Meeting:

Monthly Meeting - May 2005

 

Held at:

The Brocklebank, Crewe

Date:

16th May 2005

 

 

Time:

17:00 – 18:15

Prepared by

Dave G

 

Chairperson:

Adrian T

 

Present:

Adrian T

 

 

Chris B

 

 

Dave G

 

 

Richard W

 

 

Simon B

 

 

Apologies:

Kit P

 

 

 

Chairman’s Acceptance of Minutes

 


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Signature

Date

 

 

 

1           NEXT MEETING

Proposed dates for future meeting are as below.  Each to be confirmed at the preceding meeting:-

            Monday 20th June

            Monday 18th July (AGM)

            Wednesday 10th August

            Monday 19th September

            Monday 17th October

            Monday 21st November

            Monday 19th December 

2           Minutes of previous meeting

The heading should have said “April” instead of “March” and the Cape stop loss should have been shown as 137.2 instead of 135.6.

3           ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS MEETING

3.1          Actions Closed Since Last Meeting

Ref.

Description & Progress

Status

SB/0323/03

Correct the buy proposal form, especially the market cap entry.

0420: No progress

COMPLETE

DG/0420/01

Propose revised dates for future meetings

COMPLETE

CB/0420/02

Amend treasurers report to show champions for UBC Media and Raymarine

COMPLETE

ALL/0420/03

Determine appropriate sector for Raymarine

0516: Electrical and Electronic Equipment

COMPLETE

ALL/0420/04

Consider revising/relaxing the value mechanical criteria to allow 5-6 stocks few

0516: Agreed not to relax the filters any further even though this may result in no candidates.  In that circumstance, we would run with a gap in the mechanical portfolio and would decide how best to fill the gap (e.g. would we just wait till the following month?) if and when it happens.

COMPLETE

DG/0420/05

Look out for more details to enter the club for the Money Observer competition

0516: See “Competition” section of these minutes

COMPLETE

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 (mainly lowlights, it must be said!).   Bad month again with our holdings down £2356, equivalent to a 7.7% drop.  Net assets actually rose by approx £200 but that was only due to increases in subs from some people and the cheque from winning the proshare award.  Unit value down from 590.736 to 550.780.  We have £6359.88 of non-mechanical cash.

4.2          Matters Arising From Report

Chris has worked out the tax calculations for the 185 tax form.  Chris will transfer the numbers onto the form unless anyone spots a mistake.

Oystertec will rename to Advanced Fluid Connectors during the next month.

5           PORTFOlio Management

5.1          Monthly Money Management Checks

Fundamental portfolio is still “Too low” (22% against strategic minimum of 25%).

5.2          Mechanical Portfolio

This is a month for the ‘Growth’ side of the portfolio with 4Imprint being sold and replaced by Dart Group.  Dart Group was 3rd in the candidate list but we already held Cape and Carclo which were the top two candidates.  Richard to carry out the transactions.

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

252.50

Yes

231.28

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

346.00

No

382.05

Hyder

Growth

Sep 2005

150.00

225.00

22.50

231.50

Yes

209.00

Lambert Howarth

Value

Oct 2005

272.00

408.00

40.80

363.00

No

408.00

Oystertec

Growth

Nov 2005

24.65

36.98

3.70

30.75

No

36.98

Taylor Woodrow

Value

Nov 2005

242.39

363.59

36.36

312.25

No

363.59

Bellway

Value

Dec 2005