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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (4682)	3/6/2006 12:11:27 AM
From: Seeker of Truth	Respond to of 218578

If you don't live in a tax haven and don't have some kind of tax free retirement plan, then trusts are an accounting headache. Some part of the yield is fully taxable, some is capital gain, some may even be a dividend. They are all taxed differently. Here in Ontario where I live, fully taxable means 50% to me, capital gain 25%. I have a big holding in COS-UN because the oil sands make me willing to bother with the accounting. The 5% DRIP gives another advantage. I hear that CNQ has a drip also and that is not a trust. OST-UN.to is a fine way of owning COS-UN if you want to get capital gains rather than income. I wonder if anybody will make big money from alternative energy. It seems there is no monopoly there; there is almost by definition no "peak", our control as monopolists owning a depleting resource is gone there. Real estate, properly chosen, has semi-monopolistic character. That's in some future act of a future play. At the moment it's sands and uranium,no doubt the best things around.