Hasard Global founder acquires shares worth £1.8m

The Non-Executive Chairman and founder of Hansard Global, Dr Leonard Polonsky, has increased his stake in the specialist long-term savings provider with the purchase of two million shares. Taking his stake in the group to 41.34%, Polonsky spent 90p a share at a total trade value of £1.8m. The deal was made three weeks after the group reported profitable trading for the nine months ended March 31st, although said new business volumes were around 45% below the level of new business for the comparative period in the prior financial year. Meanwhile, after the close on Thursday, business-to-business FTSE small cap group Brammer said its Chief Executive Officer Ian Fraser had sold close to a third of his stake in the group, profiting from gains seen in the share price since the release of an upbeat statement two weeks earlier. In a deal worth £1.9m, Brammer and an unnamed connected person pocketed an average of 479p on each of the 400,000 shares, which were sold during the one week period ended May 29th. A board member since 1998, the director retained a beneficial interest of 915,151 shares. He also holds options over a 1.87% stake in the group. Top Director BuysHansard Global (HSD) Director name: Mr Leonard PolonskyAmount purchased: 2,000,000 @ 90.00p Value: £1,800,000Renovo Group (RNVO) Director name: Mr Matt CooperAmount purchased: 3,000,000 @ 16.00p Value: £480,000Top Director SellsWhitbread (WTB) Director name: Mr Andy Harrison Amount sold: 63,423 @ 4,161.90p Value: £2,639,602Whitbread (WTB) Director name: Mr Christopher C B RogersAmount sold: 44,679 @ 4,161.90p Value: £1,859,495Vectura Group (VEC) Director name: Dr Chris BlackwellAmount sold: 1,132,265 @ 131.00p Value: £1,483,267Whitbread (WTB) Director name: Mr Patrick DempseyAmount sold: 19,812 @ 4,161.90p Value: £824,556Inchcape (INCH) Director name: Mr Andre LacroixAmount sold: 121,654 @ 625.06p Value: £760,410CSR (CSR) Director name: Dr Levy GerzbergAmount sold: 65,460 @ 580.14p Value: £379,760Lok'n Store Group (LOK) Director name: Mr Simon ThomasAmount sold: 200,000 @ 204.00p Value: £408,000Leaf Clean Energy Co (DI) (LEAF) Director name: Mr Bran KeoghAmount sold: 500,000 @ 49.70p Value: £248,500CSR (CSR) Director name: Dr Levy GerzbergAmount sold: 23,532 @ 562.51p Value: £132,370TT Electronics (TTG) Director name: Mr Tim Roberts Amount sold: 60,000 @ 206.00p Value: £123,600NR