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Interests: Stocks
Location: London
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ShareSoc is dedicated to the support of individual investors. Our aim is to make and keep you better informed so as to improve your investment skills, and protect the value of your investment. We won’t shirk from tackling companies, the Government or other institutions if we think you are not being treated fairly.
The ShareSoc Informer is the monthly newsletter of the UK Individual Shareholder Society. There is a real need to encourage direct investment in the UK stock market, but individual investors will be discouraged if their rights and needs are ignored. One reason why ShareSoc was formed was to ensure that there is more active representation of your interests to government, companies and other institutions. Sign up for the newsletter at the ShareSoc website. http://www.sharesoc.org
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ShareSoc urges shareholders to vote against Lighthouse Group delisting ShareSoc has criticised the planned delisting of Lighthouse Group shares and urges all shareholders to vote against the resolution at the forthcoming EGM. Delisting is severely detrimental to smaller shareholders and the Company has offered no exit. As is common with AIM delistings, there was a sharp fall of 50% in the share price following the…
ShareSoc has been actively involved in consulations with government regarding pre-packaged administrations. It has been a frustrating process, dominated by insolvency practictioners with a vested interest. We have today sent the following letter to Norman Lamb, Minister for Employment Relations, Consumer and Postal Affairs, who chaired the last meeting. The letter sets out why we feel change is needed: Dear Mr Lamb, Regarding the recent…
This being "AGM season", ShareSoc Directors and members have been busy attending lots of AGMs. Reports on the following companies' AGMs have been posted recently:- Amlin (AML)- Aminex (AEX)- Churchill China (CHH)- Faroe Petroleum (FPM)- Foresight VCT (FTV)- Globo (GBO)- HG Capital Trust (HGT)- Kings Arms Yard VCT (KAY)- Kentz (KENZ)- Petrofac (PFC)- Premier Oil (PMO)- PV Crystalox Solar (PVCS)- Toumaz (TMZ)Those are just within…
The inaugural newsletter of the UK Individual Shareholder Society (ShareSoc) founded and chaired by Roger Lawson. ShareSoc was founded to defend the rights of UK individual Investors and the newsletter covers many aspects of the UK share market on that theme. The newsletter begins by challenging the Financial Reporting Council's proposal to scrap the hard copy printing of company annual reports and includes forthright articles…
Posted by ShareSoc at 09:15, May 18 2013. Tornados in Texas, and crying Wolf in the FT Attending the AGM of Amlin (LON:AML) , a major “catastrophe” insurer, reminded me to consider the issues of climate change again. Coincidentally there were tornados in Texas last week and also an article in the Financial Times by their correspondent Martin Wolf entitled “Why the world faces climate…
Posted by ShareSoc at 14:05, May 15 2013. Presentations at AGMs – Michelmersh Brick is setting a good example Revitalising the Annual General Meetings (AGMs) of public companies is one of the objectives of ShareSoc. One way to do that is for a company to include a presentation to investors at their AGMs covering the financial results of the last year, the current state of…
Posted by ShareSoc at 11:08, May 13 2013. Blinkx results – a good example of how to present them This morning Blinkx (LON:BLNX) announced their preliminary results. Blinkx is a technology business based on an internet video search engine and advertising platform. The results were better than expected, but the key point worth noting is the live web cast of the analysts’ conference call that…
Posted by ShareSoc at 14:44, May 8 2013. BAE AGM – Olver’s swansong disrupted by political activists This morning BAE Systems held it’s Annual General Meeting in a converted hangar in Farnborough - the location of the company’s headquarters of course. There were probably about 300 shareholders present, but as many as a third of them seemed to be protestors unhappy with the company’s activities…
Posted by ShareSoc at 09:20, May 5 2013. Should you vote to increase the size of an investment trust? Should you vote to increase the size of an investment trust? This question came to my attention when a notice of a General Meeting of Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust arrived on my desk. They are asking for approval to issue more shares “to meet the…
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