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I always say that it is ridiculous that they let you buy AIM mining and oil companies that are nothing but lifestyle companies for the directors, yet the stop you buying decent companies. I-web (Halifax/Lloyds) have made a mockery of my ISA by adopting a stance of "we no longer allow investment in this company". I have had arguments because they never warn you they have stopped allowing them. I have repeatedly sold shares or paid money in and then found I can't buy what I want. I've lost track of the times it has happened. Impact Health, Twenty Four Monthly, Twenty Four select, Triple Point SOHO, Triple Point TEC, GRID etc etc. Most companies won't get involved. Impact Health did and got the decision reversed, but I-web still blocked them again later.
I've moved all my non-ISA holdings to Jarvis X-O, and taken this years ISA with them. They allow you to take a simple test and then mark you as a qualified investor and I have been able to buy everything I wanted since.
Still stuck with years of ISA money in I.Web though.
Sorry to hear Mrs.K hasn't been well. Hopefully retirement will improve things. Yes we made it to the coast. Very difficult, but everything sort of fell into place. Just renting for now, but keeping the proceeds well away from the stock market.
Yes, GSK was one of my original "quarterly" investments. I hadn't though of selling until I noticed at the weekend that the quarterly dividend just paid gave me a yield of under 1% (ie under 4% pa). That is usually a cut off point for me, and given that I had £600 profit, it was an easy decision.
Almost there with my nice, steady portfolio of around 75 quarterly or monthly dividend payers.
Thanks for your opinion @K. I sold out of GSK this morning and will reserve the cash for Gore Street. Sad that I'm out at the moment, but with the long gap between dividends and the probably lower final dividend, it made sense to use the money elsewhere. Can't win them all.
I should contact Impact - I have found them to be very helpful and responsive to shareholders, and when you have their reply, make an official complaint to Barclays.
My Impact holding is in my ISA with I-web (Halifax) who are probably the worst broker in existence. They notified me of the offer, but I didn't take it up because I was waiting ages for them to return my cash from the Bluefield Solar offer - way after everyone else had received theirs.
Well, I never read ADVFN, or The Times., so I'm happy to have a small top up at 70.6p, bring my average down a bit. Still way over your entry price @talcy, but people have been attacking Civitas for some time now, purely for their own profit though.
https://www.trustintelligence.co.uk/investor/articles/fund-research-investor-taylor-maritime-investments-retail-jun-2022/returns#profile
Not sure if you can read without joining, but it's free anyway. Well worth a read.
I think we have to wait for the AGM on 13th. June where they are proposing a change to the way dividends are approved.
Resolution 4 – Dividend Policy
Under the Company’s Articles of Association (the “Articles”), the Board is authorised to approve the
payment of interim dividends without the need for the prior approval of the Company’s shareholders.
However, having regard to corporate governance best practice relating to the payment of interim
dividends without the approval of a final annual dividend by a company’s shareholders, the Board has
decided to seek express approval of its dividend policy, set out on page 21 of the Annual Report.
Totally agree with you Genghis, but your not locked out. Almost all my holdings are now in my ISAs, but that doesn't stop us taking part in PB offers. Annoying, but just play them. Take the offer at 35p, accept them into a normal account, and sell them when they are back at 40p...or not. Anyway, I got full allocation of 6000 shares.
No they don't reply to e.mails - I last e.mailed them because I thought it was important they knew that certain brokers had stopped allowing investors to buy their shares. It had to have some bearing on the share price if a percentage of investors were unable to buy. No reply of course, so presume they did nothing about it.
Some companies are great at replying - Impact Health, DEC etc. Most aren't bothered. "We" might own the company, but well, we don't really. Soem of us get a vote if we are lucky. The company gets nothing out of us buying on the market, they only care when they need our cash. That's why I hold shares in some companies that I will never sell, while others I am happy to profit from in any way I can - and why I'm out of Gore St at the moment. But I don't suppose they read these messages either.