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Scotia Managed Companies has announced:

Allbanc Split Corp. II (the “Company”) announced today that it has called 110,799 Preferred Shares for cash redemption on February 27, 2015 (in accordance with the Company’s Articles) representing approximately 12.045% of the outstanding Preferred Shares as a result of the special annual retraction of 221,598 Capital Shares by the holders thereof. The Preferred Shares shall be redeemed on a pro rata basis, so that each holder of Preferred Shares of record on February 25, 2015 will have approximately 12.045% of their Preferred Shares redeemed. The redemption price for the Preferred Shares will be $21.80 per share.

Holders of Preferred Shares that are on record for dividends but have been called for redemption will be entitled to receive dividends thereon which have been declared but remain unpaid up to but not including February 27, 2015.

Payment of the amount due to holders of Preferred Shares will be made by the Company on February 27, 2015. From and after February 27, 2015 the holders of Preferred Shares that have been called for redemption will not be entitled to dividends or to exercise any right in respect of such shares except to receive the amount due on redemption.

Allbanc Split Corp. II is a mutual fund corporation created to hold a portfolio of publicly listed common shares of selected Canadian chartered banks. Capital Shares and Preferred Shares of Allbanc Split Corp. II are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbols ALB and ALB.PR.B respectively.

ALB.PR.B was last mentioned on PrefBlog when it was upgraded to Pfd-2 by DBRS. ALB.PR.B is tracked by HIMIPref™, but relegated to the Scraps index on volume concerns.

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