{"id":14244,"date":"2011-03-01T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T00:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=14244"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T00:42:44","slug":"ups-and-downs-of-doing-the-splits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=14244","title":{"rendered":"Ups and Downs of Doing the Splits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Heinzl&#8217;s <i>Investor Clinic<\/i> in the Globe is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/investor-education\/investor-clinic\/ups-and-downs-of-doing-the-splits\/article1925839\/\">Ups and Downs of Doing the Splits<\/a> and addresses the question: What are split shares exactly, and are they a good investment?<\/p>\n<p>He starts of really well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because split shares can get a bit tricky, we\u2019ve invited one of Canada\u2019s leading preferred share experts, James Hymas of Hymas Investment Management in Toronto, to share his expertise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dear Sirs: Please extend my Globe &#038; Mail subscription &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Most of it&#8217;s pretty basic. My favourite part was when I was asked &#8216;Who buys Capital Units?&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those reasons, Mr. Hymas says the capital shares are only appropriate for \u201csuckers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re for people who like to pay high fees, and they\u2019re for people who like to take a lot of risk, and they\u2019re for people who can\u2019t read a prospectus properly,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Heinzl&#8217;s Investor Clinic in the Globe is titled Ups and Downs of Doing the Splits and addresses the question: What are split shares exactly, and are they a good investment? He starts of really &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-clippings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}