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VCT Investors Group Action Plan

23 ShareSoc members who are also members of the VCT investor group met on 26 February 2020 at the East India Club. We reviewed recent successes at Ventus, Albion,...

Ignoring the UK Corporate Governance Code

Last week there were Annual General Meetings of the Baronsmead 1 and 2 VCTs (BDV and BVT) and the British Empire Securities and General Trust (BTEM) on the same day. These companies are all investment trusts although the latter is of course somewhat different in nature to the two Venture Capital Trusts. They do have one thing in common though - they both claim to be able to report against the AIC Corporate Governance Code rather than the UK Corporate Governance ...

AGM Reports

Baronsmead VCT 1 and 2 Merger General Meetings (BDV and BVT) 2016

I attended the General Meeting of Baronsmead VCT this morning in London. It was immediately followed by a similar General Meeting for Baronsmead VCT 2, which I did not stick around for as my questions had been covered in the first meeting. These meetings were to approve the merger of these VCTs to form one larger Venture Capital Trust. The merger was on the usual "proportional net asset value" basis used for VCT mergers and as the two portfolios are almost ...

Baronsmead VCT plc (BVT) and Baronsmead VCT2 plc (BDV) AGM’s 2014

This report covers the Annual General Meeting of Baronsmead VCT 1 (BDV) and Baronsmead VCT 2 (BVT) which were combined together on the same day (today), along with a presentation by the fund manager between the two AGM’s. Both companies are managed by Living Bridge LLP, which as we know used to be called ISIS but had, for obvious reasons, to change its name. The meeting was held at Plaisterers hall in the city commencing at 10.30am. We started with the Baronsmead ...