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If you are a shareholder in Purplebricks make sure your vote counts

Post Date: December 5, 2022

…online voting systems such as Interactive Investor. But, if you haven’t already heard from your broker/platform you will need to ask them to vote on your behalf or to provide…

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4th May 2023

This is Money, 01 February 2025, Trusts facing fight to death with hedge fund vulture

Post Date: February 14, 2025

ShareSoc has condemned investment platforms for restricting shareholder voting rights amid hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein’s bid to take control of several UK investment trusts. Weinstein’s Saba Capital is pushing…

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Anexo – another delisting on the cheap?

Post Date: July 24, 2025

…redemption). There is also an “Alternative Offer” to receive non-voting shares in the new private company, which are equally illiquid. The bidders, who already control ~63% of the company, have…

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Chancellor’s Autumn Statement – What’s in it for investors?

Post Date: December 4, 2014

…tax raising measure is to stop takeovers by “schemes of arrangement” where stamp duty is avoided. This will also please many investors because voting arrangements are different and such schemes…

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Defeating Shareholder Democracy at Alliance Trust et al

Post Date: July 6, 2015

…their voting rights (which has to be done via the nominee operator) is extremely problematic and difficult in practice. But the last problem with Alliance is that 24% of shareholders…

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BIS Release Paper Showing the Mind-Boggling Complexity of the Intermediated Shareholding Model

Post Date: January 19, 2016

…in the UK and the underlying systems that support shareholder rights (including voting). In essence it demonstrates perfectly the need for reform. It shows that private investors often do not…

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ShareSoc Deplores Withdrawal of Personal Crest Membership by Brokers

Post Date: August 24, 2015

…financial difficulties, as many do. The provision of indirect voting and representation by brokers (as Alliance Trust offer for example), is not a good alternative and generally does not work…

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SHARESOC INVESTOR MASTERCLASSES

Post Date: June 10, 2015

An Entertaining & Educational Evening for Investors Our Investor Masterclasses are intended for investors with all levels of experience. A panel of expert investors discusses topics of general interest to…

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Shareholder Action Group Launched for Alliance Trust

Post Date: May 12, 2015

…investment in Alliance Trust but is now a generic investment platform. This savings platform was claimed to be profitable at the operating level at the AGM in April 2015 but…

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ShareSoc Comments on the Proposals for Alliance Trust

Post Date: March 24, 2015

PRESS RELEASE 64 (24/3/2015) ShareSoc makes the following comments on the requisition to appoint three new non-executive directors to the board of Alliance Trust by Elliott Advisors. We do this…

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ShareSoc Deplores Excessive Pay for BG Group CEO

Post Date: November 28, 2014

PRESS RELEASE 62 (28/11/2014) On the 15th December BG Group have called an EGM at which shareholders are being asked to vote in favour of an outsized pay package for…

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