Patrick Childs

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  • in reply to: Shareholder Rights #28070
    Patrick Childs
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      We are a very select group on this forum! I am rather sorry to see that and wonder how we could gather more momentum.
      I am also an Ii investor and had my concerns about the takeover by the appalling ABRDN. But I believe that the founder is still involved in the management, can’t remember his name.
      The whole UK quoted company system seems to be creaking with no-one wanting to buy the shares – or at any rate not enough people. In the case of individuals that will be because the FCA has more or less banned anyone who might give advice from doing so. Why is that?
      They have also forced companies to put so much information into Annual Reports that you cannot find what you want. And then consultants add a lot of useless presentation guff. And the report is too big to keep. Read it online, they say.
      AT the recent Shaftesbury (property) AGM I asked why they had not included any detail of acquisitions and disposals in the report. In fact I asked where it was in the report. The answer was that it wasn’t there. It was in the RSN’s (someone please correct me if that’s not the right expression) they had put out during the year. Ok, but how can they think that such information does not also belong in the report?

      in reply to: Shareholder Rights #15729
      Patrick Childs
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        Mark
        Many thanks for getting back to me on the Reports issue.

        Actually I was told on Friday that they do still offer this service. I had to speak to a person while trying to deal in a foreign stock and he told me how to opt into paper communications. In fact he said that he had changed the option for me, also including paper contract notes.
        I am waiting to see if I receive any material following the stated change. . . .
        Unfortunately I cannot remember where on the website he directed me to to achieve this.

        Patrick


        in reply to: Shareholder Rights #15622
        Patrick Childs
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          Thanks Mark, this table is brilliant.

          This is Patrick from Leicester Square Signet. I have been with Share Centre. They have been very good at getting the registrars to send paper copies of annual reports etc. I even recently received the massive offer document for Shaftesbury’s open offer.
          As you know they are being taken over by Interactive. The information I received was that interactive do not provide this service, although your table indicates that they do. Do you have any updated information?

          I will try to get them on the telephone, although this is increasingly difficult. Paper copies of contract notes would be good, although I dont’ think they do this either. You get an email after about 48 hours telling you to log in to the website to download your contract note. To me that is very “clunky”. I would like to be looked after with a more automatic follow up.

          Finally do you know the details of what section of the Companies Act the information rights are set out in?

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