Prudence, Patience and Jobs would not have been possible without the generous help of a great number of individuals and organizations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere internationally.
Firstly, the CLMPC acknowledges, with thanks, the financial contribution of the Labour- Management Partnerships Program of Human Resources Development Canada.
Secondly, it is important to note that the research contained in Prudence, Patience and Jobs has relied heavily on interviews conducted over 1997-98. Informants included representatives of academe, research and market analysis agencies, business and labour constituencies, federal and provincial governments, not to mention the community of pension trustees, money managers, advisers and regulators. For a comprehensive list of these, see Key Project Informants. The CLMPC warmly acknowledges this sharing of expertise.
Special thanks to those who contributed extensively to CLMPC research by supplying data and analysis, advice on key issues, and/or feedback on report drafts. This includes project consultants Mary Macdonald (Macdonald & Associates), Bob Baldwin and Dick Martin (Canadian Labour Congress) and Gordon Sharwood (Sharwood and Company). Regular contributors also included such senior pension fiduciaries as Darcie Beggs, Drew Bucknall, Bill Clark, Lynn Clark, Ian Collier, Jean-Claude Cyr, Heather Gavin, Russell Hiscock, Michael Lay, Andreé Mayrand, Michel Nadeau, Doug Pearce and Don Walcot, as well as Keith Douglas of the Pension Investment Association of Canada (PIAC). Also included are capital market researchers Randy Barber, Tessa Hebb, Ted Jackson, Regina Markey, and Allan Riding, pension analysts Keith Ambachtsheer and Isla Carmichael and market practitioners Michael Brown, Peter Friend, Kevin McKenna, Robert Olsen, David Podmore, Hugh Rorison, Tony Stephens, Bob Tattersall, Sebastian Van Berkom and Sam Znaimer.
Thanks to PIAC and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) for in-kind and other resources dedicated to the production of two surveys (see Introduction), as well as those PIAC members and labour trustees that participated in these.
Thanks to Jean-Guy Bourgeois for his assistance in the research, and to the staff of the Pension Section of Statistics Canada, the magazine Benefits Canada, and the federal Department of Finance for their regular consultative contributions.
Finally, thanks to officials and staff of Canadian and non-resident corporations, financial institutions and pension funds that gave the CLMPC very generous access to their operations and records for the purpose of case study and who, in many instances, also provided considerable input and support.