Stock Market Seminars
Run by shareholders associations
Shareholders associations are organisations, usually run by volunteers, who run stock market seminars and represent concerned shareholders in a number of capacities, including help with investing and providing the stock market basics.
An example is to provide shareholders advice regarding voting at company annual general meetings and acting as shareholder activists. (AGMs).
They encourage members and others to nominate them as proxy at AGMs to maximise shareholders vote so that the views of mum-and-dad shareholders can have more clout. The greater the number of proxies held by the association means the greater notice company directors take.
Representatives of the association attend AGMs and report back to members. These reports provide valuable insights as to how company executives treat shareholders. This can vary from downright offhandedness to maximum consideration.
Examples of shareholders' associations include ...
As well as campaigning to protect shareholders rights, these associations provide an important educational role by organising seminars and talks or a stock market course for their members that provide help with investing.
Members pay an annual fee to obtain membership. Depending on your circumstances, the fee may be tax deductible. I am a member of a shareholders association, and this is something you might also consider.
As mentioned elsewhere in this website, this could depend on what your current annual investment expenses amount to as a percentage of your overall investment portfolio. I keep this between 0.5% and 2% depending on my portfolio size.
Other bodies such as stock exchanges commonly offer a stock market tutorial to encourage investors to become more informed with stock market strategies.
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