Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Preface
• Introduction
• Salient Features of Labour-sponsored Investment Funds
  1. Responsiveness to public policy concerns
  2. Interest in Canadian private equity markets geared to risk
  3. Interest in addressing capital supply barriers to firms in certain sectors
  4. Organization and direction by a legitimate labour body
  5. Mandates that guide investments according to economic and social goals
  6. Capital resource mobilization on a provincial basis
  7. Participation by a broad base of average working people
  8. A commitment to provide market returns to shareholders
  9. Involvement of workers and unions in enterprise-based decisions
  10. Facilitation of co-operation between labour and business
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 1.1: Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ), Inc
• Appendix 1.2: Working Ventures Canadian Fund, Inc
• Appendix 1.3: Working Opportunity Fund (EVCC), Ltd
• Appendix 1.4: Crocus Investment Fund, Inc
• Appendix 1.5: Other Labour-sponsored Investment Funds in 1995
• Selected Bibliography
• Endnotes