How large does the reserve have to be, and what happens in the year it is not?
Strategic Asset Management — from building condition to board decision.
Join us in Edmonton or Calgary, November 2026. Presented by Dewling Strategies Inc. Sponsored by Encasa Financial Inc.
The two sessions
Edmonton · Wednesday 25 November 2026. Sandman Signature Edmonton South, Great Room 3, 10111 Ellerslie Road SW. Doors 9:15 am, start 9:30 am.
Calgary · Friday 27 November 2026, morning. Ralph Klein Park, hosted by kind arrangement with the City of Calgary. Doors 9:15 am, start 9:30 am.
Most housing boards can say what their buildings are worth. Far fewer can say what it will cost to keep them standing for twenty-five years, or the year the reserve runs short. The financial statements are silent on it, and a building condition assessment gives you a list, not a decision.
Sixty minutes, in two parts, takes a live case from a building condition assessment to a reserve target, a draw schedule and a motion, worked on screen in a model you take home. No finance or engineering background needed.
Encasa Financial then takes forty-five minutes on the question that follows: once you know how large the reserve has to be and the year you need it, how should the money be held?
What you leave with
- a reserve target, and the funded ratio against what is held today
- the year the reserve is exhausted, usually inside the term of directors sitting in the room
- the annual contribution that closes the gap
- a draw schedule, and a motion written out in full
Plus the workbook, the participant guide and the board decision package, to use on your own portfolio.
Programme
| 9:15 am | Doors open |
| 9:30 am | Welcome and sponsor acknowledgement · 5 min |
| 9:35 am | Strategic Asset Management, part 1. Greg Dewling, President, Dewling Strategies Inc. · 40 min |
| 10:15 am | Refreshment break · 15 min |
| 10:30 am | Strategic Asset Management, part 2 · 20 min |
| 10:50 am | Reserves and investment strategy. Encasa Financial Inc., questions included. · 45 min |
| 11:35 am | Networking · 45 min |
Same programme in both cities.
Registration is free.
Sponsored by
Encasa Financial is an investment manager created specifically for Canada’s community housing providers — mission, not commission-driven. Owned by Housing Services Corporation and CHF Canada.
Greg Dewling
President, Dewling Strategies Inc.
greg@dewlingstrategies.ca · 780-907-4542
Spruce Grove, Alberta
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