ShareSoc News

NatWest Group plc Company Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 23rd April 2025 Proxy deadline: 17th April 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 23rd April 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 nine of the resolutions, and one on a case-by-case ...

BP Company Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 17th April 2025 Proxy deadline: 15th April 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 17th April 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 voting ...

British American Tobacco plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 16th April 2025 Proxy deadline: 14th April 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 April 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 voting ...

SIGnet Launches New Group in London

SIGnet, a national network of individual investor groups, is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in London. The group will meet during the day on a Friday and investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join. SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly or every 6 weeks, 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 ...

Law Debenture encouraging increased AGM attendance

Shareholders are encouraged to invite a guest so they can experience an AGM Law Debenture Corporation (LWDB) will hold its AGM on 11th April at the Peel Hunt offices in London. ShareSoc is pleased to see that not only is Law Debenture holding a hybrid AGM, allowing in-person or online attendance, but they are also encouraging shareholders to invite a guest, to allow them to experience what an AGM is like. A great initiative, which is part of Law Debenture's financial education ...

FCA Consults on Fund Product Information and Cost Disclosure CP24/30 – ShareSoc Responds

In November 2024, the FCA launched a consultation on a proposed product information and cost disclosure regime for funds – now referred to by the regulator as CCIs (Composite Consumer Investments).  ShareSoc has become increasingly concerned in recent years by the divergent and often perverse implementations of cost disclosure by UK retail platforms under the EU regulations for Packaged Retail and Insurance-Based Investment Products (PRIIPS) and MiFID II. A particular area of concern has been listed closed-end funds (investment companies and investment trusts), ...

Last chance to join the RGL Woodford Group Litigation against Hargreaves Lansdown

30th April 2025 Deadline Announced Claims management firm RGL has announced a deadline for individuals to register their potential claims under the no-win-no-fee funding arrangement. Writing in The Mail on Sunday, Jeff Prestridge notes that the RGL claim is free to join, with RGL taking a share of the bounty only if the group claim is successful. It's time to make your mind up if you were a Hargreaves customer who invested in Woodford Equity Income Fund (WEIF). There are currently over 8,300 claimants on ...

SIGnet Investors Network Launches New Online National Group

SIGnet is excited to announce the launch of a new online group which Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join. SIGnet is a national network of individual investor groups in the UK. Groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly or every 6 weeks, 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. This new group will ...

AstraZeneca plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 11th April 2025 Proxy deadline: 9th April 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 11th April 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 three of the resolutions. Readers should make their own ...

SIGnet Investors Network Launches New Group in Windsor

SIGnet is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in Windsor. Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join.   SIGnet is a national network of individual investor groups in the UK. Groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly or every 6 weeks, 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.  The aim ...

Rio Tinto plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025

AGM: 3 April 2025 Proxy deadline: 1 April 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 3rd April 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 voting decisions ...

ShareSoc’s first Chair’s lunch

On Monday 3rd March we held our first Chair’s lunch with a number of key people who support ShareSoc’s ambitions in raising the profile of the individual investor.  The lunch was sponsored by our Patron Lord Lee and was held in the House of Commons. Our Chair, Heather Benjamin, was joined by Gervais Williams (Premier Miton), Claer Barrett (Financial Times), Fraser Thorne (Edison), Alex Stella (Investor Hub), Richard Stone (AIC), James Ashton (QCA) and ShareSoc directors Mike Dennis and Mark Northway.   ...