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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,