(1) It is a question of fact as to whether a valuator is independent of the labour sponsored or venture capital fund. In determining the independence of the valuator, a number of factors may be relevant, including whether
(a) the valuator or an affiliated entity has a material financial interest in future business in respect of which an agreement, commitment or understanding exists involving the fund or a person or company listed in paragraph (2)(a); or
(b) the valuator or its affiliated entity is a lender of a material amount of indebtedness to any of the issuers of the fund’s illiquid investments.
(2) The CSA would generally consider a valuator not to be independent of a labour sponsored or venture capital fund where
(a) the valuator or an affiliated entity of the valuator is
(i) the manager of the fund,
(ii) a portfolio adviser of the fund,
(iii) an insider of the fund,
(iv) an associate of the fund,
(v) an affiliated entity of the fund, or
(vi) an affiliated entity of any of the persons or companies named in this paragraph (a);
(b) the compensation of the valuator or an affiliated entity of the valuator depends in whole or in part upon an agreement, arrangement or understanding that gives the valuator, or its affiliated entity, a financial incentive in respect of the conclusions reached in the valuation; or
(c) the valuator or an affiliated entity of the valuator has a material investment in the labour sponsored or venture capital fund or in a portfolio asset of the fund.