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Bearer and Registered Shares - the Differences
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Most shareholders regard the company as a place in which they can invest their money and expect a return in the form of a dividend at the end of the day. They provide the capital while the power to run the company is delegated to directors. Basically there are two types of investor, those looking for growth and those looking for income, and usually shares provide a mixture of the two. By first looking the nature of the share the Companies Act 1985 defines it as an item of personal property transferable in the manner provided by the company's articles1. It is stated that in fact a share is a chose in action, one of those property interests which do not give the owner the right to posses anything tangible2. Furthermore, in the case of Borland's Trustee v Steel Brothers & Co Ltd3, Farwell J, described the share as the...
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