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The Shareholder Season of Squirrels and Scapegoats

A TEA Times deep-dive into Savvy vs Sid, RemCo scapegoats and the UK AGM Tracker, exploring how cute campaigns and clever engagement formats can either sharpen or dilute real shareholder power.

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☕️ TEA with Sheryl C ⚡ The Engagement Appeal

☕️ TEA with Sheryl C ⚡ The Engagement Appeal

Smashing dusty IR playbooks & decoding boardroom drama to spark engagement between companies and nextgen investors. Backed by 500+ campaigns. 20+ years. PracticaliTEAs of activism, AGMs, and M&A spilled. Exited entrepreneur & governance nerd at it again.

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☕️ TEA Times Newsletter: AGM Season, Sid's at Your Meeting, #NextGenFD & the Cash ISA Debate

May 11, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

The Shareholder Season of Squirrels and Scapegoats

Apr 27 • Sheryl Cuisia

☕️Breakfast TEA Invitation: Thursday 31 July from 8am in London and Online

Jul 24, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

From Calm Chairs to Macho Activists — AGM Season Has Changed (And What Dogs Reveal)

Mar 30 • Sheryl Cuisia

Time for Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust Shareholders to Determine the Trust's Future. Again.

Jan 11 • Sheryl Cuisia

Podcasts

☕️ TEA with Sheryl C ⚡ The Engagement Appeal Podcast

TEA Cup Honours: BT Chair’s Blueprint for AGM Trust

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Savvy the Squirrel vs Sid: Why the UK Still Doesn’t Get Retail Investors

A first‑hand take on the “Invest for the Future” launch, looking at why Savvy the Squirrel can’t fix the deeper issues of UK market structure, policy…

Apr 26 • Sheryl Cuisia

Stop Spanking the RemCo Chair: Why Proxy Advisers Often Target the Wrong Person on Pay

Proxy advisers have made “vote against the remuneration committee chair” a standard sanction in pay disputes. That may look like accountability, but too…

Apr 26 • Sheryl Cuisia

Shelling Out Conviction — Spilling AGM Secrets with TEA Cups & Mugs

How power operates in modern AGMs — using Shell’s 2025 meeting to reveal the gap between voting power and agenda-setting influence, alongside the TEA…

Apr 7

TEA tracks forthcoming annual general meetings. Access the latest TEA AGM Tracker via the dashboard below, which has been updated with AGM announcements…

Apr 6 • Sheryl Cuisia

🏆 TEA Cup Honours Shell’s “Most Improved” AGM

A high-tension 2025 AGM defined not by disorder, but by control — where shareholder conviction met a composed Board, and confrontation was contained…

Apr 6 • Sheryl Cuisia

The 13% That Set the Agenda at Shell's 2025 AGM

A small minority of Shell investors backed Resolution 22—but their questions dominated the meeting. What does that say about how AGMs really work?

Apr 5 • Sheryl Cuisia

From Calm Chairs to Macho Activists — AGM Season Has Changed (And What Dogs Reveal)

Good governance, aggressive activism, and undying loyalty — three stories, one question: what kind of behaviour are we rewarding?

Mar 30 • Sheryl Cuisia

The Viral Dog Video That Holds a Mirror to Humanity

Quick Fact Note: The March 2026 footage from Changchun, Jilin, is real—seven local village dogs (Corgi, German Shepherd, Goldens, Labs, etc.) roamed a…

Mar 30 • Sheryl Cuisia

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TEA Cup Honours: BT Chair’s Blueprint for AGM Trust

How Adam Crozier’s calm, listening‑oriented stewardship is redefining what a good AGM looks like — for legacy investors and next‑generation owners…

Mar 28 • Sheryl Cuisia

Recent posts

Savvy the Squirrel vs Sid: Why the UK Still Doesn’t Get Retail Investors

A first‑hand take on the “Invest for the Future” launch, looking at why Savvy the Squirrel can’t fix the deeper issues of UK market structure, policy…

Apr 26 • Sheryl Cuisia

Stop Spanking the RemCo Chair: Why Proxy Advisers Often Target the Wrong Person on Pay

Proxy advisers have made “vote against the remuneration committee chair” a standard sanction in pay disputes. That may look like accountability, but too…

Apr 26 • Sheryl Cuisia

TEA tracks forthcoming annual general meetings. Access the latest TEA AGM Tracker via the dashboard below, which has been updated with AGM announcements…

Apr 6 • Sheryl Cuisia

Shelling Out Conviction — Spilling AGM Secrets with TEA Cups & Mugs

How power operates in modern AGMs — using Shell’s 2025 meeting to reveal the gap between voting power and agenda-setting influence, alongside the TEA…

Apr 7

London Stock Exchange

Savvy the Squirrel vs Sid: Why the UK Still Doesn’t Get Retail Investors

A first‑hand take on the “Invest for the Future” launch, looking at why Savvy the Squirrel can’t fix the deeper issues of UK market structure, policy…

Apr 26 • Sheryl Cuisia

Live and Let Buy: The City’s Fight to Win Back Investors

A review of the opening speeches at LSEG’s Annual Investment Funds Conference 2025 — where Katya Gorbatiouk, Dame Julia Hoggett and Sir Douglas Flint…

Oct 9, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

A Clash of Narratives: London Calling or Panic on the Streets of London?

My punk-infused review of the London Stock Exchange's 27 August 2025 webinar, contrasting bullish optimism with market reality: delistings, IPO drought…

Sep 3, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

Rebuilding Trust and Relevance: My Questions for the London Stock Exchange & LSEG

As a responsible corporate citizen and shareholder in over 1,400 UK-listed companies, I pose key questions to the London Stock Exchange on governance…

Aug 12, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

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Quick Hi! Stay Tuned for My Questions to the London Stock Exchange and LSEG

My follow-up will include a detailed set of questions to LSE and LSEG centred on: governance & engagement, effectiveness, fairness, inclusion …

Aug 12, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

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TEA Cup Honours

🏆 TEA Cup Honours Shell’s “Most Improved” AGM

A high-tension 2025 AGM defined not by disorder, but by control — where shareholder conviction met a composed Board, and confrontation was contained…

Apr 6 • Sheryl Cuisia

0:52

TEA Cup Honours: BT Chair’s Blueprint for AGM Trust

How Adam Crozier’s calm, listening‑oriented stewardship is redefining what a good AGM looks like — for legacy investors and next‑generation owners…

Mar 28 • Sheryl Cuisia

☕️ TEA Cup Honours: Great British Businesses Leading on Governance and AGMs

News on the most impactful shareholder engagement—delivered in a 5-minute read. ✨Governance 'legends' edition✨

May 6, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

🏆 TEA Cup Honours: Dame Anita Frew - Governance with Purpose, Presence, and People-First Power

From boardroom EQ to STEM-fuelled Gen Z buzz, Rolls-Royce’s Chair is rewriting the rulebook—with calm power and actual presence.

May 6, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

Saba Saga

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Macho Activism Comes to Mayfair

Saba Capital’s campaign at Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust reveals a shift from engagement-led activism to coercive control battles. Shareholders…

Mar 27 • Sheryl Cuisia

Time for Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust Shareholders to Determine the Trust's Future. Again.

Only 11 months ago Saba Capital requisitioned a general meeting to remove the Board of EWIT. On 20 January 2026, shareholders will have their say again…

Jan 11 • Sheryl Cuisia

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Shareholder Activism 007, Crowding Out Dissent, and Values vs Virtue Signals

Trusts. Investment trusts. That's a focus of this TEA Times. With the news fraught with political tensions and market gloom, we balance seriousness with…

Oct 5, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

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Discounts Aren’t Forever: Saba’s Latest Mission in the UK Trust Shake-Up

The Saba Saga rolls on: after losing votes but jolting UK investment trusts awake, the activist agent is back with a vengeance — this time armed with a…

Oct 4, 2025

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💸 The Saba Saga: Herald’s £748k Bill and the Power of Stickiness

Herald Investment Trust reveals it spent £748k fending off Saba Capital. Here’s my assessment, how it compares to past battles, and what all UK-listed…

Jul 23, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

Videos

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NEDflix: How one non-executive director is helping shape the future of investing and empowering Gen Z

Episode 1 – Meet Gillian Elcock, a FTSE non-executive director with a long-standing commitment to helping younger generations break into finance and…

Jul 19, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

1:35

Pearson plc Promise

FTSE 100 education company Pearson flexes serious tech creds via their board directors, some of whom, like CEO Omar Abbosh aka will.i.am’s podcast…

Jun 16, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

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Governance on the Dance Floor: Informa plc’s Jam-Packed 2024 AGM in London

Jun 16, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

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The People’s Bank? Lloyds 2025 AGM Reaffirms Scale Can Serve the Many

Wild horses couldn’t drag Lloyds away from its commitment to people, planet and prosperity.

Jun 15, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

Doorstop Interviews

4:01

NEDflix: How one non-executive director is helping shape the future of investing and empowering Gen Z

Episode 1 – Meet Gillian Elcock, a FTSE non-executive director with a long-standing commitment to helping younger generations break into finance and…

Jul 19, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

Spotlight on #NextGenFD Jeremy Sturgess-Smith and Ananda Pharma plc

How a Gen Zennial finance director is making biotech and investing make sense for the TikTok generation.

May 11, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

4:34

Maple Gold, Merger & Shareholder Engagement, Plus: Canucks, Carney and Competing Stores of Value

I packed quite a lot in my 4.5 minute chat with the Senior VP of Corporate Development & Investor Relations of TSX-listed Calibre Mining at the Master…

Apr 14, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

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Metals Exploration's All-Hands-on-the-Pump Approach Delivers Results

Meet and greet with Tim Livesey, Non-Executive Director of UK-quoted Metals Exploration plc. Talking performance, responsibility, and good governance.

Apr 13, 2025 • Sheryl Cuisia

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