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Urgent appeal for sponsorship from the Flybe Shareholder Group

Post Date: April 23, 2025

Flybe shareholders have waited long enough – please help us finally uncover the truth This solicitation is published by ShareSoc on behalf of the Flybe Shareholder Group and publication thereof does not represent an endorsement of the proposed action. For further information readers can contact the action group via their CrowdJustice page. In early 2019, upbeat statements by Flybe’s leadership were followed by a dramatic collapse in the value of its shares, wiping out investors and prompting urgent questions which remain unanswered. Hosking ...

VEIL or VNH?

Post Date: March 29, 2025

Vietnam Enterprise Investments opportunity On 13 March I listened to a very interesting webinar on Vietnam “Vietnam Enterprise Investments | Kepler Trust Intelligence Ideas for your ISA”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO694HbHyVI&t=42s . I visited Vietnam in 2019 on holiday and found it fascinating, so put a bit of money into Vietnam Holdings (VNH), which has given me a very good return of 103% so far. I bought some VEIL after the webinar. VEIL is on a discount of 20% which looks too high to me, given ...

Aviva’s Preference Share Offer: A Reasonable Offer, But Could It Be Better?

Post Date: March 29, 2025

Introduction: A Second Bite at the Cherry On March 11, 2025, Aviva PLC announced a tender offer and a proposed cancellation of its 8.375% and 8.75% Cumulative Irredeemable Preference Shares. This follows a similar, and highly controversial, attempt in 2018, which was ultimately withdrawn after significant investor backlash. While this new offer is structured differently, and is undoubtedly an improvement on the 2018 proposal, it still raises important questions for individual investors, particularly those who rely on these shares for income. ShareSoc has ...

Suffering from the Disposition Effect? You Are Not Alone!

Post Date: March 26, 2025

"Run your winners and cut your losses" is one of Wall Street’s most enduring pieces of advice, championed by investment legends like Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett and consistent with academic studies of market momentum. Yet, despite the simplicity of this mantra and its undeniable economic rationality, research indicates that people often do the opposite. This tendency to sell winning investments too soon and retain losing holdings is so well-known that it has its own term – the disposition effect. The disposition ...

Streamlining Electronic AGM Access

Post Date: March 21, 2025

In recent years, some platforms have improved the ease of shareholders attending AGMs in person, with ii and AJ Bell adopting the Broadridge service, which makes it easy to request a Letter of Representation for in-person attendance. However, gaining access to AGMs electronically is often still cumbersome for all concerned. This is particularly the case for AGMs held on the widely used Lumi platform. To gain access a code must be obtained, which is not a concept Broadridge currently supports. Codes are ...