Meeting:

Monthly Meeting - December 2006

 

Held at:

The Brocklebank, Crewe

Date:

13th December 2006

 

 

Time:

17:15 – 18:35

Prepared by

Richard W

 

Chairperson:

Adrian T

 

Present:

Adrian T

Chris B

Kit P

Richard W

 

 

 

 

 

Apologies:

Dave G

Simon B

 

 

Chairman’s Acceptance of Minutes

 


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Signature

Date

 

 

 

1           NEXT MEETING

To be decided via email..

2           Minutes of previous meeting

Accepted.

3           ACTIONS FROM PREVIOUS MEETING

3.1          Actions Closed Since Last Meeting

Ref.

Description & Progress

Status

RW/1115/02

Purchase appropriate amount of Lookers shares

COMPLETE

RW/1115/03

Purchase £2000 of Star Energy shares

COMPLETE

CB/1115/06

Add the £3.30 for Dave’s magazine to the expenses

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:  Further new records for asset value (>62k) and profit (>29k).  Profit of £1k for month was driven largely by >20% rises in Character Group and First Choice.

Unit value up from 753.448 to 765.912.  We have just over £4.5k available as non-mechanical cash with an additional £9.2k in cash alternative investment trusts. 

Club assets are at a new record high of £62.4k with profits too at a new record high of £29.4k.

4.2          Matters Arising From Report

Awaiting set up of new current account to avoid the charges now being imposed by HBOS. Chris to ensure that all members bring necessary documentation to next meeting.

5           PORTFOlio Management

5.1          Monthly Money Management Checks

As usual, the Fundamental portfolio is still showing as “too low” with 12.4% held in this portfolio against strategic minimum of 25%.

The Fundamental portfolio is also too concentrated with still only 3 holdings in it, the issue being that two of these three exceed the strategic maximum weighting of 30% in any one stock within this portfolio.

The two investment trust alternative cash holdings are both approaching the 10% limit also.

More fundamental buy proposals are encouraged.

5.2          Mechanical Portfolio

The portfolio rose by 2.8% during the past month. This compares to a market fall of 0.2%.

The main movers were Character Group (+24%), First Choice (+21%), Metnor (+10%), Jacques Vert (-7%), Laura Ashley (-7%) & John David (-6%)

New highs were set by McAlpine, Metnor, First Choice, Character Group, Cable & Wireless and John David.

McAlpine and Metnor remain above their stop loss levels (currently 514.55p and 319.53p respectively) and will only be sold if they fall below it.

No companies are due to be sold this month but we continue to have a vacancy in the value side and there continues to be no valid replacement candidates. No progress has been made on devising new ‘relaxed’ criteria to enable this spot 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

McAlpine (Alfred)

Value

Oct-06

347.97

521.96

52.20

566.75

Yes

514.55

Metnor Group

Growth

Nov-06

219.83

329.75

32.97

352.50

Yes

319.53

First Choice Holidays

Value

Jan-07

233.99

350.99

35.10

279.25

No

350.99

Interior Services Group

Value

Feb-07

259.70

389.55

38.96

302.50

No

389.55

BETonSPORTS

Growth

Mar-07

159.44

239.16

23.92

171.00

No

239.16

Character Group

Growth

May 07

59.50

89.25

8.93

111.00

Yes

102.08

Ashley (Laura)

Growth

May 07

22.50

33.75

3.38

27.25

No

33.75

Cable & Wireless

Value

Jun-07

110.39

165.59

16.56

164.00

No

165.59

John David Group

Value

Jun-07

254.49

381.74

38.17

332.75

No

381.74

Jacques Vert

Growth

Aug-07

18.00

27.00

2.70

22.00

No

27.00

Lookers

Growth

Nov-07

167.72

251.58

25.16

167.00