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Nominee Accounts

16 Sep 2025 Company News

ANEXO Directors say “We have done nothing wrong”

Shareholder action group call for regulatory review Further to my previous Anexo blog, I write to highlight the Investors’ Chronicle’s most recent follow-up on Anexo from 11 September. The key element in the article is Anexo’s on-the-record stance, which boils down to two lines: “We…

Shareholder Democracy

21 Mar 2025 Shareholder Democracy

Streamlining Electronic AGM Access

In recent years, some platforms have improved the ease of shareholders attending AGMs in person, with ii and AJ Bell adopting the Broadridge service, which makes it…

Collective Investments

20 Dec 2024 Collective Investments

Activist Intervention in Investment Trusts and Shareholder Democracy

This article reflects the opinions of its author and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. Saba Capital may be able to force changes due to shareholder apathy and disenfranchisement…

Corporate Stewardship

24 Oct 2023 Corporate Stewardship

M&S Shareholder Rights Petition: A Postmortem

This article reflects the opinions of its author and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. With 4,292 signatures, the M&S petition failed to meet the threshold The M&S Shareholder…

Shareholder Democracy

5 Sep 2022 Shareholder Democracy

A shocking failure to communicate?

The views expressed in this article are those of its author and not necessarily those of ShareSoc An investment trust that I invest in, JP Morgan Global Growth…

Placings and IPOs

4 Aug 2022 Placings and IPOs

Austin Review of Capital Raising and Dematerialisation

This article represents the views of its author and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. It’s the mid-summer doldrums in the stock market and with investors having more time…

AIM

11 Jun 2021 AIM

ShareSoc Patron Lord Lee Parliamentary Question about Bacanora take-over

The background is that ShareSoc was approached by the Bacanora Lithium Shareholder Action Group which is being run by Dee Patel who asked for ShareSoc’s assistance. We have…

Brokers

2 Jun 2021 Brokers

Buying, Selling and Voting US shares

by Cliff Weight, Director ShareSoc. The Gamestop upcoming AGM votes have highlighted the differences in the platforms. Some still do not allow you to buy US shares. Notably…

Meetings for Investors

2 May 2021 Meetings for Investors

Daily Mail, 2 May 2021, Aviva Investor Revolt

The Daily Mail quoted ShareSoc Director Cliff Weight in its 2 May Aviva article https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9535371/Aviva-faces-investor-revolt-preference-shares-scandal.html Aviva faces an investor revolt this week after angering shareholders by deciding…

Corporate Governance

14 Mar 2021 Corporate Governance

Mail, 14 March 2021, SUPERMAN and #sharesocuk Support Shareholder Rights.

It is good news that The Mail on Sunday MailOnline is supporting shareholders and shareholders rights. I get quoted…. Cliff Weight, director of investor campaign group ShareSoc, says wealth…

Insolvency and Administration

16 Nov 2020 Insolvency and Administration

Law Commission Review of Intermediated Securities

The Law Commission has published a “scoping paper” on Intermediated Securities (See Reference 1 below). This might sound a pretty dry technical subject but the subtitle of the…

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