offers the Rotman Integrative Thinking Seminar Series to educate its graduate and doctoral students, faculty, alumni and the rest of the business community and to showcase leading integrative thinkers. Solving complex problems and making robust decisions in a turbulent business environment requires integrative thinking skills. In addition to having knowledge of specific functional disciplines, we believe that business leaders need to develop the ability to create mental linkages to understand the disciplines together. Through innovative research and with leading faculty, the Rotman School is developing and implementing the world's first curriculum for teaching integrative thinking.

Michael Lee-Chin is Chairman, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of AIC Limited. He acquired AIC Limited in 1987 and has taken the organization from $1 million to more than $15 billion in assets under management.

Mr. Lee-Chin graduated from McMaster University in 1974 with a degree in Civil Engineering. He entered the financial services industry as a financial advisor. As AIC's Chief Investment Officer, he re-engineered the design of the AIC Advantage Fund to reflect its current philosophy and strategy of investing in a concentrated number of great businesses and focusing on the wealth management industry. Much like his mentor, Warren Buffett, Lee-Chin is strong in his convictions. "To be a successful investor you need to look to people who have a lineage of success - a role model," he says. "Then, ask the role model how they did it. How did they become successful? Then simply do the same."

Lee-Chin is also the architect of the AIC Value Fund, which he oversaw from inception to 1997. Currently, he has direct responsibility for AIC Advantage Fund, AIC Advantage Fund II, AIC Canadian Focused Fund and the AIC Canadian Balanced Fund in addition to his oversight duties with all AIC Funds. In 1997 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year for Services.

For more information on this and other upcoming events at the Rotman School, please visit the Rotman School's event page at www.rotman.utoronto.ca/news/events.htm.

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