(sorry all for de-railing the thread)...
... well let's consider a real world example of a problem like this:
A buddy of yours works in a Spread betting firm, and part of his renumeration is in the form of Stock. Now, he has written some fancy contract that splits up the dividend from the spot price of the stock - he wants to keep the spot price exposure, but wants to strip out the dividend payments - that is, he wants you to buy them off him (he is going to engineer this as a tax loss, by turning "kosha" shares into unmarketable OTC shares and so write off the loss against tax).
Do you buy them?
