Friday, June 19, 2009

ASC Request for Investor Statements

I had a great conversation with ASC Investigator Vi Pickering yesterday. She is asking for our help. If you would like to help, she is looking for statements and documents from investors.

Here is how you can help:
Write a chronological statement of your Shire investment story
Provide copies of all documents especially any copies of documents you signed and copies of cheques and/or bank drafts. If you do not have copies of cheques, you can contact your bank and request copies. Please send Vi copies of both sides of any cheques and drafts.

What to include in your statement?
  1. As much as you remember.
  2. How did you first hear about Shire?
  3. Who did you meet with? What was their position? Did you meet them at Shire’s offices or another location?
  4. What was it that led you to making the decision to invest? The marketing materials, the OM, the representative, friends who also invested, something else?
  5. When did you pay for the investment – before or after you received your OM?
  6. How long did you have to review the OM?
  7. Did you sign any documents about risk or any other documents? Were you given copies of those documents?
  8. Have you received any Interest payments, dividends, or payouts? When? How much? Give copies of docs if you have them.
  9. What kind of updates have you received since investing?
  10. What other correspondence or communication have you had since investing?
  11. Did you ask for your investment to be redeemed? If yes, what happened?
  12. Did you start to question your investment security at any time? If yes, why and what happened?
  13. Anything else you can think of.

Where to send this info:
Vi Pickering – ASC Investigator
email: vi.pickering@asc.ca
phone: 403-297-7745

If you are comfortable sending this info to me also, I will forward it to our lawyer Mr. John Blair. You can also send it to Mr. Blair directly at: jblair@blgcanada.com.

Vi Pickering is also available to answer questions you may have regarding this matter. You can reach her by email or phone as above.