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In this unique organisation, indeed, there are many 
highly instructive features, that everyone interested in 
finance should endeavour to inspect its practical working. 
Few (if any) other financial institutions file all the 
available information regarding investments in all parts 
of the globe, nor has any other financial house devised a 
system whereby the relative value of every investment 
is constantly ascertained and recorded. 
It is for this reason that the Registry is the only insti 
tution capable of giving authoritative financial advice, 
based upon statistical data mathematically compared, 
upon all classes of investments. The Registry’s staff 
enjoy this further advantage, that they have been 
engaged for years past in reorganising thousands of 
investment lists, and therefore their experience in this 
class of work is unrivalled. 
The Investment Registry is the only financial insti 
tution in Great Britain which charges a fee for advising 
investors and superintending their investments. Other 
institutions can afford to advise free of charge, because 
their advice is not the outcome of a specially organised 
machinery which was costly in its construction and 
entails a large expenditure in its maintenance. 
The Registry was obliged in the first instance to 
expend large sums upon its initial organisation, and 
now spends tens of thousands of pounds annually upon 
maintaining its system of advising upon investment 
questions. It therefore charges for its advice; but the 
fees, so charged, do not represent money taken from