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INSURANCE SHARES AS INVESTMENTS.

Published at a price of 5s. by the Trust of Insurance Shares, Limited, the Insurance Shares Year Book provides a valuable - (Continued on nave 592.1 :

Financial Notes

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record of the progress of insurance companies, with an inter- esting account of the operations of the Trust itself. Ina special article; reprinted from The Spectator, and dealing with insur- ance shares as an investment, the Rt. Hon. C. A. McCurdy, K.C., the chairman of the Trust, gives some striking examples of the high return which would have been given by an invest- ment in some leading insurance shares during the past decade, taking capital appreciation into account. The extreme: caution on which British insurance is based gives insurance shares a very solid hacking as investments.