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Quadravest has announced:

Dividend 15 Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has filed a preliminary short form prospectus in each of the provinces of Canada with respect to an offering of Preferred Shares and Class A Shares of the Company. The offering will be co-led by National Bank Financial Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., Scotia Capital Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, and will also include TD Securities Inc., BMO Capital Markets, Canaccord Genuity Corp., Industrial Alliance Securities Inc., Echelon Wealth Partners, GMP Securities L.P., Raymond James Ltd., Desjardins Securities Inc., Mackie Research Capital Corporation, and Manulife Securities Incorporated.

The Preferred Shares will be offered at a price of $10.00 per Preferred Share to yield 5.25% and the Class A Shares will be offered at a price of $10.90 per Class A Share to yield 11.01%.

The closing price on the TSX of each of the Preferred Shares and the Class A Shares on January 15, 2018 was $10.28 and $10.94, respectively.

Since inception of the Company, the aggregate dividends paid on the Preferred Shares have been $7.24 per share and the aggregate dividends paid on the Class A Shares have been $20.00 per share (including five special distributions of $0.25 per share, one special distribution of $0.50 per share and one special stock dividend of $1.75 per share), for a combined total of $27.24 per unit. All distributions to date have been made in tax advantage eligible Canadian dividends or capital gains dividends.

The net proceeds of the offering will be used by the Company to invest in an actively managed, high quality portfolio
consisting of 15 dividend yielding Canadian companies as follows:

Bank of Montreal	Enbridge Inc.	TELUS Corporation
The Bank of Nova Scotia	Manulife Financial Corp.	Thomson-Reuters Corporation
BCE Inc.	National Bank of Canada	The Toronto-Dominion Bank
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	Royal Bank of Canada	TransAlta Corporation
CI Financial Corp.	Sun Life Financial Inc.	TransCanada Corporation

The Company’s investment objectives are:
Preferred Shares:
i. to provide holders of the Preferred Shares with fixed, cumulative preferential monthly cash dividends in the
amount of 5.25% annually; and
ii. on or about the termination date, currently December 1, 2019 (subject to further 5 year extensions thereafter), to pay the holders of the Preferred Shares $10.00 per Preferred Share.

Class A Shares:
i. to provide holders of the Class A Shares with regular monthly cash dividends currently targeted to be $0.10 per share; and
ii. on or about the termination date, currently December 1, 2019 (subject to further 5 year extensions thereafter) to
pay holders of Class A Shares at least the original issue price of those shares.

The sales period of this overnight offering will end at 9:00 a.m. EST on January 17, 2018. The offering is expected to close on or about January 30, 2018 and is subject to certain closing conditions including approval by the TSX.

So new Whole Units are being sold for 20.90, against a NAVPU of 19.44 as of December 29, 2017, a premium of 7.5%, ignoring valuation changes since year-end. What a great business! If I had better contacts in the underwriting community, I’d start a Split Share Fund with the underlying investment being CryptoCurrencies.

Update, 2018-1-17 Wow! They raised over $100-million!

Dividend 15 Split Corp. (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has completed the overnight marketing of up to 4,971,000 Preferred Shares and up to 4,971,000 Class A Shares of the Company. Total proceeds of the offering are expected to be approximately $103.9 million.

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