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This blog gives you the latest topical news plus some informal comments on them from ShareSoc’s directors and other contributors. These are the personal comments of the authors and not necessarily the considered views of ShareSoc. The writers may hold shares in the companies mentioned. You can add your own comments on the blog posts, but note that ShareSoc reserves the right to remove or edit comments where they are inappropriate or defamatory.

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BP. – BP plc Information and Vote Guidance 2024

AGM: 25th April 2024  Proxy deadline: 23rd April 2024 ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance. Below are links to the: 1. Stockopedia summary report. 2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 25th April 2024 AGM based on their standard template. 3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM. Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM  The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against two of the resolutions. Readers should make their own ...

BATS – British American Tobacco plc Information and Vote Guidance 2024

AGM: 24th April 2024  Proxy deadline: 22nd April 2024  ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance. Below are links to the: 1. Stockopedia summary report. 2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 24th April 2024 AGM based on their standard template. 3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM. Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM  The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against two of the resolutions. Readers should make their own ...

Press Release 128: Four new directors join ShareSoc’s Board

ShareSoc, the UK membership organisation for individual investors, is delighted to announce the appointment of Bob Pettigrew, Ram Sachdev, Vijay Tohani and Elliott Hughes as Non-Executive Directors. Bob Pettigrew has over 25 years of investing experience in new business opportunities in leading-edge technologies, successfully managing their development from concept to commercialisation. He is an active angel investor and member of Cambridge Angels, a group of investors with extensive experience of founding, growing, mentoring, and financing early-stage ventures across a wide range of ...

AZN – AstraZeneca plc Information and Vote Guidance 2024

AGM: 11th April 2024 Proxy deadline: 9th April 2024 ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance. Below are links to the: 1. Stockopedia summary report. 2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 11th April 2024 AGM based on their standard template. 3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM. Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM  The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against three of the resolutions. Readers should make their own ...

RIO – Rio Tinto plc Information and Vote Guidance 2024

AGM: 4th April 2024 Proxy deadline: 2nd April 2024 ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance. Below are links to the: 1. Stockopedia summary report. 2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 4th April 2024 AGM based on their standard template. 3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM. Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM  The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against two of the resolutions. Readers should make their own ...

SIGnet Investors Network Launches New Taunton Group

SIGnet is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in Taunton.  Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join. The Convener of the group will be Tom Entwistle. Tom has been an active investor in the stock market and residential and commercial property for over 50 years, and the Convener of the SIGnet Manchester Group for the past 5 years. After 10 years in industry, Tom spent his main career as a lecturer and manager in further ...

Consumer Protection

I was very interested in ShareSoc’s proposals for the Labour Party concerning the review of financial services. My particular focus was the section headed “Consumer Protection”. I have been a tax adviser since 1985 and a financial planner since 1991. I have always considered the client’s understanding of the pros and cons of an investment strategy to be a pre-requisite for any investment advice. However, the constant impact of regulation on the advice process has led to poorer understanding by the client ...

SIGnet Investors Network Launches New Online Technical Analysis Group

SIGnet is excited to announce the launch of a new online Investors group focused on Technical Analysis. All levels of investing experience are welcome to join. The Convenor for the Group will be Christopher Pratt. Christopher is an experienced investor and technical analyst who has been a member of SIGnet from the first meeting in 1998. He convened a Technical Analysis (TA) group from 2000 to 2010, and a London Evening Group from 2012 to 2020. Until a few years ago he ...

Shareholders Stymied by Slow Government Reforms

Ludicrous scaling back of orders for shares in JP Morgan Global Growth and Income Trust JP Morgan Global Growth and Income (JGGI) is a rare example, these days, of an investment trust that consistently trades at a premium to NAV, due to its popularity.  Due to the heavy demand for the company’s shares and its ability to deploy capital easily into some of the world’s largest and most successful businesses, the company announced a placing and retail offer for its shares. The company ...

SIGnet Investors Network Launches New West Sussex Group

SIGnet is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in West Sussex. Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join. The Convener of the new Group will be Leon Boros. Leon is a chartered accountant and former corporate financier. He has been an active investor since his mid-teens. He and his wife set up PEPs in 1993 (a predecessor to the ISA) and they have since achieved annualised returns of over 16.5%. Leon and his wife moved ...
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