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Investment trusts explained

Post Date: September 3, 2026

What they are, what they’re for, and why discounts matter The closed-ended structure explained — its uses, the risks worth knowing, and the feature that most defines it and...

ShareSoc 2025 AGM: resolutions passed

Post Date: November 18, 2025

ShareSoc (UK Individual Shareholders Society), the not-for-profit membership organisation representing the rights of individual shareholders, is pleased to announce that all resolutions proposed to members at the hybrid AGM,...

We’re hiring! Can you help us to recruit a General Manager?

Post Date: December 19, 2021

Having reached our 10 year anniversary in 2021, we are excited to enter a new era of our organisation in 2022 to be even more inclusive of investors from...

Shell: Shareholder resolution on climate change gets 30% support

Post Date: May 22, 2021

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 AGM....

Wheaton Precious Metals – A short introduction to their business

Post Date: February 8, 2021

Those ShareSoc members who invest in the precious metals sector might be interested in this short film of Wheaton’s CEO, Randy Smallwood, which Five Minute Pitch recently produced. It’s...

Whitby Gazette, 7 Dec 2020, Sirius Campaigners to Hold Next Steps Meeting Online Following Anglo American Takeover

Post Date: December 7, 2020

https://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/business/sirius-campaigners-hold-next-steps-meeting-online-following-anglo-american-takeover-3059672

FRC and FCA Investigations: Managing expectations, and Blancco news

Post Date: November 28, 2018

Peter Parry and I now have regular meetings with the FRC and FCA to discuss topics of interest. We met Jen Sisson of the FRC on 23 Sep and...

BHP Billiton Retail Shareholder Event 18 Sept 2018

Post Date: September 21, 2018

BHP Chairman Ken MacKenzie presented to 60+ retail shareholders in a highly successful event organised by BHP, UKSA and ShareSoc. After a 20 minute presentation, Ken answered questions for...

How To Make Money on Losers, and the Monitise Bid

Post Date: June 15, 2017

After the takeover bid was announced yesterday for Monitise (MONI) at 2.9p per share (valuing the business at £70m when it was once worth £1 billion, I thought I...

Rolls-Royce – Audits Investigated and AGM

Post Date: May 5, 2017

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 Derby...

Why Companies Don’t Get Struck Off, and Maven VCT5

Post Date: April 27, 2017

I have had two listed companies in my last 25 years of investing, that delisted and then became worthless. But the directors refused to put them into liquidation or...

Fundsmith Annual Shareholders’ Meeting – An ODD investment strategy

Post Date: March 21, 2017

The Annual Shareholder Meeting for holders of the Fundsmith Equity Fund was held last night (20/3/2017). Here’s a brief summary of manager Terry Smith’s presentation and the question/answer session...

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