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Company News

5 May 2017 / Company News

Rolls-Royce – Audits Investigated and AGM

Yesterday (4/5/2017) I attended the Rolls-Royce (RR.) Annual General Meeting in Derby. In former years they used to hold the meetings in London but it’s been Nottingham and…

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Company News

27 Apr 2017 / Company News

Hornby Requisition Opposed

Investor Alexander Anton previously requisitioned a General Meeting of Hornby (HRN) to have Chairman Roger Canham removed from the board and get himself appointed as a director. Mr…

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General News

18 Apr 2017 / General News

A General Election – What Should Be In the Manifestos?

There is to be a General Election on the 8th June in case you have not heard. That has the unfortunate consequence on freezing Government business, with the…

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Regulations and Law

18 Apr 2017 / Regulations and Law

Voting Your Shares – ISAs

One of our Members has responded to our previous note on voting your shares held in nominee accounts and in particular ISAs by saying that when he requested…

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Company News

11 Apr 2017 / Company News

RBS AGM Voting Recommendations

ShareSoc has today issued the following press release giving voting recommendations for the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS): ShareSoc recommends voting against the…

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Nominee Accounts

6 Apr 2017 / Nominee Accounts

Voting Your Shares – It’s Important!

The main Annual General Meeting season is now upon us and those investors who hold their shares on the register will have been receiving Annual Reports on paper…

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Corporate Governance

5 Apr 2017 / Corporate Governance

Hard Hitting BEIS Report on Corporate Governance and Pay

The BEIS Commons Select Committee have today published a strongly worded report on Corporate Governance after its recent hearings on the subject. Here are some of the key…

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Corporate Governance

2 Apr 2017 / Corporate Governance

FT Article on RBS and Shareholder Committees

The Financial Times have published an article under the headline “Investors fight RBS snub to shareholder committee move”. It covers the battle by ShareSoc to get the Royal…

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Corporate Governance

24 Mar 2017 / Corporate Governance

Crest Nicholson Lose Pay Vote

Builder Crest Nicholson (CRST) lost the Remuneration Report vote at their AGM yesterday with 58% opposed (107 million votes against plus another 5 million withheld on a 74%…

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Blog

28 Feb 2017 / Blog

Alliance Trust Vote – A Victory for Private Investors and ShareSoc

Today Alliance Trust shareholders voted to support the Board’s proposals to change the investment management arrangements and to buy out Elliot. This is surely a major win for…

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Corporate Governance

20 Feb 2017 / Corporate Governance

Press Release – Response to Green Paper on Corporate Governance

ShareSoc has today issued the following press release: How to fix the ills of the UK Corporate Governance scene? ShareSoc and UKSA have given their solutions in a…

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Company News

17 Feb 2017 / Company News

Alliance Trust Press Release

ShareSoc has issued the following press release: Alliance Trust have convened a General Meeting on the 28th February. It includes 4 resolutions covering the change in investment approach…

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