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The ShareSoc blog provides news and informal commentary from directors, members and other contributors. Entries reflect the personal views of the authors, which do not necessarily reflect ShareSoc’s formal position. Contributors may hold shares in the companies mentioned. Nothing in this blog should be viewed as financial advice. You may submit comments on blog posts, but ShareSoc reserves the right to remove or edit inappropriate or defamatory submissions.

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Insolvency changes announced by Alok Sharma

Post Date: March 29, 2020

The UK government has announced new insolvency measures to prevent businesses unable to meet debts due to the impact of coronavirus from being forced to file for bankruptcy. Alok...

Thomas Cook – The end of the road

Post Date: March 28, 2020

We had quite a lot of enquiries about Thomas Cook and what actions shareholders might take. We have until now adopted a watching brief. We recently had a teleconference...

FRC, FCA and PRA Joint Statement 26 March 2020

Post Date: March 27, 2020

I notice the market has just dipped below 5,600 so clearly most people are not very worried by this FRC, FCA and PRA announcement. Nevertheless I would point out...

Major Website Upgrade to be Launched Shortly

Post Date: March 26, 2020

I am delighted to announce that after many months of work, we are nearly ready to launch a major upgrade of our website. This upgrade will integrate the features of our members' network into our main website. Watch this space for details! To facilitate this launch, we will need to freeze certain aspects of the current website, for a brief period. This will begin at 9am on Monday 30th March. From then onwards, no new blog or news posts will appear and any ...

Discussion Paper – what do we do now? Covid-19 implications

Post Date: March 23, 2020

By Cliff Weight, ShareSoc Director This is a complex area. It would be good to hear your views and ideas. Please add them via the comments box below this...

Recent Annual Reports and Trust Discounts

Post Date: March 23, 2020

After the news over the weekend, it’s clearly going to be another very bad day on stock markets. One rare riser initially was Ten Entertainment Group (TEG) despite the...

AIM Introduces Covid-19 Emergency Measures

Post Date: March 22, 2020

On Friday 20th March, AIM Regulation announced the measures which you can find here: https://www.londonstockexchange.com/companies-and-advisors/aim/advisers/inside-aim-newsletter/inside-aim-coronavirus.pdf These are some quite significant relaxations of the AIM rules, to take account of...

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