As President and Chief Investment Officer at Empire Life Investments Inc. Paul leads both the equity and fixed income investment teams who collectively manage certain Empire Life segregated funds1 and the insurance company’s general funds.

As Senior Vice-President and Chief Investment Officer at Empire Life, Paul Holba is responsible for the management and oversight of Empire Life’s assets. In addition to being a member of Empire Life’s Executive Leadership Team he also sits on the Asset Management Committee and Product Review Management Committee of Empire Life. He continues to work closely with distribution partners to communicate strategies and results.

He joined Empire Life’s retail distribution division in 2009, moving into the Vice- President, Investments role with Empire Life Investments Inc. in 2010. Prior to that, Paul was the Vice-President, Retail Distribution.

Before joining Empire Life, he spent more than 20 years working in the Canadian investment industry through progressively senior roles with global investment management firms and the asset management division of a major Canadian bank.

Paul has a Bachelor of Mathematics with a specialty in business from the University of Waterloo. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the Toronto CFA Society.

_{¹ Policies are issued by The Empire Life Insurance Company.}