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

To: Tommaso who wrote (7012)	5/13/2004 1:50:32 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 11633

Minimum Distributions- Don't think there is law on this - This is why I like some of the US style trusts, like SJT. Look at their management overhead - go to about page 8 -14 of anaual report at - sjbrt.com income 176 mill capex 21 mill taxes 18 mill operating exp 16 mill gen. & admin 1.7 mill Availible for dist - 90 mill SJT has a long reserve life. Other trusts like this are CRT,HGT, BPT (quarterly, Alaskan oil). Having one or two very efficent trusts and a diversification (like energy split) provides a degree of protection from management losing a bunch trying to make more...