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TRISURA GROUP LTD. $31 remains a buy for aggressive investors. The company (Toronto symbol TSU; Finance Sector; Shares outstanding: 47.4 million; Market cap: $1.5 billion; No dividend paid; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; www.trisura.com) took its current form on June 22, 2017, when Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (old Toronto symbol BAM.A) spun off its specialty insurance business as Trisura. Investors received one Trisura share for every 170 Brookfield shares they held. The stock has declined 35% since its recent peak of $47.90 in December 2022. Even so, it’s still up an impressive 459% since the 2017 spinoff. In the quarter ended June 30, 2023, Trisura’s revenue jumped 43.0%, to $664.4 million from $464.6 million a year earlier. That gain was due to strong gains in both Canada and the U.S. The higher revenue also boosted the company’s earnings per share by 24.4%, to $0.56 from $0.45. For all of 2023, the company will probably earn $2.27 a share, and the stock trades at a reasonable 13.7 times that…