There is a reason some stocks are never to be touched. Stocks that you do not understand what their business is. Stocks that have business subjecting them to risks of losing all their capital.
Global Investments Limited (GIL) is one of them. It exists in 2007 at IPO time as Babcock and Brown Global Management Pte Ltd. Back then if you are chasing for yields, this one yields high together with then favorite Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) (coincidentally both Australian)
The problem of it versus MIIF is that while MIIF then are overpriced assets, at least you know the problem. Babcock and Brown Structured Finance invested in assets ranging from aircraft leasing, various kinds of loans and music copyrights. Its parent which owned the majority stake fell to bankruptcy during the financial crisis and its book value got smashed through the floor as they end up non performing.
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