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ShareSoc Growth Company Seminar Announcement

Post Date: September 3, 2014

The line-up for our next seminar at which public companies will be presenting on the 17th September is now complete and is given below. This event is in the City of London (at a different venue to normal), with registration starting at 4.00 pm. Four companies will be presenting this month and answering your questions, which are: - Synairgen (SNG): A respiratory drug development company. - Chapel Down Winery (CDGP): England's leading wine producer. - Nature Group (NGR): Marine pollution and offshore waste processing. - ServicePower (SVR): Field service software solutions. Refreshments and a buffet ...

Guaranteed Rights for All Shareholders – Campaign Launch Meeting

Post Date: September 2, 2014

On the 14th October 2014 ShareSoc is launching a campaign to give full rights to ALL shareholders. At present most private investors purchase shares in nominee accounts. With a very few exceptions this means that they have no automatic rights to vote, to attend General Meetings of companies or even receive information on the affairs of the company. Investors in public companies have been disenfranchised and their rights undermined. The meeting on the 14th October 2014 will explain how and why this situation ...

Berkeley Group and British Country Inns

Post Date: September 1, 2014

I attended the Annual General Meeting of housebuilders Berkeley Group today. Lots of questions from shareholders this year (apparently there were none last year), and a request for there to be a presentation in future. That I supported as it is also ShareSoc's policy. A full report is also available to full members. Some of the comments from Chairman Tony Pidgeley were most interesting. It included his solution to how to solve the housing crisis in London and the South East, but ...

New boards elected at Oxford Technology VCTs

Post Date: August 27, 2014

Today all four of the Oxford Technology VCTs held their Annual General Meetings. The meetings were well attended as Oxford Technology VCT (OXT) and Oxford Technology 3 VCT (OTT) previously had their VCT status withdrawn by HMRC, although this has now been temporarily "set aside" while an appeal is processed. ShareSoc formed a "Shareholder Action Group" with a committee of interested shareholders to make representations on this matter and protect their interests. We also pushed for changes to the corporate governance of these ...

Cyber threats and how to avoid them

Post Date: August 26, 2014

The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (Iosco) has warned about the growing threats of cyber attacks to financial institutions. The Chairman, Greg Medcraft, has warned that there needs to be a much more concerted effort to tackle such threats. For example disruption of a stock exchange for any length of time could have serious consequences. Securities regulators who are members of Iosco are seeing increased attacks with more than half of securities exchanges being the subject of one or more. The closure ...