Minutes of Roborough Investment Club Meeting
#23 – 13th March 2001

Attendees: Andrew Watkins, Dave Johnston, Geoff Floyd, Andy Davies, Cyril Bouhallier, Alan Martin, Les Watson, Chris Bailey, Martin Collinge, Lawrence Watson

Apologies: Rick Haggitt, Phil Ainsley

Absent: Franz Fuchs, Allan Proudfoot, Stephen Andrew, Wez Davey

Agenda

1) Review Minutes of previous meeting

The previous minutes were accepted, the only descrepency was the date mentioned in the meeting was February 13th and in fact it was February 6th.

2) Review actions

No actions were outstanding

3) Review Treasurers Report

RIC Treasurers Report - Mar 2001

Shares purchase/sales this month

Sold Parthus Technology - £515.62 realising a loss of £505.37

Purchased 574 TT Group shares for 1016.91

Purchased 322 Ferraris shares for 1018.43

Purchased 196 GUS shares for 1015.61

Dividends Received

None

Asset Summary

Name of Company

No shares

Average price

Total Cost

Selling price

Net selling value

Profit or loss to date

Change during month

Barclays

31

1676.13

519.60

2141.00

651.71

132.11

-12.09

Boots

170

162.78

1015.74

624.00

1048.80

33.06

39.10

DICOM

237

429.17

1017.14

480.00

1125.60

108.46

-237.00

Ferraris

321

317.27

1018.43

265.00

838.65

-179.78

-179.78

GUS

196

518.17

1015.61

528.50

1023.86

8.25

8.25

ICI

90

571.37

514.23

512.00

448.80

-65.43

49.32

Prudential

53

979.40

519.08

926.00

478.78

-40.30

-55.12

Tesco

594

257.93

1532.13

259.50

1529.43

-2.70

109.89

365 Corp

242

212.99

515.44

31.00

63.02

-452.42

-14.52

TT Group

571

178.09

1016.91

155.00

873.05

-143.86

-143.86

8684.31

8081.70

-602.61

-435.81

Unit price fell from 156 to 146.

 

4) Review of current holdings

Each "share buddy" at the meeting gave a brief update about his share.

Notes

Buddy

Share

Recommendation

BOOT

Chris Bailey

No information

HOLD

DCM

Geoff Floyd

No information

HOLD

ICI

Andrew Watkins

Bumpy month - reports from US about a depressed chemical market

HOLD

FER

Andrew Watkins

 

HOLD

GUS

Les Watson

 

HOLD

TSCO

Alan Worroll

No new information

HOLD

TSF

Wez Davey

Price so low it is hardly worth selling. There were 2million shares traded today and so somebody wants them.

HOLD

 ACTION 23.1: Les W to check if Ferraris has broken out of band – Killed (we sold them during the month)

5) Review Investment proposals

No new proposals made

6) AOB

1) Cyril proposed a methodology for increased group member participation based on a "competition" investment of £1 per month, in which the person who recommended the best performing share "won" the pot of money which was re-invested into units.

An action was given to vote via email on the subject:

ACTION 23.2: CB to carry out an email vote on "competition" investment of £1.

2) Stop-loss setting

It was decided to set a 15% stop-loss for blue-chip companies and 20% for others.

3) During the month, Kevin Forrest, Alan Worroll and Richard Albon have resigned from the club. Kevin has been paid, baed on March unit value, the others will be paid based on April unit value. Lawrence Watson has joined the club. This brings the number of people in the club to 16.

7) Agenda for next meeting

Next Meeting: 10th April 2001