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SIGnet Launches New Virtual Income Investing Group

Post Date: April 16, 2025
SIGnet, a national network of individual investor groups, is excited to announce the launch of a new virtual group for those interested in income investing. The group will meet on the first Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm.  Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join.   SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making ...
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SIGnet Taunton Group Vacancies

Post Date: April 11, 2025
Join Our Lively Investing Discussion Group in Taunton, Somerset! SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes through free discussion and mutual education. Our dynamic group in Taunton welcomes all levels of experience, from novices to seasoned investors. The group explore a wide range of topics during their monthly meetings, including value and growth investing, charting, ...
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SIGnet Launches New Group in London

Post Date: April 4, 2025
SIGnet, a national network of individual investor groups, is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in London. The group will meet during the day on a Friday and investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join. SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly or every 6 weeks, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes ...
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LeaderLaw Debenture encouraging increased AGM attendance

Post Date: April 3, 2025
Shareholders are encouraged to invite a guest so they can experience an AGM Law Debenture Corporation (LWDB) will hold its AGM on 11th April at the Peel Hunt offices in London. ShareSoc is pleased to see that not only is Law Debenture holding a hybrid AGM, allowing in-person or online attendance, but they are also encouraging shareholders to invite a guest, to allow them to experience what an AGM is like. A great initiative, which is part of Law Debenture's financial education ...
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FCA Consults on Fund Product Information and Cost Disclosure CP24/30 – ShareSoc Responds

Post Date: April 2, 2025
In November 2024, the FCA launched a consultation on a proposed product information and cost disclosure regime for funds – now referred to by the regulator as CCIs (Composite Consumer Investments).  ShareSoc has become increasingly concerned in recent years by the divergent and often perverse implementations of cost disclosure by UK retail platforms under the EU regulations for Packaged Retail and Insurance-Based Investment Products (PRIIPS) and MiFID II. A particular area of concern has been listed closed-end funds (investment companies and investment trusts), ...
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Last chance to join the RGL Woodford Group Litigation against Hargreaves Lansdown

Post Date: March 26, 2025
30th April 2025 Deadline Announced Claims management firm RGL has announced a deadline for individuals to register their potential claims under the no-win-no-fee funding arrangement. Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Jeff Prestridge notes that the RGL claim is free to join, with RGL taking a share of the bounty only if the group claim is successful. It's time to make your mind up if you were a Hargreaves customer who invested in Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF). There are currently over 8,300 claimants on ...
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SIGnet Investors Network Launches New Online National Group

Post Date: March 25, 2025
SIGnet is excited to announce the launch of a new online group which Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join. SIGnet is a national network of individual investor groups in the UK. Groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly or every 6 weeks, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes through free discussion and mutual education. This new group will ...
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SIGnet Investors Network Launches New Group in Windsor

Post Date: March 19, 2025
SIGnet is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in Windsor. Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join.   SIGnet is a national network of individual investor groups in the UK. Groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly or every 6 weeks, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes through free discussion and mutual education.  The aim ...
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ShareSoc’s first Chair’s lunch

Post Date: March 6, 2025
On Monday 3rd March we held our first Chair’s lunch with a number of key people who support ShareSoc’s ambitions in raising the profile of the individual investor.  The lunch was sponsored by our Patron Lord Lee and was held in the House of Commons. Our Chair, Heather Benjamin, was joined by Gervais Williams (Premier Miton), Claer Barrett (Financial Times), Fraser Thorne (Edison), Alex Stella (Investor Hub), Richard Stone (AIC), James Ashton (QCA) and ShareSoc directors Mike Dennis and Mark Northway.   ...
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FRC Consults on UK Stewardship Code – ShareSoc Responds

Post Date: February 19, 2025
ShareSoc response to FRC consultation on Stewardship Code (Feb 2025) In November 2024, the FRC launched a consultation on proposed revisions to the UK Stewardship Code, which sets out the core principles of effective stewardship and transparency for asset owners and asset managers.  Our full response is here.
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LeaderPress Release – ShareSoc & Edison join forces

Post Date: February 12, 2025
Edison and ShareSoc join forces to improve access to investment information Investor Relations expert Edison has joined forces with ShareSoc, the UK’s premier membership organisation for individual investors to improve access to listed company information via innovative delivery channels. ShareSoc has been a fervent campaigner for improved individual investor access to information and research on listed companies, to facilitate more informed investment decisions, to exercise shareholders’ rights and to promote stewardship at the individual shareholder level. Edison is a leading provider of Research and ...
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FCA Consultation – Modernising Redress

Post Date: February 5, 2025
An FCA consultation on how to improve the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and other consumer redress mechanisms  In November 2024, the FCA issued this consultation, requesting suggestions for improvements to handling complaints/disputes regarding financial services, especially so-called “mass redress events”.   Many of ShareSoc’s campaigns involve situations where numerous individual investors have suffered losses in circumstances that we believe should not have arisen. So, we have considerable experience of representing and trying to obtain redress in such circumstances.  We are lucky to have recently recruited ...
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