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# Brookfield: Backbone of the global economy

Connor Teskey, President, Asset Management, Brookfield

Transcript: Brookfield: Backbone of the global economy

Connor Teskey:

Alternatives have delivered attractive returns and downside protection for institutional investors for more than two decades. We want to give everyone access to that same opportunity.

[TITLE CARD: Backbone of the GLOBAL ECONOMY]

Connor Teskey:

At Brookfield, we focus on investing in...

[TITLE CARD: Connor Teskey, President, Asset Management, Brookfield]

Connor Teskey:

...the backbone of the global economy: infrastructure, energy and real estate. Across all of those verticals, growth is bigger today than ever before. We put money to work on behalf of our clients as an owner and operator of critical assets that allow economies and communities around the world to grow.

Bruce Flatt:

We're investing for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 100 years into the future.

[TITLE CARD: Bruce Flatt, CEO, Brookfield]

Bruce Flatt:

When you're investing for the very long term, you can't have partners that quit on you halfway through. And WF has been an incredibly supportive partner through many cycles.

Darin Deschamps:

Brookfield and WF...

[TITLE CARD: Darin Deschamps, Managing Director, WF Corporate & Investment Banking]

Darin Deschamps:

...have had a relationship that is over 30 years old. We provide Brookfield with M&A advice, bank capital, capital markets, as well as risk management products.

Connor Teskey:

WF brings an alignment, a reliability and a scale that is very complementary to what we do at Brookfield...

[GRAPHIC ON SCREEN: $1+ trillion Brookfield AUM; $2+ trillion WF balance sheet 2025]

Connor Teskey:

...that very few institutions around the world can match. They're helping us in delivering alternatives to the broader market, to the individual investor.

Darin Deschamps:

That same long-term thinking that Brookfield has been bringing to bear for institutions, they can now bring to individuals through investment advisors and channels that WF has.

Bruce Flatt:

We invest a trillion dollars on behalf of individuals. By putting these private assets into their portfolio, we can lower the risk, and we can earn them extra returns. People write to me, and they tell me about how we changed their life. And that’s a pretty, pretty great thing.

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Institutional investors have benefited from inclusion of private assets in their portfolios for decades. Now, as growth accelerates in digitalization, deglobalization and decarbonization, Brookfield is evolving its solutions to offer everyone access to that same opportunity to invest in the backbone of the new economy.

### Delivering alternatives to the broader market

Transcript: Delivering alternatives to the broader market

Connor Teskey:

At Brookfield, we focus on investing in...

[TITLE CARD: Connor Teskey, President, Asset Management, Brookfield]

Connor Teskey:

...the backbone of the global economy. Infrastructure, energy and real estate. We want to give everyone access to the largest investment themes in alternatives. WF brings...

[TITLE CARD: Darin Deschamps, Managing Director, WF Corporate & Investment Banking]

Connor Teskey:

...an alignment, a reliability and a scale...

[GRAPHIC ON SCREEN: $1+ trillion Brookfield AUM; $2 trillion WF balance sheet 2025]

Connor Teskey:

...that is very complementary to what we do at Brookfield. That very few institutions around the world can match. They're helping us in delivering alternatives to the broader market. That’s exciting every day.

Close with music

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Sponsored by WF Corporate & Investment Banking

The Next Horizon

Brookfield

bloomberg.com/thenexthorizon

WF Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) and WF Securities (WFS) are the trade names used for the corporate banking, capital markets, and investment banking services of WF & Company and its subsidiaries, including but not limited to WF Securities, LLC, member of NYSE, FINRA, NFA, and SIPC, WF Prime Services, LLC, member of FINRA, NFA and SIPC, and WF Bank, N.A., member NFA and swap dealer registered with the CFTC and security-based swap dealer registered with the SEC, member FDIC. WF Securities, LLC and WF Prime Services, LLC, are distinct entities from affiliated banks and thrifts. © 2026 WF & Company.

Connor Teskey, President, Asset Management, Brookfield

### Helping individual investors

Transcript: Helping individual investors

Darin Deschamps:

At WF...

[TITLE CARD: Darin Deschamps, Managing Director, WF Corporate & Investment Banking]

Darin Deschamps:

...we deploy capital strategically to help clients scale.

Darin Deschamps:

For companies like Brookfield, we provide M&A advice...

[TITLE CARD: Connor Teskey, President, Asset Management, Brookfield]

Darin Deschamps:

...bank capital, capital markets, as well as risk management products. That same long-term thinking that Brookfield has been bringing to institutions, they can now bring to individuals through investment advisors and channels that WF has. We’re helping individual investors invest in the backbone of the new economy.

Close with music

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Sponsored by WF Corporate & Investment Banking

The Next Horizon

Brookfield

bloomberg.com/thenexthorizon

WF Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) and WF Securities (WFS) are the trade names used for the corporate banking, capital markets, and investment banking services of WF & Company and its subsidiaries, including but not limited to WF Securities, LLC, member of NYSE, FINRA, NFA, and SIPC, WF Prime Services, LLC, member of FINRA, NFA and SIPC, and WF Bank, N.A., member NFA and swap dealer registered with the CFTC and security-based swap dealer registered with the SEC, member FDIC. WF Securities, LLC and WF Prime Services, LLC, are distinct entities from affiliated banks and thrifts. © 2026 WF & Company.

Darin Deschamps, Head: WF Securities Canada, Ltd.

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