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Article: Letter to the Family Finance Surgery: Loan notes
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- December 22, 1996
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WHILE I have shareholdings in East Midlands Electricity, I
resent any moves to shrink my portfolio of privatisation issues.
The relevant documents received make reference to a "loan note
alternative".
I am unable to establish the true meaning or implication of a
loan note alternative, although it does seem that my investment
will continue for a minimum period of 10 years with a dividend
payout annually. Can you please clarify?
N McPhail,
Worksop, Notts
East Midlands is being taken over by Dominion Power of the US. In
a company takeover, a loan note alternative gives the company
making the takeover bid the opportunity to defer paying cash for
the shares in the ...