{"id":1440,"date":"2007-07-14T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wpblog\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2007-07-14T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T01:04:00","slug":"a-cunning-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"A cunning plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Today, going through my mail there is a letter from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telstra.com.au\/abouttelstra\/investor\/drp.cfm\">Telstra Corporation <\/a>offering me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmoney.com\/news\/on\/index.cfm?story=ON-20070703-000675-1954\">dividend reinvestment scheme<\/a>. These were all the rage a decade ago. Something must have changes because most have been abandoned. However, going against the trend Telstra is offering the scheme. Why? To get rid of all those (17%) future fund shares by stealth. It is quite a clever scheme. Of course if they did not have all these surplus shares, they would not be implementing this scheme. I will not partake as I am rejigging my finances as I buy a new place to live.<a href=\"void(0)\"><span><br \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;just a minute&#8221; by <b>j\u00e6ms<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/6v8.gamboni.org\/Flickr-Easy-Photo-Post.html\">[?]<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\/photos\/jaems\/405412566\/\" title=\"Go to the photo page\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/187\/405412566_24737666c1_m.jpg\" alt=\"just a minute\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, going through my mail there is a letter from Telstra Corporation offering me a dividend reinvestment scheme. These were[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yewenyi.net\/wp\/old\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}