(Sharecast News) - IP Group revealed on Monday that Fiona Flint had acquired 46,000 ordinary shares in the intellectual property investor.

Flint, the wife of chairman Douglas Flint, purchased the shares on Thursday at an average price of 58.40p each, for a total value of £26,864.

As of 1620 GMT, IP Group shares were down 2.25% at 54.35p.

Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com

Top Director Buys

Ip Group (IPO)

Director name: Flint,Douglas J

Amount purchased: 46,000 @ 58.40p

Value: £26,864.00

Lindsell Train Inv Trust (LTI)

Director name: Lindsell,Michael

Amount purchased: 25 @ 102,500.00p

Value: £25,625.00

The European Smaller Companies Trust (ESCT)

Director name: Burgess,Daniel

Amount purchased: 16,000 @ 159.75p

Value: £25,560.00

Lindsell Train Inv Trust (LTI)

Director name: Lindsell,Michael

Amount purchased: 25 @ 102,000.00p

Value: £25,500.00

Ip Group (IPO)

Director name: Smith,Greg

Amount purchased: 35,052 @ 57.10p

Value: £20,014.69

Ip Group (IPO)

Director name: Baynes,David

Amount purchased: 35,068 @ 56.70p

Value: £19,883.56

Tritax Big Box Reit (BBOX)

Director name: Brown,Elizabeth

Amount purchased: 11,042 @ 135.16p

Value: £14,924.37

Weir Group (WEIR)

Director name: Brewer,Dame Nicola

Amount purchased: 500 @ 1,899.65p

Value: £9,498.24

Edinburgh Worldwide Inv Trust (EWI)

Director name: Simpson-Dent,Jonathan

Amount purchased: 5,000 @ 157.90p

Value: £7,895.00

Bp (BP.)

Director name: Auchincloss,Murray

Amount purchased: 68 @ 557.00p

Value: £378.76

Bp (BP.)

Director name: Looney,Bernard

Amount purchased: 55 @ 557.00p

Value: £306.35

Travis Perkins (TPK)

Director name: Roberts,Nick

Amount purchased: 16 @ 950.81p

Value: £152.13

Oxford Instruments (OXIG)

Director name: Barkshire,Ian

Amount purchased: 6 @ 2,531.00p

Value: £151.86

Oxford Instruments (OXIG)

Director name: Hill,Gavin

Amount purchased: 6 @ 2,531.00p

Value: £151.86

Easyjet (EZJ)

Director name: Jarvis,Kenton

Amount purchased: 30 @ 503.00p

Value: £150.90

Sabre Insurance Group (SBRE)

Director name: Carter,Geoffrey Richard

Amount purchased: 147 @ 102.00p

Value: £149.94

Hyve Group (HYVE)

Director name: Backhouse ,Nick

Amount purchased: 26 @ 102.25p

Value: £26.59

Top Director Sells

Alfa Financial Software Holdings (ALFA)

Director name: Page,Andrew

Amount sold: 16,000,000 @ 135.00p

Value: £21,600,000.38

Spirax-sarco Engineering (SPX)

Director name: Anderson,Nicholas John

Amount sold: 7,432 @ 11,158.00p

Value: £829,262.57

Spirax-sarco Engineering (SPX)

Director name: Patel,Nimesh

Amount sold: 6,710 @ 11,158.00p

Value: £748,701.81

Standard Chartered (STAN)

Director name: Winters,Bill

Amount sold: 13,271 @ 782.60p

Value: £103,858.85