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Qube have an interesting short on FUTR as well…mainly not going their way. Like Stills, in both FUTR and EZJ any weakness is a buying op.

Did someone say Debit Suisse?

Predictive text made the man a Marvell not a Mardell.

JLR’s foot in mouth from Adrian Marvell says it all…manufacturers do not make their vehicles adequately protected against theft and then get bolshie with everyone else because insuring against the nick- ability of their cars is putting off buyers…JLR tried their hand at car insurance and gave it up..it’s a specialist market needing experts not car salesmen…go, Admiral!

Discount to NAV is more a reflection of IT investors losing faith in Abrdn under Bird’s direction.

It’s time to vote again. It suits Abrdn to close this trust but is it really in the shareholders interest? The NAV is substantially higher than the share price, and there is a lot of jam tomorrow being offered in the proposal to shutter this. How far is the discount to NAV a reflection on how far shareholders and IT investors have lost faith in Abrdn rather than the IT itself? I’m voting against all proposals until the Board of Abrdn show Bird the bird.

First they lost their ‘e’s, now they intend to lose their ‘b’s , alas not Bird but Bird is trying to replace Bloomberg terminals…he is a classic operations bloke in the wrong job.

Stephen Bird should go…then there would be a chance for this company’s SP to improve.

The man lacks any attributes of a successful CEO

If the customer wants zero interest purchasing arrangements, how does the customer expect these arrangements to be paid for?

Separately, STB is trading at discount to NAV…FCA investigations aside, it looks like a decent punt, with useful yield.

The startling consequences of monopile wind turbine sails is that they do not appear toe recyclable….oops, more startling consequences of ill-considered green energy.

Stephen Bird resigning? Would push share price up, which the share buy-back has singularly failed to do.

I guess the number crunchers are just shelling out chicken feed

Are the FCA targeting insurers because they are low-hanging fruit? Credit card APR rates are shocking, and always have been not to mention pay-day loan rates etc etc. If the FCA is so concerned with those less able to pay, they should move on those companies.

That’s the theory but in practice rarely leads to better share price performance.

Better use of the ££ as dividends would push the share price more effectively.

And India is bidding to hold whichever COP it it in 2028…!?!?

It’s not just the number of delegates etc attending , it’s all their entourages, hangers-on, bag carriers etc ….I think the Egypt COP counted 400,000 attendees plus extras etc present. What’s wrong with Zoom? Can’t wait to see Just Stop Oil protesting in UAE…love a bit of spectator sport

Departure of CEO at year end might be having a depressive effect

For a bit of hubris, reading the broker ratings from get-go is fun.

Actually, this is the same argument that companies always push for share buybacks…but I don’t see it reflected in the share price…rather obvious in RNS that Abrdn has paid more for the shares than current share price..it ain’t working to support the share price.

If they want their share price to go up, stop the share buyback, some £250M currently spent.

The only ones profiting from this are the stockbrokers…certainly not the shareholders and if management’s pay is linked to the share price, not them.

Ooh...bit of mano a mano; who are your protagonists?

Nigel didn't exactly make his cash in a poor man's business.

Having seen similar problems with personal and corporate friends, I reckon Nigel was moving money to and fro overseas...which would have started the alarm bells going with any bank these days.