Meeting:

Monthly Meeting - March 2005

 

Held at:

Square One, Crewe

Date:

23rd March 2005

 

 

Time:

16:45 – 17:50

Prepared by

Dave G (from Adrian T’s notes)

 

Chairperson:

Adrian T

 

Present:

Adrian T

 

 

Richard W

 

 

Simon B

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apologies:

Chris B

 

 

Dave G

 

 

Kit P

 

 

 

Chairman’s Acceptance of Minutes

 


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Signature

Date

 

 

 

1           NEXT MEETING

Proposed dates of next meetings:-

Wednesday 20th April

Wednesday 18th May

Wednesday 15th June

Wednesday 13th July (AGM)

Wednesday 10th August (to include strategy review)

Wednesday 7th September

Wednesday 5th October

Wednesday 2nd November

December date to be arranged.

2           Minutes of previous meeting

Accepted.

3           ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS MEETING

3.1          Actions Closed Since Last Meeting

Ref.

Description & Progress

Status

CB/0106/03

Produce some exit criteria for UBC Media

0222: No progress

COMPLETED

CB/0106/04

Prepare a further buy proposal for UBC Media if we should be spending more on UBC Media than just what was remaining in the Abbey account

0222: Left open just in case Chris was still considering this.

COMPLETED

CB&AT/0106/07

(action changed from
DG/0106/07 at 22nd February 2005 meeting)

Propose a form of words as a rule change to allow ad-hoc purchases of additional units and to remove upper limit on monthly subs

0222: Was done but has not been formally approved.  Those attending voted unanimously to go with the rule change but we need 75% of the membership to agree before the rules can be changed.  As neither Chris nor Adrian could attend the meeting, action left open until either one agrees the change or until both reject the change.

0323: CB agreed to wording so rule is now formally agreed

COMPLETED

RW/0222/01

Purchase appropriate “top up” of Wagon

COMPLETED

SB/0222/03

Look in Kit’s storage for the pot llama.

0323: The llama has been found and passed to Dave G.

COMPLETED

ALL/0222/04

Attempt to register and submit an entry for the Investaquest regional competition (as per Simon’s email in January) as the deadline is 4th March

COMPLETED

DG/0222/05

Consider whether or not to also attend the Proshare Awards Dinner and get a ticket as necessary

0323: Dave did attend with Chris and Kit

COMPLETED

SB/0222/06

 

Discuss with Chris the possibility of taking notes during the Proshare Awards Dinner

0323: Dave G and Chris B took notes and will write them up. 

COMPLETED

3.2          Actions Carried forward to Next Meeting                         

See end of these minutes.

4           Treasurer’s Report

4.1          Monthly Report Summary

See separate report for detail. 

Highlights/Lowlights  A reasonably good month with a rise of £677 on holdings.  Unit value up from 601.064 to 611.193.  We have £5987.98 of non-mechanical cash.

4.2          Matters Arising From Report

None

5           PORTFOlio Management

5.1          Monthly Money Management Checks

Fundamental portfolio is still “Too low” (16% against strategic minimum of 25%).

5.2          Mechanical Portfolio

This is a month for the ‘Growth’ side of the portfolio.  Horizon is the one to be sold, our first sale within the growth sub-portfolio. The replacement will be Carclo is the top selection.  Richard to make purchase of appropriate amount.

The table below now reflects the sell situation for each mechanical holding.  The appropriate sell condition (i.e. “Anniversary” or “Sell If Below”) is shown in bold.

Company

Portfolio

“Anniversary”

Purchase Price

Target Price

Trailing Stop Loss

High Since Purchase

Target Met?

Sell If Below

4Imprint

Growth

May 2005

141.50

212.25

21.23

250.00

Yes

228.78

Fyffes

Value

Jun 2005

117.34

176.00

17.60

160.00

No

176.00

Sportingbet

Growth

Jul 2005

99.05

148.58

14.86

349.00

Yes

334.14

McAlpine

Value

Aug 2005

254.70

382.05

38.21

337.00

No

382.05

Hyder

Growth

Sep 2005

150.00

225.00

22.50

231.50

Yes

209.00<