Updating Dundeewealth Inc., Breakwater Resources and Adobe Systems

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DUNDEEWEALTH INC. $18.65 (Toronto symbol DW; SI Rating: Speculative) (1-800-301-6745; www.dundeewealth.com; Shares outstanding: 144.3 million; Market cap: $2.7 billion) is up over 40% since CI Financial Income Fund, symbol CIX.UN on Toronto, launched a hostile $2.36 billion takeover bid for the company. CI Financial will pay 0.75 of a CI unit for each DundeeWealth share. Based on today’s CI Financial unit price of $27.07, the 0.75 per unit offer is worth $20.33 per DundeeWealth share. Dundee Corp., DundeeWealth’s controlling shareholder, has rejected the offer. One condition of CI Financial’s initial purchase offer was that DundeeWealth drop its plan to sell 27.3 million new DundeeWealth shares to Scotiabank at $12.76 a share. The sale would give Scotiabank an 18% interest in DundeeWealth. However, CI Financial dropped this condition in an effort to persuade Dundee Corp. to accept its offer, and Scotiabank has since purchased the shares. Dundee Wealth also sold its Dundee Bank of Canada banking unit to Bank of Nova Scotia for $260…