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ShareSoc Informer – Issue 124

…policy wonks!, Woodford Campaign update, Home REIT news, Hartley Pensions: setting a precedent for SIPPs, RIT Capital Partners quizzed on underperformance at AGM, Changing of the Guard, SIGnet launches Edinburgh…

ShareSoc Informer – Issue 127

…falling rates, Portfolio Reviews 2023, Hartley pensions rollercoaster ride, Woodford Campaign, Digitisation Taskforce Interim Report follow-up, Defective legislation thwarts Europa Oil shareholders, Labour Party financial services review, ShareSoc response to…

ShareSoc Informer – Issue 128

…to the manager, Human impact of the Hartley Pensions case, Woodford Campaign: Link judgment, Will the FCA help or harm Home REIT shareholders?, ShareSoc and UKSA respond to FCA enforcement…

Nominee Accounts

It is important to emphasise that only “Members” of the company are guaranteed the right to attend any General Meetings and vote on resolutions put to members. Members will be listed on the share register and only those who hold their shares in either paper certificate form or are “Personal Crest Members” will be listed [...]Read more

Policies

Successful and profitable investment relies on an appropriate regulatory and legal framework.  The Companies Act 2006 was the largest  parliamentary bill ever published.  There are further layers of government regulations and rules from other bodies and policies on top of that. Some of these issues can seem very esoteric to the novice investor, or boring [...]Read more

Defeating Shareholder Democracy at Alliance Trust et al

…by these issues. That is why ShareSoc has been running a campaign on the issue of shareholder rights and the problems of nominee accounts – see https://www.sharesoc.org/campaigns/shareholder-rights-campaign/ . We would…

UK Stock Market Statistics

UK Statistics This page contains some background information on the UK stock market, and the investors in it, including the role of individual investors. There are two problems with obtaining and analysing this information. One is the difficulty that many shares are now held in nominee accounts, so identifying the beneficial owners is not easy. [...]Read more

Potential Claim vs Media Corporation

ShareSoc member Steven Egan is leading a campaign seeking redress against the former Media Corporation plc and its directors. Details of that campaign can be found here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/defrauded-purple-lounge-registered-customers/ Please note…

Protect your rights, act now!

…raising this issue at AGMs and writing to your MP, as suggested below. Probably the most important ShareSoc campaign is the Shareholder Rights campaign, launched in October 2014 to gain…

Understanding Corporate Governance

Understanding Corporate Governance and the Regulatory Environment In this article ShareSoc explains the meaning and importance of good corporate governance and the regulatory environment applicable to you as an investor, to the companies and instruments you may invest in, to the markets you can trade in, and to the brokers/platforms you may use. Contents Introduction [...]Read more

Ventus and Ventus 2 – Voting Recommendations from ShareSoc – 28 June 2019

ShareSoc, the UK Individual Shareholders Society, has a campaign called the ShareSoc VCT Investors Group who campaign against egregious fees and long tenure NEDs and is supportive of the Ventus…

Rensburg AIM VCT (RSB) AGM Report 2012 – Substantial votes against the directors

On the 26th July I attended the Annual General meeting of Rensburg AIM VCT. ShareSoc has been running a campaign on this Venture Capital Trust since October 2011 (see www.sharesoc.org/campaigns.html…

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