Resting in peace (of mind)

A few days ago, a friend created a Value Research Premium membership account to help a family with an inheritance dispute. By the way, soon (in a matter of days), Value Research Premium will become Value Research Fund Advisor, but more on that later. Let's get back to the inheritance dispute. In 2006, an older man in that family passed away without leaving a will. Besides other kinds of assets, the dead man had many equity investments. These were scattered in more than 50 stocks and mainly were the kind that anyone buying with little thought would have acquired in the preceding three to four years. From 2006 till now, no one has been able to transact in these stocks. Recently, my friend obtained a complete account of the holdings as they existed in 2012 and entered them in Value Research Premium. It turned out that during thi