Spinoff Spotlight

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TRISURA GROUP LTD. $27 (Toronto symbol TSU; Finance Sector; Shares outstanding: 6.6 million; Market cap: $178.2 million; Takeover Target Rating: Medium; No dividends paid; www.trisura.com) offers insurance in three areas: Risk Solutions provides warranties for manufactured products; Surety Insurance guarantees that specific tasks are completed; and Corporate Insurance and Reinsurance offers policies to professionals to cover malpractice and defamation. Brookfield Asset Management (Toronto symbol BAM.A) spun off Trisura in June 2017. Investors received one Trisura share for every 170 Class A or Class B shares they held. In the quarter ended June 30, 2018, Trisura’s gross premiums rose 35.4%, to $58.7 million from $43.3 million a year earlier. Earnings per share in the latest quarter were $0.14. The year-earlier figure was unavailable due to the spinoff. Trisura aims to grow through a mix of increased business for its existing operations as well as the acquisition of smaller specialty insurers and brokerages The stock has traded between $25 and $28 for most of the past year, mainly because…