No preference among Strategic investors
Two weeks after Strategic Finance fell into receivership its receivers, PricewaterhouseCoopers, are applying to delist the company's shares after confirming no amount will be available to pay preference shareholders.The company - an associate of the failed Australian financier Allco - had NZ$50 million of perpetual preference shares issued in June 2007, with a recent book value of NZ$47.7 million. In February 2009, Strategic's board cancelled all future dividends on preference shares and said it didn't expect to issue a dividend resumption notice until the moratorium expired.Strategic had NZ$40 million of ordinary shares with a book value of NZ$54.1 million.The receivers said the company has 10,000 debenture holders who are owed around $368 million, and around 1000 note holders who are owed NZ$22 million, and 66 depositors owed NZ$1.5 million.At December 2009, Strategic had total assets of NZ$232 million, which included NZ$221 million in loans.