16 Investing at its Best and
Perhaps the most effectual means of explaining how
an existing list should be reconstructed will be to detail
the method of procedure adopted in all such cases by the
Investment Registry, Limited.
For many years past that institution has been con
sulted by thousands of investors in the reconstruction
of their investment lists. In this way the Investment
Registry has advised its clients concerning the proper
employment of huge sums, and now superintends over
^30,000,000 worth of stocks belonging to its clientele,
who, under its guidance, have obtained remarkably
steady and satisfactory results from the investment of
their capital. Actual practice has therefore proved the
efficacy of its method of dealing with investment lists.
(See Report of Advisory Committee of Shareholders of the
Investment Registry, Limited, dated 29th June, 1911, with
Report of Lord Furness, Sir William Crump and Messrs,
Whinney, Smith and Whinney attached.)
The Registry’s procedure is as follows :—
The investor is asked, in the first place, to submit a
rough list of his investments, giving, wherever possible,
the date when each stock was purchased, together with
the name of each stock, the amount held, and the price
paid for it.
So soon as the Registry receives such a list, the
department concerned classifies the stocks therein
described according to their respective geographical
positions, assigning each to its proper area, as shown
in the Chart of the World facing page 10 of this
pamphlet. The original cost and present value of each