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- UKSA and ShareSoc Submission to Labour Party Review of Financial Services
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RELX – Company Information and Vote Guidance
by Cliff Weight, Director ShareSoc. These are my personal views and not necessarily those of ShareSoc. I do not own shares in REXL.
ShareSoc has introduced a new added value service, for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance. Initially we are piloting this for FTSE30 companies, plus a few others in the FTSE100.
You can access all the information that ShareSoc has written on a company by clicking on the Research and Company Research buttons in ...
Post Date: April 17, 2021
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Platform Transfers – It’s Even Worse Than Thought
I commented last month on an article in Investors Chronicle by Mary McDougall on the subject of platform transfers, and how they are inordinately slow. Despite past efforts by the FCA, the situation does not seem to be getting any better. My latest transfer, which was commenced on the 12th of January, is still not complete. The shareholdings have recently been transferred to the selected new platform but not the substantial cash holding in the portfolio.
But according to the latest article ...
Post Date: April 16, 2021
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Rio Tinto – Company Information and Vote Guidance
by Cliff Weight, Director ShareSoc. These are my personal views and not necessarily those of ShareSoc.
ShareSoc has introduced a new added value service, for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance. Initially we are piloting this for FTSE30 companies, plus a few others in the FTSE100.
You can access all the information that ShareSoc has written on a company by clicking on the Research and Company Research buttons in the header on any ShareSoc webpage. This ...
Post Date: April 8, 2021
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Comparison of Woodford Claims
The Investors Chronicle have published on 30 March 2021 a useful table comparing the 4 ongoing Woodford Claims:
(note, as at 10 June 2022, Leigh Day have >12,000 claimants and Harcus Parker c 7,500. ShareSoc do not know any more recent numbers for RGL and Slater & Gordon.)
ShareSoc endorsed the Leigh Day Claim, in November 2020 on the basis of information available at that time. The table highlights that the Leigh Day claim and Harcus Parker claim are both against Link, both ...
Post Date: April 5, 2021
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Strategic Equity Capital GM
SEC still has a 20% discount (258p share price versus 312p NAV) and the Directors own pitifully few shares so have little skin in the game and no incentive to sort this out.
I have registered my protest vote, via interactive investors' excellent voting platform (NOTE TO HARGREAVES LANSDOWN - you really ought to provide a better voting service to your customers). I think my vote is a protest vote as it looks likely the directors will win. Other shareholders should consider ...
Post Date: March 22, 2021
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