Financial 15 Split Corp. Announces Follow-on Offering
January 09 2014 - 3:23PM
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Financial 15 Split Corp. Announces Follow-on Offering
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan 9, 2014) - Financial 15
Split Corp. (the "Company") is pleased to announce it has filed a
short form prospectus in each of the provinces of Canada with
respect to an additional offering of Preferred Shares and Class A
Shares of the Company. The offering will be co-led by National Bank
Financial Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc. and RBC Capital
Markets.
The Preferred Shares
will be offered at a price of $10.00 per Preferred Share to yield
5.25% and the Class A Shares will be offered at a price of $9.60
per Class A Share to yield 15.71%. The closing price of each of the
Preferred Shares and the Class A Shares on January 8, 2014 on the
TSX was $10.06 and $10.20, respectively.
The proceeds of the
secondary offering, net of expenses and the underwriters' fee, will
be used by the Company to invest in a high quality portfolio
consisting of 15 financial services companies made up of Canadian
and U.S. issuers as follows:
Bank
of Montreal |
|
National Bank of Canada |
|
Bank
of America Corp. |
The
Bank of Nova Scotia |
|
Manulife Financial Corporation |
|
Citigroup Inc. |
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce |
|
Sun
Life Financial Services of Canada Inc. |
|
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. |
Royal
Bank of Canada |
|
Great-West Lifeco Inc. |
|
JP
Morgan Chase & Co. |
The
Toronto-Dominion Bank |
|
CI
Financial Corp. |
|
Wells
Fargo & Co. |
The Company's
investment objectives are:
Preferred
Shares:
- to provide holders of the Preferred Shares with fixed,
cumulative preferential monthly cash dividends in the amount of
$0.04375 per Preferred Share to yield 5.25% per annum on the
original issue price; and
- on or about the termination date, currently December 1, 2015
(the "Termination Date"), to pay the holders of the Preferred
Shares $10.00 per Preferred Share, which was the original issue
price of the Preferred Shares.
Class A Shares:
- to provide holders of the Class A Shares with regular monthly
cash dividends initially targeted to be $0.10 per Class A Share to
yield 8.0% per annum on the original issue price of the Class A
Shares, and currently targeted to be $0.1257 per Class A
Share;
- on or about Termination Date, to pay the holders of Class A
Shares $15.00 per Class A Share, which was the original issue price
of the Class A Shares.
The Company is
currently scheduled to terminate on December 1, 2015. The Company
intends to seek shareholder approval to extend the Termination Date
initially to December 1, 2020, and thereafter for additional terms
of five years each at the discretion of Quadravest Capital
Management Inc., as the manager of the Company. In conjunction with
such extension, if approved, shareholders would be offered a
special retraction right which would allow them to exit their
investment in the Company on the same basis as if the Company were
to terminate on its otherwise scheduled Termination Date. Further
information regarding the term extension will be provided at the
time meetings of shareholders are called to consider and, if deemed
acceptable, approve the extension.
The sales period of
this overnight offering will end at 9:00 a.m. EST on January 10,
2014.
A copy of the
preliminary short form prospectus is available from the syndicate
of underwriters.
Commissions,
trailing commissions, management fees and expenses all may be
associated with mutual fund investments. Investors should read the
prospectus before investing. Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their
values change frequently and past performance may not be
repeated.
Financial 15 Split Corp.Investor Relations416-304-4443 or Toll
free at 1-877-4-Quadra (1-877-478-2372)www.financial15.com
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