Directors

puk999

l.o.jones8686 wrote: »

Through my line of work, I get to meet numerous CEOs and you get a real feel for how they run the business and the effects their leadership will have. This has led me to invest in several select companies and my results have beat the market by several fold.

I'd dearly love to beat the market several fold too!

My point is that management are so critical to the fortunes of a company but everyday investors (private investors) generally don't ever get the opportunity to speak with the directors or CEOs.

Tell me about it! I find it annoying that I have invested in shares and can't talk to the CEOs of those companies. Grrr! :mad:

My question is that do you think directors and CEOs should make themselves more accessible to everyday investors?

Yes! If only there was a way for that to happen...

redux

l.o.jones8686 wrote: »

I just find it strange that you can invest, for example £2,000/£3,000/£10,000 into a company, but never get the opportunity to speak or even see management.

Presumably they notify you about the AGM.

They might even accept some decent questions from the audience. I'm guessing this part though, as I've never turned up.

ChesterDog

Somewhere along the line there - sorry, I haven't gone back to look - did you say that if I sell £10k of a holding I can knock £5m off the company's value?

I had better employ a PA to deal with all the CEOs who will be calling to arrange meetings with me.

jimjames

l.o.jones8686 wrote: »

Dunstonh, you do seem to know a lot about this space. Do you invest at all?

Can I sue you for the coffee that went all over my monitor? Maybe reading isn't your strong point?

ChesterDog

Continuing my point, why would I - or anyone, except perhaps DunstonH who you have astutely identified as knowing little about investments (but he did a super job on my plumbing) - even think of investing in a company that could have its value slashed by £5m by one £10k share disposable by Mrs Eiderduck Thimwhistle of Nether Wobsock?

As for the frazzled CEO of such an organisation, he would be far too busy looking for windows to throw himself out of to find time for webchats and the like.

P.S. DunstonH, can you have a look at my boiler again, please? It's still overheating.

somethingcorporate

A £10k shareholding impacting a share price by 5% of a multi-million pound company???? and you talk to CEOs???

Can you give an example of this please given the companies you deal with must be so fragile that they are made of soggy paper!

doe808

ChesterDog wrote: »

Somewhere along the line there - sorry, I haven't gone back to look - did you say that if I sell £10k of a holding I can knock £5m off the company's value?

If 4 or 5 of us sell a couple of grands worth tomorrow, we could probably drop the FTSE100 by 1000-2000 points. Lets try it at, say, 10.32am?

Pincher

There is another possibility.

The OP is an A.I. and some undergraduate is tuning his program for a Turing test.

It's stuck on an endless re-iteration of the same idea.

What SPF do you use on holiday?

Since you made money, what did you spend it on?

bigadaj

ChesterDog wrote: »

Continuing my point, why would I - or anyone, except perhaps DunstonH who you have astutely identified as knowing little about investments (but he did a super job on my plumbing) - even think of investing in a company that could have its value slashed by £5m by one £10k share disposable by Mrs Eiderduck Thimwhistle of Nether Wobsock?

As for the frazzled CEO of such an organisation, he would be far too busy looking for windows to throw himself out of to find time for webchats and the like.

P.S. DunstonH, can you have a look at my boiler again, please? It's still overheating.

I certainly hope we wouldn't see dunstonh in any boiler room.

redux

doe808 wrote: »

If 4 or 5 of us sell a couple of grands worth tomorrow, we could probably drop the FTSE100 by 1000-2000 points. Lets try it at, say, 10.32am?

Nah, it said illiquid

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