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Nominee Accounts

26 Apr 2014 / Nominee Accounts

Selftrade annoys its customers

Selftrade, the execution-only stockbroker, has annoyed a large number of its customers by sending out a form asking for a lot of personal information about themselves. For example,…

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Meetings for Investors

2 Apr 2014 / Meetings for Investors

ShareSoc Company Seminar Announcement

Our next seminar at which public companies will be presenting is scheduled for the 8th May in the City of London, with registration starting at 4.00 pm. Four…

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Company News

30 Mar 2014 / Company News

SSE, Centrica and Energy Market Probe

The prices of shares in energy supply companies such as SSE and Centrica fell sharply last year after Labour threats to impose a price freeze for retail customers.…

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Taxation

19 Mar 2014 / Taxation

At first glance a good budget for private investors

Is the Chancellor’s budget good for private investors? At first glance it appears to be so, although more analysis of the detail will be needed in due course…

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Company News

2 Mar 2014 / Company News

Stop losses and shorting – Techinvest caught out with Blinkx

Stop losses are a way that many investors use to limit the downside risk on stock market investments. They help to counter the “loss aversion” psychological trait that…

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ShareSoc

26 Feb 2014

ShareSoc Company Seminar Announcement

Our next seminar at which public companies will be presenting is scheduled for the 26th March in the City of London, with registration starting at 4.00pm. Three or four companies will be presenting in…

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ShareSoc

13 Feb 2014

Financial repression to continue

Are you feeling subject to financial repression? You should be because it’s the phrase used to describe how the Government reduces it’s debts by lowering interest rates to…

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Company News

5 Feb 2014 / Company News

Hargreaves Lansdown backs down

On the 17th January ShareSoc issued a press release which pointed out that the new charges announced by Hargreaves Lansdown would mean that some investors might face a…

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Nominee Accounts

30 Jan 2014 / Nominee Accounts

Nominee system defeats shareholder voting

ShareSoc  has recently issued a survey to our Members and the public covering their voting and attendance at General Meetings and the prevalence of the use of nominee…

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Corporate Governance

27 Jan 2014 / Corporate Governance

Eurofinuse adopts manifesto

Eurofinuse, a representative body for European shareholder organisations of which ShareSoc is a Member, has adopted a “Better Finance Manifesto”. They are launching this before the European Parliament…

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Market Statistics

24 Jan 2014 / Market Statistics

AIM is no longer a dog, but the mastiffs are the winners

There was an interesting analysis of the performance of AIM stocks in a recent “AIM Journal”, a publication sponsored by Finncap.  As others have pointed out, AIM finally…

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Corporate Governance

17 Jan 2014 / Corporate Governance

Hargreaves Lansdown doubles charges for some investors

On the 15th January Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) announced new charges on its investment platform, which is one of the most widely used by private investors. The changes are…

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