Investment Strategies

Education

16 Sep 2021 / Education

SPECIAL OFFER TO FULL MEMBERS – FREE COPY OF THE 3RD EDITION OF “THE DIY INVESTOR” BY ANDY BELL

Andy Bell – founder of AJBell Youinvest – has generously offered ShareSoc a large number of copies of the latest edition of his classic book “The DIY Investor”…

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General News

14 Aug 2021 / General News

IPCC Report – The Implications for Investors

This post represents the opinion of its author and not that of ShareSoc The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have published a report that predicts in stark…

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News

22 May 2021 / News

Shell: Shareholder resolution on climate change gets 30% support

Blog from Cliff Weight, Director, ShareSoc. These are my personal views and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. Support doubles to 30%, for the FollowThis! climate resolution at Shell…

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ShareSoc

23 Jan 2021

A Review of my Portfolio in 2020

By Cliff Weight, ShareSoc Director Please note I am not qualified to give investment advice, and nothing in this blog constitutes advice. Overview Chris Spencer Phillips reported in…

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Investment tools

17 Jan 2021 / Investment tools

A Review of my 2020 Share Portfolio – Chris Spencer-Phillips

Review of 2020 I wrote a review of my share portfolio (only an ISA) at the end of 2019 which ended the year 25% up which I was…

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Education

4 Jan 2021 / Education

Portfolio Review 2020 – Mark Bentley

Background I have not published a portfolio review for quite a while, as it’s so time consuming to do. However, 2020 was an extraordinary year, so felt I…

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General News

10 Oct 2020 / General News

New podcast on trading and investing

Like all the directors of ShareSoc, I am an active investor, and over the past couple of years have learned a lot being part of a chatroom with…

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Company News

24 Aug 2020 / Company News

Lessons From a Failed Investment

This is a premium article, available to ShareSoc full members and SIGnet members. Recent troubles at the AA (AA.) and Petropavlovsk (POG) brought to mind another problematic investment…

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ShareSoc

5 Jul 2020

It Pays to Take Note of Shorters

An article by ShareSoc member Michael Taylor In light of the recent Burford Capital judgement that my friend Paul de Gruchy has written about in detail here, this…

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Meetings for Investors

10 Jun 2020 / Meetings for Investors

Babcock Price Fall, Segro Placing, TR Property

I said in a previous blog post “that I tend to avoid FTSE-100 companies as their share prices are driven by professional analysts’ comments, by geo-political concerns, by…

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Company News

5 Jun 2020 / Company News

Market Trends, Big Miners and Will the Music Stop?

Stock markets continue to rise. They seem to be ignoring the bad company results that are going to come out in the next few months. Although there are…

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Education

11 May 2020 / Education

Investing for Income – More Than Just Seeking a High Yield

Vanishing Dividends Every week brings news of a major company cutting or suspending its dividend: this week, it was BT. For investors who rely upon dividends for income,…

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