Jon,

AFAIK I've not gotten that kind of notice from my broker. I may be wrong. It *sounds* like they're saying before they say 'goodbye' they're going to grab you by the ankles turn you upside down, and if anything fall out, it's theirs. I do recall that with this funny-munny European ADR's there was something on the way in to ALU that gave me pause - that they can charge you some kind of 'management exchange' fees or some such language from time to time, up to 4 times a year IIRC. Now, if they shook $38 out of every current holder of ALU - why, that would be a large fortune. It may simply be a case of 'if they can, they will - why not?'