{"id":15229,"date":"2011-06-01T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=15229"},"modified":"2011-06-01T21:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T01:33:32","slug":"asc-pr-a-squeaks-out-default-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=15229","title":{"rendered":"ASC.PR.A Squeaks Out Default Avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manulife Investments \/ Manulife Financial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/releases\/archive\/June2011\/01\/c9813.html\">has issued a press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AIC Global Financial Split Corp. (TSX: ASC\/ASC.PR.A) (the &#8220;Corporation&#8221;) today announced that the Corporation completed the redemption of all of its outstanding Preferred Shares and Class A Shares and terminated on May 31, 2011 (the &#8220;Termination Date&#8221;), as contemplated by the constating documents of the Corporation.  In connection therewith, the Corporation redeemed each Class A Share for $.0643 per share. Preferred Shares were redeemed for $10.00 per share plus any accrued dividends.  The redemption proceeds will be paid by the Corporation on or about June 6, 2011 through CDS Clearing and Depository Services Inc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ASC.PR.A was last mentioned on PrefBlog in the post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=15085\">ASC.PR.A Holders to Get Partial Dividend on Redemption<\/a>. Preferred shareholders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=14669\">were victorious in the shareholder vote<\/a>, despite a recommendation by the directors of the firm:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Lorentz\n<li>Sheila Hart\n<li>Jennifer Mercanti\n<li>Warren Law<\/ul>\n<p>that they should vote in favour of the plan. Hey guys &#8211; just a little friendly advice: if I should ever advertise an opening for an entry credit analysis position, don&#8217;t spend a lot of money express-posting your resume, OK?<\/p>\n<p>ASC.PR.A was tracked by HIMIPref&trade; prior to its maturity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manulife Investments \/ Manulife Financial has issued a press release: AIC Global Financial Split Corp. (TSX: ASC\/ASC.PR.A) (the &#8220;Corporation&#8221;) today announced that the Corporation completed the redemption of all of its outstanding Preferred Shares and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","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=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}