Topic: How To Invest

Dear Mr. McKeough: I’ve been an Inner Circle Member for several years and have benefited both from specific stock recommendations and from the educational value your publications offer. I would like your opinion about a stock: Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund (CHE.UN). As always, I look forward to your guidance. Thanks.

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Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund, $12.64, symbol CHE.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 30.7 million; Market cap: $387.7 million), is one of North America’s largest suppliers of sulphuric acid, sulphur, liquid sulphur dioxide and sodium hydrosulphite. It also supplies sodium chlorate, phosphorous pentasulphide and zinc oxide. Aside from selling chemicals, Chemtrade processes spent acid. Chemtrade first sold units to the public for $10 each, and began trading on Toronto in July 2001. Chemtrade has three divisions: The Sulphur Products and Performance Chemicals division supplies about 59% of the fund’s revenue. Pulp Chemicals accounts for 10% of Chemtrade’s revenue, and the International division supplies the remaining 31%. This division removes and markets sulphur and sulphuric acid outside of North America. Removal services are important for certain companies, such as oil refineries and base-metal processors. That’s because they create sulphur by-products during their processing activities. In order to meet environmental regulations, they must recover these by-products or they could be forced to halt production. Chemtrade then…