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Michael Smedley Urbana Corp. (A Shares) URB.A-T PAST TOP PICK Nov 25, 2008

(A Top Pick Dec 12/07. Down 75%.) Fabulous ties to stock markets globally but it's a closed end fund. He has sold part of his position. You want to see Bombay go public and takeouts in the sector. This is not the time.
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These are exchanges, which are great cash flow. The only people in the world that built up this quoted and unquoted stock markets. They even have Bombay. Did a very clever tax-free flow through to a shell that already had some shares. Has a good chance of sidestepping the mess out there.
BUY
(Disclosure-Owned by Caldwell) There will be more consolidation of stock exchanges globally and more of them will become public companies.
DON'T BUY
Now is probably not a great time to invest in stock markets. He believes we are in the midst of a bear market in equities. In the latter stages of a bear market, there are significant declines in volumes and severe pricing pressures to do with trading commissions.
HOLD
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BUY
Disclosure: His company has a controlling interest. Trading at a discount to its net asset value in a sector that has been continually wildly oversold. If you want a participation in world markets, people will be happy in a year’s time.
PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Dec 12/07. Down 73%.) A fund that contains the global markets. Sold his holdings.
COMMENT

It has been a closed end fund on the TSX, but has just decided to switch it to an investment company in order to keep current with current security regulations. Trading at an enormous discount to its NAV. What they have done to close that gap is to buy back 30 million shares to shrink the capital base back to about 50 million shares outstanding.

BUY

They have lots of investments in financial firms such as exchanges. It trades at a big discount. The real upside is if their Indian stock exchange were to go public. They buy back every share they can.

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PAST TOP PICK
(A Top Pick Aug 27/24, Up 15.2%)Stockchase Research Editor: Michael O'Reilly

Our PAST TOP PICK with URB is progressing well.  To remain disciplined, we recommend trailing up the stop (from $4.50) to $5.25 at this time.