Brookfield Asset Management Inc. is pleased to announce that Keith Smith has joined the company as senior vice president, Private Funds Group. He will be based in Toronto and be responsible for coverage of Brookfield’s Canadian institutional investor clients.

Smith joins Brookfield from General Electric, where he was president of GE Asset Management Canada and responsible for a multi-strategy platform with more than $5 billion of assets under management. Under Smith’s leadership, GE Asset Management consistently ranked as a leading institutional asset manager in Canada.

At Brookfield, Smith will assume client coverage from Brookfield senior vice president Eric Bonnor, who is moving to Brazil to manage investor relations and fundraising in Brookfield’s Brazilian investments.