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This is an interesting one.

GlobalBanc Advantaged 8 Split Corp. announced today (via CCN Matthews) that:

it has filed and has received a receipt dated May 30, 2007 from the securities regulators of all the Canadian provinces and territories for the final prospectus for its offering of Preferred Shares and Class A Shares, for a total maximum offering size of up to $150 million. The Preferred Securities have been provisionally rated Pfd-2 by DBRS Limited. The offering is scheduled to close on or about June 26, 2007.  The Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) has conditionally approved the listing of the shares, subject to fulfillment by the Company of the requirements of the TSX (Class A Shares – GBA; and Preferred Shares – GBA.PR.A).

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The investment objectives with respect to the Preferred Shares are: (i) to provide holders with fixed cumulative preferential quarterly cash distributions that are expected to consist of non-taxable returns of capital and capital gains in the amount of $0.1125 per Preferred Share, representing a yield on the issue price of the Preferred Shares of 4.5% per annum; and (ii) to return $10.00 per Preferred Share at the time of redemption of such Preferred Shares on December 15, 2012. The Preferred Shares have been provisionally rated Pfd-2 by DBRS Limited.

I have not yet decided whether this issue will be included in the HIMIPref™ universe.

Update, 2007-08-12: This issue will not be tracked by HIMIPref™. The TSX reports that there are only 2.7-million shares outstanding, for a total par value of $27-million.

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