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re. ShareSoc Chairman's Blog

harryr — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:12:50 +0100

harryr posted:
We all know the Market Makers need to make a profit on AIM stocks, however these two trades show them for what they are.!! Feedback PLC: Thur 16th May 2013. Sale of 900,000 shares @ 0.15p 9.36AM Buy of 1M shares @0.38p 10.42AM

re. ShareSoc Chairman's Blog

ShareSoc — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:15:13 +0100

ShareSoc posted:
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 chaos”. Without debating the question of whether humans via the generation of CO2 are creating climate change (which Mr Wolf argues is “basic science” in his...

re. ShareSoc Chairman's Blog

ShareSoc — Sat, 18 May 2013 11:09:31 +0100

ShareSoc posted:
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 trading and any other useful information about the opportunities and challenges the company faces. Of course the company has typically already prepared and given such a presentation...

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ShareSoc — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:59:01 +0100

ShareSoc posted:
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 anyone could participate in. Why do not all companies do it this way? If a small company such as Blinkx can do it why not others? The...

re. ShareSoc Chairman's Blog

emptyend — Fri, 10 May 2013 07:36:45 +0100

emptyend posted:
This kind of behaviour shows that those engaging in such have no etiquette whatsoever.....I thought the Eco inspired disruption of the BP AGM, pertaining to the Canada sands and the same reworded questions being posed on numerous occasions was tiresome enough, but this took the biscuit. If it's obvious that attendees are clearly not interested in the company, nor invested to any significant degree (holding 1 share is frankly ridiculous) and merely attending to disrupt then they should be swiftly removed from the building - preferably with a forcible...

re. ShareSoc Chairman's Blog

Fangorn — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:58:04 +0100

Fangorn posted:
I'm surprised that there were so many "hecklers" there on a Wednesday morning - presumably none of these individuals worked (that, or their human rights/amnesty international or employers of similar ilk gave them time off to protest), Failing that they're most likely students who should be spending their time more profitably. A list of such people, with their personal details, should be taken and cross referenced with those currently in education or in receipt of welfare benefits of any kind related to looking for work imo - if you're on...

re. ShareSoc Chairman's Blog

emptyend — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:42:59 +0100

emptyend posted:
On the matter of whether companies should split the role of CEO and Chairman (as the Corporate Governance code recommends), I should draw ShareSoc's attention to an article in The Wall Street Journal on the topic, which cites a new piece of academic research that tries to ascertain the impact of split roles on investor returns: Efforts to split the posts of chairman and chief executive at U.S. companies are finding success. Now all that is needed is evidence it actually helps investors. Studies show a mixed impact on shareholder returns when...

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ShareSoc — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:47:38 +0100

ShareSoc posted:
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 – and mainly of the view that weapons kill people and the company should be a lot more careful about what they sell and who they sell...

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marben100 — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:40:32 +0100

marben100 posted:
Must say that I disagree with the above suggestion. Whilst I agree that, in general, increases in the size of funds tend to benefit their managers more than fund investors, there are two factors that mitigate that in this case: The increase is relatively small - just 5%, so no major gains for the fund manager, nor would that scale of increase force cash deployment at an inopportune time. More importantly, issuing shares in an investment trust at a premium to NAV adds to NAV/share, which is beneficial to shareholders in the long...

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ShareSoc — Sun, 05 May 2013 11:03:54 +0100

ShareSoc posted:
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 continuing demand for the Company’s shares”. At their last AGM in January they obtained authority to issue more shares and have subsequently issued about one million new shares...