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Corporate Governance

12 Aug 2014 / Corporate Governance

AIM and other regulatory changes

Effective from the 11th August, there are additional requirements under AIM Rule 26. Rule 26 covers what information is required to be published on a company’s web site…

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Meetings for Investors

11 Aug 2014 / Meetings for Investors

Members’ Conference Call

ShareSoc is keen to engage with its members. We appreciate that it is not always easy for all our members to get to our members’ meetings, which are…

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Blog

6 Aug 2014 / Blog

Active managers and Monks Investment Trust

The FT’s fund management supplement recently reported that “90% of UK active funds beat the market”. This headline might surprise you because historically it is known that active…

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Blog

4 Aug 2014 / Blog

Controlling bankers – public consultation in motion

Controlling bankers is a key theme of a public consultation issued jointly by the Bank of England Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The…

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Nominee Accounts

3 Aug 2014 / Nominee Accounts

Delays in SIPP and ISA transfers

I commented on the delays in transferring a SIPP from Hargreaves Lansdown to another provider in the May ShareSoc Newsletter, and we published some letters from other members…

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Company News

24 Jul 2014 / Company News

High pound also impacts Renishaw and GlaxoSmithKline

Following on from my blog post a couple of days ago about the high pound impacting the profits of technology companies, yesterday saw final results from Renishaw (RSW)…

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Company News

22 Jul 2014 / Company News

High pound impacts Croda, Abcam and others

Today Croda issued their interim results for the six months to the end of June. Croda is a speciality chemicals company and less than 10% of its revenue…

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Regulations and Law

14 Jul 2014 / Regulations and Law

Shareholder Class Actions

The topic of shareholder class actions is a controversial one. Before ShareSoc participates in any such actions, on behalf of its members, we therefore wish to obtain the…

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Regulations and Law

6 Jul 2014 / Regulations and Law

Short selling petition

The recent shorting attacks on companies such as Quindell, Blinkx and Globo have dismayed many new investors in UK stock markets. Indeed this is what one of our…

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Corporate Governance

1 Jul 2014 / Corporate Governance

Fiduciary Duty and Intermediated Securities Report – A Bombshell at the End

The Law Commission was asked to undertake a review of how the law of fiduciary duties applies to investment intermediaries and to evaluate whether the law works in…

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Regulations and Law

16 Jun 2014 / Regulations and Law

Magna Carta and Bank Nationalisations

There was an interesting letter in the Financial Times on Saturday (14/6/2014) from Prof. Tim Congdon.  As a former Northern  Rock shareholder he pointed out that the latest…

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ShareSoc

5 May 2014

Delays in SIPP and ISA transfers

Last week I complained to Hargreaves Lansdown about the delay in transferring a SIPP to another broker. The receiving broker has been chasing it but to no effect.…

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