Healthcare Locums (HLO)

Healthcare Locums (HLO)

Blog posts

FT Acquisition, Toshiba, Diageo, Healthcare Locums, False Accounting, Chinese Companies, and AIM

The Financial Times is being sold by Pearson to Japanese media group Nikkei Group. The Chairman of Nikkei was quoted as saying it will be "business as usual" (in the FT of course) and that the "philosophy and values of the FT are the same as ours". Clearly they are still in the honeymoon period but let us hope that is true as the FT provides excellent factual news and commentary in general. Here's just some of the news they have ...
Post Date: July 25, 2015 Read more

AGM Reports

Healthcare Locums (HLO) AGM Report 2011

I arrived at the venue about 15minutes before the start time to be told that I would not be allowed in. As a nominee shareholder I had previously arranged that my broker to send HLO a letter of representation, but it appeared that it had not arrived. With four representatives on the door that looked as though they would be more appropriate on a nightclub entrance, it seemed likely that my journey was wasted. Frantic calls to broker to get them ...
Post Date: July 14, 2011 AGM Date: June 29, 2011 Author: Anthony Olander Prynne Read more

ShareSoc News

ShareSoc Launches E-Petition to Ensure Nominee Account Shareholders are Enfranchised

PRESS RELEASE 11 (17/09/2011) There are major problems in attending or voting at General Meetings of companies if your shares are held in a nominee account. One of ShareSoc’s key manifesto aims is to reform the disenfranchisement of most nominee shareholders, and ensure that they receive full information about the companies they own, as other shareholders do. We have created an E-Petition under the new arrangements established by the Government to address this. The Government has made a commitment that any petition that receives ...
Post Date: September 17, 2011 Read more

ShareSoc Recommends Shareholders Vote Against the Recapitalization Proposals for Healthcare Locums

PRESS RELEASE 10 (02/09/2011) Further to our previous press release on the subject of Healthcare Locums, the UK Individual Shareholder Society (ShareSoc) has concluded that if the proposals to recapitalize the company are voted down, then it is likely that alternative proposals will be put forward that would be more advantageous to most shareholders. We previously criticised the proposals recommended to shareholders by the board because of the very substantial dilution of shareholders. Minority shareholders (such as the individual shareholders we represent) may ...
Post Date: September 2, 2011 Read more