Shareholder Services
Artisan has approximately 2,800 shareholders, in their own name, together with shareholders with holdings in nominee accounts. The largest shareholder is Aspen Finance Limited with 9,972,121 Ordinary shares of 1p each representing 74.75% as at 12 April 2021. Other Directors hold a total of 1,200 Ordinary shares of 1p each representing 0.009% of the issued share capital. Geoff Melamet is a director of Aspen Finance Limited.
Artisan (UK) plc currently holds 14,592 Ordinary shares of 1p as treasury stock. Treasury stock are non-voting shares. There is no other non-voting stock. The Directors therefore control 74.84% of the voting stock.
The Board wishes to keep shareholders aware of events happening in Artisan and they are encouraged to use this web site.
If a shareholder wishes to know more about the Company and what it is doing, and you cannot find the answer on this site, then you are welcome to e-mail or, if you prefer, write in with your questions. Please state your name, reply address, and preferably shareholding, on your question. The Directors cannot undertake to be always available to answer telephone calls, but will endeavour to respond to shareholders on a timely basis.
What will happen to your question? Questions will generally be referred to an executive director. Your question will be acknowledged and we will endeavour to reply within 10 days, but this is not always possible. Please follow up if your question remains unanswered especially if sent by email as there are sometimes difficulties with filters or successfully sending a reply.
Naturally, certain topics will attract more than one similar question, therefore a frequently asked questions page (FAQ's) is included on the site. Please refer to this before asking your question, as the answer may already have been published in response to another shareholder. This page is updated monthly, although some “evergreen” questions may be left on the site.
Warning to Shareholders
In recent years many companies have become aware that their shareholders have received unsolicited phone calls or correspondence concerning investment matters. These are typically from overseas based 'brokers' who target UK shareholders offering to sell them what often turn out to be worthless or high risk shares in US or UK investments. They can be very persistent and extremely persuasive and a 2006 survey by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has reported that the average amount lost by investors is around £20,000. There are also schemes which entice shareholders by offering them unexpectedly high values for their shareholdings. It is not just the novice investor that has been duped in this way; many of the victims had been successfully investing for several years. Shareholders are advised to be very wary of any unsolicited advice, offers to buy shares at a discount or offers of free reports into the company. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) summarises its advice at the following link;
http://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/scams
If you receive any unsolicited investment advice:-
- Make sure you get the correct name of the person and organisation.
- Check that they are properly authorised by the FCA before getting involved. You can check at http://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/protect-yourself.
- The FCA also maintains on its website a list of unauthorised firms who are targeting, or have targeted, UK investors and any approach from such organisations should be reported to the FCA so that this list can be kept up to date and any other appropriate action can be considered. Please see, http://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/protect-yourself/unauthorised-firms.
- If you deal with an unauthorised firm, you would not be eligible to receive payment under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. The FCA can be contacted as described on their website, http://www.fca.org.uk/site-info/contact
- Inform our registrar's Compliance Department on 0371 664 0300 or [email protected]
Details of any sharedealing facilities that the Company endorses will be included in company mailings.
More detailed information on this or similar activity can be found on the FCA website http://www.fca.org.uk/.
