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Adams should be applying to be the face of McDonalds ...hes the biggest clown around

Use of monies... oh of course, it should trigger a massive bonus for Adams ..how foolish of me

Worth reading AR for comments from Adams about "taking much of his rem in shares"...ignoring his tax-efficient consultancy fees for delivering no progress....and then the additional 2bn shares issued at ave price of 0.59 ....and then there's the Rem Report where ADamsa trousered the staggering cash figure of £48k, with another 185k of share bonus on top...grand total of £733k.. 2x his 2023 package.....And there's the Rem Committe approval of a short-term incentive plan (STI) which is the antithesis of what proper governance dictates i.e. Long Term Incentives....andf then my absolute favourite gem... the Ethiopian Govt appointing Adams as Honorary Consul to Cyprus

As long-term HAA watchers know, his relationship with the truth appears to be highly elastic. He nevers makes statements he doesnt break; he constantly dilutes his s/holders but not his own pocket given his past attempts with share grants. What is troubling is that given the latest presentation appears to show yet more slippage what did he promise his new institutional s/holders he crowed just a matter of weeks ago with the latest bazooka cash raise?

timing of these departures couldn't be more pointed. we had the fy2024 results barely a week ago, with the usual bull**** from newland , supported by his glove puppet cfo. given there was no whiff of this in the results, this is nothing less than a very public and direct rebuke of andrew newland & ian griffiths. juliet must have decided that post fy results she no longer had any faith in newland or griffiths, and was terminally fed up with newland's arrogance and fantasy commentaries. howlett has been another nodding donkey on bod that has allowed newland to destroy s/holder value and mislead s/holders for years. he should have been jettisoned years ago, but decides to jump while he can, proving his uselessness and cowardice.

Given the Board has been ineffective for some time in holding Newland to account, Howlett should have gone years ago, so no loss. Juliet Thompson, as a former investment banker/ adviser is concerning - I can only conclude that she has had enough of Newland’s bombast, and has called him out.

Ashmore and the Board continue to behave abysmally. Ashmore announced there would Capital Markets Days for both businesses in May. False to his word this has not happened and neither has he informed his investors why this hasn’t happened. And now this RNS about his advisers.

My guess is that Ashmore being the character he is has laid the blame on Numis for his own ( and his board’s) numerous governance failures and for the share price. Numis has probably resigned in protest at the behaviour of the company, and will be breathing a sigh of relief that they no longer have to front this up to investors. Meantime, we await news of the fictional capital markets days

Abdullahs have been poor stewards of value here but much of it was out of their hands: Covid; Rachel from Accounts; Rail sector fiasco; defence spending etc…However, QRO has been a great diversifier & kept the group ticking over thro some tough years. Affini looks like it has been money well spent. So looking forward we have a group with expertise & presence in 4 distinct markets, some of which have potential for crossover, at a point in the cycle where finally things may be starting to move on their favour. The illiquid nature of AIM coupled with very poor investor comms from the Board has meant this is off the radar of most investors. However that may be on cusp of changing if Rail & Defence finally begin to generate sustainable growing revenues, QRO’s product suite wins further contracts ; and Affini benefits from bigger resources & scope for cross selling. I maintain that this remains very undervalued given the deep expertise within each division & industry reputations.

A board of morons with 3rd rate advisory team. Whose idea was it to put out a trading statement which read like a car crash before the good news came a couple of days later. Why crater the sp rather than put out a proper positive leaning RNS. The CEO seems to have no clue about providing guidance to the market: the last raise was to expand the team ; now they are cost-cutting. The Board has led investors up the garden path for too long. Let’s hope that Baines is called to account for another disgraceful failure of leadership, commercial nous and governance

Suspect they are more appalled at Barrington’s lousy leadership, the advisers & hopeless market guidance !!!! As a/o else pointed out she was at LunglIfe previously, amd managed to get recycled onto Verici. She has not kept market informed properly. Last RNS was bloody Oct and s/holders are forced to wait for this dreadful update.

UK stock market has seen liquidity drained away thanks to the joint efforts of successive governments combined with gold plated financial regulation from the FSA FCA etc combined with refusal to remove ludicrous taxes like stamp duty. G Brown started the ball rolling when he withdrew dividend tax relief for pension funds....

CEO spoke about the pivot to SE Asia as being very important for next stage of growth...Vietnam being centre of footwear industry..building relationship with Nike etc....wouldnt be a bad idea for CEO to pick up the phone to his broker/big shareholders in next few days once the dust has settled and he's had time to digest the implications....

The second share buy-back is having no impact as per the first one! Buying 250,000 shares a day is being dwarfed by daily sales c4x that figure.

Use of Proceeds from sale: "the proceeds of the Disposal used to strengthen its balance sheet." Why does the balance sheet need any more strengthening?????

At FY results in Sept RNS had this headline:

"· Robust balance sheet with non-IFRS16 leverage6 maintained at 1.0x (H1 23: 1.0x) "....so what's changed?

AS Insomniax points out profit for Group is gonna be c£10m, so s/thing is going seriously awry, given in last 12 months Ashmore has sold off businesses that generated the same as the entire remaining group.

Does anyone know what Ashmore's strategy is? Does the Board know? Certainly not clear to this corrrespondent that Ashmore has a f****** clue! Perhaps that's why CFO threw in towel. Would appear to me that ProService is devouring cash and not producing anything like the returns Ashmore promised. Mean time it would appear that restructuring costs are going to be higher, and profits subdued. So this appears another throw of the dice to shore up the balance sheet (which we were told was in good shape) and fund working capital. Yet, Ashmore told that HSS Ireland was a fantastic business in a booming economy for data centres etc.....! Over last year, Ashmore has sold of Power Generator division & now Ireland, giving up £61m revenues & £9.9m EBITA..........worth reminding ourselves that the Trading Update forecast EBITA of £10m for the Group..

Absolutely not how the review system works......Barrington is like so many AIM execs...happy for s/holders to risk their capital while these execs loa up with gratis options and shares...

The Local Coverage Determination was submitted in Q1 2024.....and whilst I know that the regulatory wheels grind ever so slowly, and Trumpian chaos hasnt helped, the utter silence from the CEO on anything hardly inspires confidence. She seems completely unphased by the sp performance; and more tellingly she has not bought a single share. Time to earn your corn

Lightweight research note - just parrots company line; no explanation of how they reach their valuation; no attempt to set out business case....

Exactly - the braindead board has effectively provided Newland & Griffiths a massive retirement pot so that whatever happens Newland is quids in. Spitting anger here at the lies, hype and downright deception.