Meeting:

Monthly Meeting  - Dec 2005

 

Held at:

By email

Date:

19th December 2005

 

 

Time:

During the entire day

Prepared by

Dave G

 

Chairperson:

Richard W

 

Present:

Adrian T

 

 

Richard W

 

 

Chris B

 

 

Dave G

 

 

Kit P

 

 

Simon B

 

 

Apologies:

none

 

 

Chairman’s Acceptance of Minutes

 


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Signature

Date

 

 

 

1           NEXT MEETING

To be proposed – possibly Jan 19th.

2           Minutes of previous meeting

Accepted.

3           ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS MEETING

3.1          Actions Closed Since Last Meeting

Ref.

Description & Progress

Status

RW/1128/02

RW to purchase £4000 of WITAN

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:  A good month’s performance with our holdings up 3.5% on the month.  Unit value up from 611.298 to 632.388.  We have £1,489 cash with an additional £8,298 in cash alternative investment trusts.

4.2          Matters Arising From Report

None

5           PORTFOlio Management

5.1          Monthly Money Management Checks

Fundamental portfolio is showing as “too low” with 16% held in this portfolio against strategic minimum of 25%.

We no longer have a Speculative holding but as the strategic range is  0%-25%, this is not actually “too low”.

Fundamental and Speculative proposals are still encouraged.

5.2          Mechanical Portfolio

Up 5.2% over the month versus the market’s 1.2% rise.

We currently have a vacant slot in the value side of the portfolio which will be filled once we have some valid candidates.

Due to sell Bellway from the Value side this month which, as there are still no candidates, means that we will have two vacancies to be filled.

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

Hyder

Growth

Sep-05

150.00

225.00

22.50

292.75

Yes

270.25

Bellway

Value

Dec-05

724.40

1086.60

108.66

1073.00

No

1086.60

Hunting

Growth

Jan-06

184.75

277.13

27.71

323.50

Yes

295.79

Wagon

Value

Feb-06

182.85

274.28

27.43

199.50

No

274.28

Carclo

Growth

Mar-06

67.50

101.25

10.13

88.50

No

101.25

Dart Group

Growth

May-06

295.70

443.55

44.36

359.50

No

443.55

Alumasc

Value

Jun-06

158.50

237.75

23.78

182.50

No

237.75

Charter

Growth

Aug-06

326.26

489.39

48.94

520.00

Yes

471.06

Wyndeham Press

Value

Oct-06

114.43

171.65

17.16

131.00

No

171.65

McAlpine (Alfred)

Value

Oct-06

347.97

521.96

52.20

395.00

No

521.96

Metnor Group

Growth

Nov-06

219.83

329.75

32.97

218.50

No

329.75

 

 

 

5.3          Monthly Reports For Each Company in Fundamental Portfolio

CodaSciSys

HOLD – Not yet met sell criteria (see table in 5.6 below)

ISG

HOLD – Not yet met sell criteria (see table in 5.6 below)

Pace

HOLD – Not yet met sell criteria (see table in 5.6 below)

Raymarine

HOLD – Not yet met sell criteria (see table in 5.6 below)

UBC Media

HOLD – Not yet met sell criteria (see table in 5.6 below)

 

See separate monthly reports for more detail. 

 

5.4          Speculative Portfolio

No holdings in the speculative portfolio.

Dave said that he been considering whether to submit a proposal for an iShare (e.g. something like IUKD which tracks the highest yeilding stocks in the FTSE 350).  Would not double in a year but is a different investment vehicle

5.5          Other Investments

Consideration was given to putting some more cash into one of the investment trusts.  Our subs now give us a high cash inflow.  It was agreed that we should discuss how best to manage this “problem” at the January meeting.

5.6          Stop Loss / Sell Criteria (as of date of treasurer’s report)

The following is the summary of sell criteria for each stock held within the Speculative or Fundamental portfolios The stop loss is invoked against the “end of day” price, but the sell decision may wait for the opening price to avoid rogue trades at the end of day.

Stock EPIC

Stock Name

Reportee

“High” Price