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Duties
The President will oversee all club operations. This may
include requesting and posting stock specialist rosters from volunteers,
soliciting new Club partners, performing action as the liaison between the Club
and outside contacts as required, maintaining Club web sites, determining the
Club operations time table, assembling and submitting voting topics to the Club
partnership, validating voting tabulations, submitting broker instructions,
acting as moderators and any other action deemed to be in the best interest of
the Club.
The Vice-President, will assist the president in his duties, and act
as President, when the President is not able to function, or the position of
President become open, until a new President is elected.
The Secretary, will assist the Treasurer and perform, in the absence
of the Treasurer, the duties of the Treasurer.
The Treasurer will handle all financial aspects for the club at the
direction of the Club majority and the President or Vice-President. The
Treasurer will keep records of the Clubs current stock portfolio, Club partner
payments, valuations, disbursements and partners interest as
designated in the Partnership Agreement. The Treasurer will be responsible for
all accounting reports as required by section #4 herein and upload the monthly
valuation statements, year end valuation reports and necessary tax information
to the Club message thread.
Each succeeding year, the President will, in December, solicit nominations from
the general partnership for new officers, or if desired by partnership
majority, acknowledge that the current officers will continue for another
year.
Partnership Duties
All Club
partners will check in at least monthly and attempt to actively participate in
the Club operations through the message thread. Partners should assume role
responsibilities such as Research Chairman, Portfolio or Individual Stock
Specialist or Market News Specialist. Further, GIC partners are expected to
post constructive comments about Club Operations, legitimate investment
opportunities and to make regular and timely payments to the Treasurer
Financial Reports
A
monthly valuation statement will list all GIC assets, at cost and market
values, a listing of each partner's ownership values and liabilities of the
Club as of the last business day of the month. The year-end statement will
reflect distributions of dividends, interest, short and long term capital
gains, interest income and expenses for the year by total and by individual
partners' listing. It will detail the portfolio reflecting lots of all shares
bought & sold, their purchase price and date and the portfolios current
market value
Meetings
Meetings are
currently being held through a list service accessed through the Internet or
any e-mail service. The Club has an Internet web page available through web
browsers located at the address: http://www.gicghana.com. Partners will be
expected to respond prior to tabulation of votes submitted to the general
partnership monthly. Circumstances requiring absenteeism may be handled with an
assigned proxy vote. Majority vote will rule the Club in all cases. For our
purposes "Majority" will be based on those partners voting in any given round
and not the Club total partnership. Participation rules!
Voting Procedure
For Stock Purchases The President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary or
designated Partner, will post the applicable voting agenda for stock purchase
on or about the 1st of each month, closing out the voting process with the
agreement of the majority of the Club partnership. Once majority vote is
reached, the execution of said results will occur immediately after the
majority vote has been achieved. The stock with the most votes each month is
the chosen purchase. However, any partner may resubmit a favourite stock the
following month to the Club if they choose to do so. Heavy message thread
involvement discussing your choices and supporting data will go a long way
towards persuading others to see its potential value before voting. Recommended
Requirements for Posting A Stock for consideration. The following are
suggested parimeters:
Current P/E below 5
Yr Historical Avg P/E
Good dividend record.
Be a Growth Company: 5 Yrs of Rising EPS
Club Expenses
All Club expenses will be authorized by a majority vote of the active partners
of GIC. All partners of the Club will share all club expenses equally. (It is
expected that these expenses will be Brokers fees and taxes.
Payments and Investments
Each GIC partner will make a minimum US$1000.00 payment to Databank
payable to Ghana Investment Club. but recording date will be the date actually
received by the Databank. GIC allows for hardship circumstances when the
partnership is kept informed of the special situation. If it goes to a vote and
passes majority rule, then the individual will be cashed out according to the
Partnership Agreement
Club Objective
The Club objective initially was to reach a minimum of 100,000 GHCedis cash and
achieve asset value of 500,000 GHCedis in 5 years.:
(A) Reinvest All Earnings
(B) Invest In Growth Companies
(C) Diversify Our Portfolio
Monthly Schedule
The schedule which reflects our monthly routine (considerations given for
current events) is:
(a) From the 1st through the end of the month, partners may submit one or more
stock suggestions to the partnership and research and appropriate dialog will
take place.
(b) On the 1st of the following month the applicable voting agenda for the
stock purchase will be posted and voting will commence allowing for tabulation
until a majority is determined and execution of Club purchase decisions.
Partnership Limits 130. Resolution of Active partners may increase this number
by majority vote. Request for new partnership approval must be submitted to the
Club partnership for majority approval. Changes
To GIC's Agreement and Outline The Partnership Agreement and the Club Outline
can only be changed by a 2/3rds majority vote of the active partners. When
changes are made, all active GIC partners will have access to the new document
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