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The extensive Woodford coverage of recent days has highlighted the fact that most potential claimants didn't know and weren't being told of the options for redress available to them.
Half a million Woodford Equity Income Fund investors now need to do three things:
Join ShareSoc's Woodford Campaign.
Register for the March 9th Webinar - covering the background to the Woodford Debacle and how investors can claim redress.
Join Leigh Day's claim #WoodfordPayback.
ShareSoc, the highly influential investor lobby, believes ...
One of my contacts has asked me to look at the Scottish Investment Trust (SCIN). This is a self-managed global investment trust which seems to have the same problems that Alliance Trust had before they had a revolution. Namely persistent under-performance. As a result, it is trading at a discount of 10.4% to the net asset value despite doing considerable share buy-backs in the last few months, presumably to try and control the discount. But as we saw at Alliance Trust, ...
The Sunday Telegraph has run a puff piece of PR for Neil Woodford in which he says, “I am sorry”. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/02/13/exclusive-neil-woodford-launch-comeback-fund-says-sorry-did/
Well, I am sorry too. I don’t accept Neil Woodford’s apology. WoodfordPayBack time is here.
Woodford says that Link were wrong to close his fund, which led to a fire sale of many of his investments. I do at least agree with him on this.
It is a scandal that events occurred so that shares in illiquid assets had to be sold at ...
Over half a million investors in the Woodford Equity Income Fund now have a much better chance of recovering significant losses, as the legal move from Leigh Day, backed by ShareSoc’s Woodford Campaign, becomes the first to reach funding and claimant costs insurance agreements.
ShareSoc, the highly influential investors body, believes it’s in the best interests of all those who lost money in the Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF) to join both the Leigh Day claim and the linked ShareSoc Woodford ...
Below is a short summary of what has been done in January 2021. We have been very active on many issues on behalf of members and all individual investors.
Policy and Campaigns - January update to members
Below is the first of what we plan to be regular updates to members advising them of what we have done in this very important campaign.
Woodford January NEWSLETTER
Some of us have plenty of time to read good books while under lockdown rules. Here’s one I have been reading. It’s a memoir by Ben Bernanke, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve under the title “The Courage to Act”. It covers the major worldwide financial crisis of 2007/8 created by the defaults in sub-prime mortgages. The book includes a very good section on how that came about and how packaging up such mortgages eventually led to a complete lack of ...
ShareSoc's board is dealing with many projects and tasks - more than we can handle.
For our Society to be most effective, we need to make better use of the services of the many kind members who have offered to help. We are therefore looking to recruit a voluntary Head of Volunteering to coordinate this process.
If you are interested in taking on this role, you can find further details and an application form here: https://firstflightnonexec.com/candidates/available-roles/437-role-1121-head-of-volunteering-required-for-sharesoc-an-influential-not-for-profit-society-for-investors
Thanks for your attention.
Mark Northway, Chairman, ShareSoc
By Cliff Weight, Director, ShareSoc
I encourage members to join the Wellesley Investors Action Group. You can do so here https://www.facebook.com/groups/wellesleyp2pcreditorsactiongroup
Neil Taylor has brought this to my attention. ShareSoc is very willing to blog and tweet about this and encourage all those who have lost money in Wellesley to consider joining the Wellesley Investors Action Group. They have 300 members already which is a good start. But there were 11,700 investors affected, so ideally all should join the Action Group. The 336 ...
One thing that all ShareSoc members depend upon is a good quality broker. With that in mind, we have started to create topics in our member forum. Our members can now use these to share any news or opinions and raise issues about individual brokerages. This will be helpful to other members. I have set up a separate “Topic” for each of the usual suspects in this area - https://www.sharesoc.org/forums/forum/choosing-a-stockbroker-or-platform/
Over time, I hope this will become a useful resource for members ...
