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Regulations and Law

24 Oct 2015 / Regulations and Law

Blogging and Shorting – Globo and Valeant

An organisation called Quintessential Capital Management (QCM) published a report on the 22nd October on Globo. The next morning the shares were suspended at the request of the…

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ShareSoc

19 Oct 2015

IPOs – Worldpay, Equiniti and McCarthy & Stone

The writer has been wading through the 300 odd pages of the prospectuses for Worldpay (already listed), and Equiniti (due to list on the 30th October). The latter…

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Regulations and Law

17 Oct 2015 / Regulations and Law

Possible Volkswagen Legal Action

The following note has been issued by Better Finance (a European Association of private investor groups of which ShareSoc is a member). It is self explanatory. Dear Members,…

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General News

5 Oct 2015 / General News

Can you make money in the FTSE100?

Can you make money by investing in the FTSE100? This thought came to mind when looking at some of the recent market statistics. It’s quite an important question…

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ShareSoc

1 Oct 2015

Alliance Trust Announcement and ATSAG Response

Alliance Trust Plc have today announced a number of changes “to enhance shareholder value” as they put it. It includes a more focussed investment mandate, a reduction in…

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Education

30 Sep 2015 / Education

Quindell law suit, and Camkids

Many private investors lost money on their investments in Quindell. It was one of the most highly traded stocks on the market. Now a legal action has been…

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Corporate Governance

26 Sep 2015 / Corporate Governance

Glencore Placing Attacked

In a previous blog post I said that Glencore’s plans to cut its debt and strengthen its balance sheet by disposals and a new share issue were “just…

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Corporate Governance

22 Sep 2015 / Corporate Governance

Elliott Raises Stake in Alliance Trust

Elliott Advisors have raised their stake in Alliance Trust to 14%. After a battle before the last Annual General Meeting of Alliance, the company effectively conceded defeat by…

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Nominee Accounts

10 Sep 2015 / Nominee Accounts

Hargreaves Lansdown and opaque accounts

Hargreaves Lansdown (HL.), who claim to be the largest UK investment platform, announced their Preliminary Results yesterday (9/9/2015). I have made some comments recently about the benefits stockbrokers…

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Remuneration

8 Sep 2015 / Remuneration

Amlin and Glencore – Market surprises, but not at Berkeley

This morning a takeover bid for insurer Amlin was announced by Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance. A cash offer of 670p which represents a premium of 34.5% to last nights…

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ShareSoc

31 Aug 2015

Natural resource companies – only themselves to blame? And BHP Billiton results.

I believe John Redwood recently said that it was odd that commodity prices have been falling while Chinese demand has been steadily rising as forecast. As their economy…

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ShareSoc

29 Aug 2015

Dunedin Enterprise and High Discounts

If Alliance Trust shareholders might be concerned about the high discount to NAV their shares trade at, then that’s nothing in comparison with the position of investors in…

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