Director dealings: Personal Assets Trust director lowers stake
11th Feb 2019 15:30
(Sharecast News) - Personal Assets Trust director Frank Rushbrook disposed of 114 ordinary shares in the Edinburgh based self-managed investment vehicle on Monday.
Read morePersonal Assets Trust lifts NAV but remains cautious on future
18th Nov 2016 07:33
(ShareCast News) - Investment company Personal Assets Trust reported increased net assets despite the uncertain economic climate, which has led it to take a cautious stance about the future Investment adviser Sebastian Lyon said "all is not well with the financial world" of slashed interest rates, f
Read morePersonal Assets Trust outperforms benchmark in 2015
5th Jun 2015 16:24
Self-managed investment trust Personal Assets Trust outperformed its benchmark index this year. The FTSE 250 group posted a 4.8% total return on net asset value per share in the year to 30 April compared with a 3.9% total return from the FTSE All-Share Index. The trust said it retained a high level
Read morePrudential Chairman keeps the faith
3rd Apr 2013 16:05
Paul Manduca, the Chairman of Prudential, the FTSE 100 life insurance company, this week showed his faith in the company with the purchase of 20,000 shares following a hefty fine levied by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) at the end of March. Manduca, who became Chairman in July of last year
Read moreDeparting Xstrata CFO sells hefty chunk of shares post-exercise
6th Dec 2012 16:23
Trevor Reid, the soon-to-depart Chief Financial Officer of mining group Xstrata, has traded in 1.44m shares after deciding not to take up the equivalent of his current position at the enlarged company following the merger with Glencore International. Reid, who sold the shares post-exercise, dispos
Read morePremier Foods director bites again
18th Nov 2011 16:02
Ian Deste, group sales director at struggling firm Premier Foods, has served himself up a helping of shares. The director purchased 186,746 shares 5.20p just a few weeks after the firm's bankers agreed to defer the company's end-of-year loan covenant tests by three months, in a move which forms pa
Read moreBramson tightens hold on FCAM
4th Nov 2011 17:31
Activist investor Edward Bramson effectively staged a board room coup earlier this year at F&C Asset Management, but having installed himself as chairman, he has continued to build up his interest in the company. On Friday, he acquired a beneficial interest of 200,000 shares in the asset management
Read moreBurberry non-exec invests £60,000
11th Feb 2011 16:35
Burberry non-executive Stephanie George has bought £59,500 worth of shares in the luxury clothing company. George bought 5,000 shares at 1189.99p each. That price is just short of the 12 month high. This purchase follows the acquisition of 6,300 shares at 798.773p a share last July. That cost £1
Read moreGooch & Housego finance boss sells stake
28th Jan 2011 17:01
Gooch & Housego's finance director Andrew Boteler has sold nearly half of his holding in the optical components and systems supplier. Boteler sold 13,000 shares and his wife another 2,000 shares. They were all sold at 515p each, raising a total of £77,250. Boteler still owns 16,065 shares. Botel
Read moreCluff finance boss invests £10,000
22nd Dec 2010 16:55
Cluff Gold's finance director has bought shares. Pete Gardner took up the post in October 2009 but this is the first time he has bought shares. He acquired 10,000 shares at 104.65p each, for a total outlay just short of £10,500. Gardner used to work in corporate finance for accountants PKF.
Read moreCrozier sells free ITV shares to pay the taxman
27th Oct 2010 17:07
Adam Crozier, the former chief executive officer of the Football Association and Royal Mail, and now occupying the same position at terrestrial broadcaster ITV, has sold off about half his shareholding in ITV. Crozier, who joined ITV on 26 April on a base salary of £775,000 per annum plus a pension
Read moreEuromoney publisher sells
25th Jan 2010 16:05
Neil Osborn, the publisher of Euromoney magazine, has sold nearly half of his stake in financial publisher and events organiser Euromoney Institutional Investor. Osborn sold 25,000 shares at 460p a share, which raised £115,000. Osborn is left with 27,675 shares. Last February, Osborn exercised o
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