{"id":7436,"date":"2008-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"small-shareholders-of-the-uk-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2008\/small-shareholders-of-the-uk-unite.html","title":{"rendered":"Small shareholders of the UK, Unite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors Chronicle- Brian Peart, <span>Northern Rock<\/span>&#8216;s largest private shareholder, was looking forward to a quiet retirement after years of running his successful Durham-based building firm. His nest egg of 120,000 Northern Rock shares was his biggest investment. Now, estimating a personal loss of &pound;500,000, he is preparing for a new role &#8211; lead plaintiff for the shareholders in the planned legal action.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I hate this low attitude of the press that shareholders somehow don&#8217;t matter,&quot; he grumbles. &quot;Dick Turpin would only rob people two at a time, but the government&#8217;s robbed 180,000 people in one go.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Post-nationalisation, Northern Rock&#8217;s two largest shareholders &#8211; hedge fund activists <span>SRM<\/span> and <span>RAM<\/span> &#8211; have lambasted the rumoured government offer of 5p a share. Privately, they must be hoping that the small shareholders &#8211; which made up 25 per cent of the Rock&#8217;s register &#8211; will shame politicians into offering more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.investorschronicle.co.uk\/InvestmentGuides\/Shares\/article\/20080402\/80571cfa-f682-11dc-8f6a-0015171400aa\/Small-shareholders-of-the-UK-Unite.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors Chronicle- Brian Peart, Northern Rock&#8216;s largest private shareholder, was looking forward to a quiet retirement after years of running his successful Durham-based building firm. His nest egg of 120,000 Northern Rock shares was his biggest investment. Now, estimating a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}