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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canadian REITS, Trusts & Dividend Stocks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lorne Larson who wrote (1628)	10/15/2001 9:22:18 AM
From: stan_hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11633

Lorne - You must be a lot more bearish than I ever was. Shorting the trusts means covering their 20%+ rate payouts while you remain short. It would have taken quite a bear to have accepted that risk. Not sure that I would tar all analysts with the same brush, but I hear what you're saying. However, IMO one still needs to factor in the ugly truth that these people have a degree of influence over others, perhaps passing over worthy investments in favor of promoting a preferred client's shares. That's one of the reasons I'm a bit leery about the AET, although if the institutions collectively want to hold it up, they can certainly accomplish that.