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the laws concerning investments in every country, and
the terms upon which investment business is transacted
on every stock exchange of any importance through
out the civilised world; also by obtaining the financial
handbooks issued in every country.
The information thus acquired was next classified in
such a manner that its every detail should be instantly
available when required. The unique and valuable
records, thus begun, are now maintained and constantly
brought up to date by the Registry’s keeping a file of
all the official price lists published by every stock
exchange of any importance, regularly obtaining and
analysing the balance-sheets of thousands of impor
tant undertakings throughout the world, and constantly
supplementing such information by reference to the
financial and daily Press of every country.
By means of this elaborate organisation the Invest
ment Registry can answer any question regarding
investments, whatever its nature, and no matter to what
distant quarter of the globe it refers.
No one can hope to purchase really at its best
unless he knows all the existing markets where any
given class of commodity can be purchased, and the
respective merits of all the commodities offered in each.
That is why the Investment Registry employs its
organisation constantly to watch all the stocks available
for investment in each separate geographical area. The
Registry has elaborated a system of mathematically
precise comparison, whereby the relative safety, yield,