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I am looking forward to the RBS Shareholder Event on Monday 31 July in London. RBS had dropped regular shareholder briefings, but, following our shareholder committee campaign, have now…
Read moreOne of ShareSoc’s objects is “to ensure equal treatment for all shareholders”. We are therefore rather disappointed when, as happens all too frequently, companies issue announcements like the…
Read moreAfter the takeover bid was announced yesterday for Monitise (MONI) at 2.9p per share (valuing the business at £70m when it was once worth £1 billion, I thought…
Read moreIn an announcement late Friday afternoon, after market close and just before the long weekend, AIM listed Fusionex announced that it will seek to delist from the AIM…
Read moreIt seems that the major players in the RBS Action Group have accepted the latest RBS offer. See http://files.constantcontact.com/2fe662f5101/de78446f-b327-4d5e-9eee-5fcd584c7e8c.pdf This has, in effect, enabled RBS to bully the…
Read moreby Cliff Weight Last week I went to 3 AGMs. Aviva on Wednesday, 10 May in London and then Lloyds in the morning of the 11th and RBS…
Read moreIn preparation to BP’s AGM tomorrow (17th May 2017), ShareSoc’s Remuneration spokesman has prepared this post on the company’s remuneration policy and many other issues. Overall, the changes…
Read moreThe Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) AGM is tomorrow and it will be interesting to see what excuses the board of directors give for rejecting the requisition of…
Read moreShareholders in Pearson (PSON) yesterday rejected the Remuneration Report on a vote at the company’s AGM. That was by 61% opposed to 32% supporting with 6% abstaining. But…
Read moreYesterday (4/5/2017) I attended the Rolls-Royce (RR.) Annual General Meeting in Derby. In former years they used to hold the meetings in London but it’s been Nottingham and…
Read moreSupermarket and other goods retailer Sainsbury issued their preliminary results this morning. Growth in everything except profits and dividends is what one might say from a quick read…
Read moreNational Grid (NG.) are returning some of the cash received from the sale of their stake in a gas distribution business to shareholders via a large special dividend.…
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