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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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Experian plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 16th July 2025 Proxy deadline: 14th July 2025 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 16th July 2025 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 ...

BT Group plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 10th July 2025 Proxy deadline: 8th July 2025 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 10th July 2025 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 ...

Trump Accounts

  Better financial education, better investment launchpads for life, share ownership for all Should we be pressing for Starmer Accounts in the UK to rival Trump Accounts? Every child born in the USA from 31 Dec 2024 receives $1,000 in a Trump Account, a tax-deferred (not exempt) investment which tracks the performance of a broad-based US stock market index. Parents and others can also contribute up to $5,000 a year into the account. The Trump account will only invest in shares, not cash. The logic ...

SIGnet Launches New Group in Cambridge

SIGnet, a national network of individual investor groups, is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in Cambridge.  Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join.   SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes through free discussion and mutual education.  You are invited: to an initial online launch meeting to ...

National Grid plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 9th July 2025 Proxy deadline: 7th July 2025 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 9th July 2025 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 one of the resolutions, and for two on ...

3i Group plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 26 June 2025  Proxy deadline: 24 June 2025 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 26th June 2025 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 Launches New Group in Harpenden

SIGnet, a national network of individual investor groups, is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in Harpenden. Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join.   SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes through free discussion and mutual education.  You are invited: to an initial online launch meeting to ...

Class Action for Former Shareholders in STM

  A class action group is being formed to represent former STM shareholders. This development follows a letter from Edmund Truell and Jambo SRC Limited (“Jambo”) to certain former shareholders, which states that no deferred consideration is payable in respect of Jambo’s acquisition of STM. If you held shares in STM Group plc at the time of the takeover, you will have received a Deferred Consideration Unit (“DCU”), exchangeable into loan notes worth up to seven pence per DCU and redeemable in cash ...

Attending AGMs Using AJ Bell’s Voting Service

How their service works in practice Relatively recently, AJ Bell introduced an electronic voting service for clients, which can be accessed from the Account menu (Voting Instructions) when viewing your portfolio. The technology used for this (Broadridge) is the same as that which interactive investor (ii) use for their service. It also offers the option of requesting attendance at a general meeting, which can be found at the top of the form for completing voting instructions. When I use that option with ii, ...

Ashtead Group plc Company Information and EGM Vote Guidance 2025

Court Meeting: 10th June 2025, 10am EGM: 10th June 2025, 10:15am  Proxy deadline: 6th June 2025 ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing vote guidance and background information on leading companies. Below are links to the: 1. Stockopedia summary report. 2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 10am Court Meeting of 10th June 2025 based on their standard template. 3. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 10:15am EGM of 10th June 2025 based on their standard template. 4. Minerva detailed research report for the Court ...
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