Topic: How To Invest

Hi, Pat: Would you please give me your opinion of Cymbria Corp.? Thank you for your insight and service.

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Cymbria Corp., $38.40, symbol CYB on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 22.6 million; Market cap: $857.1 million; www.cymbria.com), is a closed-end fund that invests in a portfolio of mostly publicly traded stocks. Separately, the fund directly owns 20.7% of EdgePoint Wealth Management, a private firm that sells mutual funds and asset-management services, in addition to managing Cymbria’s stock portfolio. Cymbria and EdgePoint are run by Trimark Financial co-founder Bob Krembil and former Trimark managers Tye Bousada, Patrick Farmer and Geoff MacDonald. Closed-end funds hold portfolios of securities, and their own shares trade on stock exchanges. However, because a closed-end fund’s capital structure is fixed, its shares can trade at a premium or a discount to the per-share value of their holdings. The fund charges investors a 1.97% MER, but that will fall to 1.25% after November 4, 2015. Cymbria does not pay a dividend. Cymbria’s investment portfolio’s top 10 holdings are EdgePoint Wealth Management, 8.5% (held as part of the portfolio and separate from Cymbria’s…