Meeting:

Monthly Meeting - June 2005

 

Held at:

The Brocklebank, Crewe

Date:

20th June 2005

 

 

Time:

17:15 – 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 16th July (AGM) – to be confirmed by email.

            Wednesday 10th August

            Monday 19th September

            Monday 17th October

            Monday 21st November

            Monday 19th December 

2           Minutes of previous meeting

Accepted.

3           ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS MEETING

3.1          Actions Closed Since Last Meeting

Ref.

Description & Progress

Status

ALL/1102/08

Consider how we could get a better return from our cash pile

1207: No progress

0106: No progress

0222: Left open to allow us to consider whether we should open an account in trust with a higher rate of interest

0323: No progress

0420: No progress

0516: Very much worth considering as the increase in subs, cheque from proshare and lack of buy proposals means we have an increasing cash pile again.   Suggestion was that we could open a deposit account with RBS whilst we were considering a longer term option.  See also action CB/0516/01 arising from this discussion.

0620: Closed and now superseded by CB/0516/01

COMPLETE

CB/0516/02

Transfer the tax calculations onto tax form 185.

0620: Chris supplied hardcopies of the completed forms, copies of which have been sent to the tax man

COMPLETE

RW/0516/03

Sell 4Imprint and buy Dart for the mechanical portfolio

COMPLETE

DG/0516/04

Contact Kit to make sure he is happy that his Money Observer entry is used to represent the club entry

0620: Not done….and too late now as the competition started on 1st June

DROPPED

ALL/0516/05

Enter the Money Observer Investor Of the Year competition (www.investoroftheyear.co.uk)

0620: Everyone had forgotten to do it and, with DG/0516/04 not being done either, Dave had forgotten on Kit’s behalf !

DROPPED

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:  Decent month with our holdings up approx £1300 on the month, equivalent to a 4% gain. Unit value up from 550.780 to 573.34.  We have £9718.68 of non-mechanical cash which is, quite frankly, getting ridiculous.

4.2          Matters Arising From Report

None.

5           PORTFOlio Management

5.1          Monthly Money Management Checks

Fundamental portfolio is still “Too low” (23% against strategic minimum of 25%).  Given the cash pile, fundamental proposals are strongly encouraged.

5.2          Mechanical Portfolio

This is a month for the ‘Value’ side of the portfolio with Fyffes being sold and replaced by Alumasc.  Alumasc was selected via the 3rd relaxation of the filters.  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

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

383.00

Yes

344.80

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

Advanced Fluid Connectors

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

329.00

No

363.59

Bellway

Value

Dec 2005

724.40

1086.60

108.66

894.00

No

1086.60

Hunting

Growth

Jan 2006

184.75

277.13

27.71

256.50

No

277.13

Wagon