Presumably, Simon Henry, chief financial officer at Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB), is no slouch with numbers. Chances are then he would have liked the look of the £1.27m he generated from the sale of 50,000 of his shares in the Anglo-Dutch oil & gas major. The sale earlier this month still leaves Mr Henry with 308,364 shares in the group, worth around £7.86m at current prices. Moreover, shareholders recently received a boost when Shell announced that it had committed itself to spending over $30bn (£17.7bn) buying back its shares and handing out higher dividends over the next two years.
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Shell, along with drillers both great and small, will be looking on with interest at the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence. Regardless of the uncertainties arising from that issue for the North Sea tax regime, some fiscal reforms are going to be needed to ensure the long-term viability of UK offshore. For its part, Shell has been particularly bullish on its investment plans for the UK continental shelf, but talk is cheap this side of the vote.
| Buys | |||||||
| Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
| Alba Mineral Resources * | George Frangeskides (ch) | 04 Aug 14 | 2,000,000 | 0.5 | 10,000 | 2,000,000 | 0.509 |
| AstraZeneca | Leif Johansson (ch) | 01 Aug 14 | 6,000 | 5,858.36 | 351,502 | 39,009 | 0.003 |
| AstraZeneca | John Varley | 31 Jul 14 | 3,500 | 4,370 | 152,950 | 13,000 | 0.001 |
| AstraZeneca | Baroness Vadera | 31 Jul 14 | 3,500 | 4,328 | 151,480 | 6,500 | <0.001 |
| AstraZeneca | Prof Genevieve Berger | 31 Jul 14 | 300 | 4,324 | 12,972 | 2,090 | <0.001 |
| AstraZeneca | Dr B Burlington | 01 Aug 14 | 500 | 4,304.91 | 21,525 | 2,553 | <0.001 |
| Capital & Counties Properties | S Das (fd) | 01 Aug 14 | 15,548 | 321.5739 | 49,998 | 252,018 | 0.030 |
| Capital & Counties Properties | ID Hawksworth (ce) | 01 Aug 14 | 15,000 | 322.65 | 48,398 | 770,604 | 0.092 |
| Capital & Counties Properties | G Yardley | 01 Aug 14 | 15,000 | 322.65 | 48,398 | 442,972 | 0.053 |
| Compass | Paul Walsh (ch) | 06 Aug 14 | 2,000 | 956 | 19,120 | 11,411 | <0.001 |
| Development Securities | Sarah Bates | 06 Aug 14 | 5,000 | 209.18 | 10,459 | 40,000 | 0.032 |
| Development Securities | Sarah Bates | 06 Aug 14 | 5,000 | 208.99 | 10,450 | 35,000 | 0.028 |
| Development Securities | Sarah Bates | 06 Aug 14 | 5,000 | 208.68 | 10,434 | 45,000 | 0.036 |
| e2v technologies | Stephen Blair (ce) | 04 Aug 14 | 27,000 | 158 | 42,660 | 99,338 | 0.046 |
| e2v technologies | Kevin Dangerfield | 04 Aug 14 | 20,000 | 155 | 31,000 | 25,000 | 0.012 |
| Fenner | Richard Perry (fd) | 06 Aug 14 | 5,000 | 323.874 | 16,194 | 651,701 | 0.336 |
| Fenner ♥ | Richard Perry (fd) | 05 Aug 14 | 10,000 | 335.6084 | 33,561 | 646,701 | 0.333 |
| Fidessa | John Hamer (ch) | 04 Aug 14 | 989 | 2,087 | 20,640 | 79,495 | 0.209 |
| Greencore | Gary Kennedy (ch) | 05 Aug 14 | 10,000 | 259 | 25,900 | 47,389 | 0.012 |
| Halfords | Helen Jones | 06 Aug 14 | 3,000 | 468.6 | 14,058 | 3,000 | 0.002 |
| Inchcape | John Langston | 04 Aug 14 | 266 | 640.5 | 1,704 | 1,063 | <0.001 |
| Inchcape | Kanwarpal Singh Bindra | 04 Aug 14 | 502 | 640.5 | 3,215 | 2,004 | <0.001 |
| Inchcape | Alison Cooper | 04 Aug 14 | 225 | 640.5 | 1,441 | 3,399 | <0.001 |
| Inchcape | Nigel Northridge | 04 Aug 14 | 266 | 640.5 | 1,704 | 26,063 | 0.006 |
| Inchcape | Till Vestring | 04 Aug 14 | 340 | 640.5 | 2,178 | 31,358 | 0.007 |
| Intu Properties | John Whittaker | 04 Aug 14 | 4,000 | 322.39 | 12,896 | 294,681,452 | 22.472 |
| Kibo Mining * | Noel O'Keeffe | 06 Aug 14 | 978,286 | 1.75 | 17,120 | 1,693,151 | 0.824 |
| Kibo Mining * | Christian Schaffalitzky (ch) | 06 Aug 14 | 81,179 | 1.75 | 1,421 | 1,797,089 | 0.875 |
| Kibo Mining * | Andreas Lianos (cfo) | 06 Aug 14 | 1,876,695 | 1.75 | 32,842 | 4,876,695 | 2.374 |
| Kibo Mining * | Louis Coetzee (ce) | 06 Aug 14 | 1,533,381 | 1.75 | 26,834 | 7,133,284 | 3.472 |
| Kibo Mining * | Wenzel Kerremans | 06 Aug 14 | 81,179 | 1.75 | 1,421 | 113,488 | 0.055 |
| Kibo Mining * | Tinus Maree | 06 Aug 14 | 81,179 | 1.75 | 1,421 | 2,671,447 | 1.300 |
| Laird | Jack Boyer | 31 Jul 14 | 5,000 | 283.8 | 14,190 | 10,000 | 0.004 |
| LSL Property Services | Bill Shannon | 05 Aug 14 | 10,000 | 376 | 37,600 | 10,000 | 0.010 |
| Moneysupermarket.com | Robin Klein | 01 Aug 14 | 50,000 | 179.58 | 89,790 | 100,000 | 0.018 |
| Next Fifteen Communications | Richard Eyre (ch) | 05 Aug 14 | 17,304 | 115 | 19,900 | 139,381 | 0.229 |
| Poundland | Darren Shapland (ch) | 04 Aug 14 | 20,000 | 323 | 64,600 | 20,000 | 0.008 |
| Renold | B T Tenner (fd) | 01 Aug 14 | 16,306 | 59.5399 | 9,709 | 424,702 | 0.190 |
| Rotork | Gary Bullard | 05 Aug 14 | 700 | 2,772 | 19,404 | 3,499 | 0.004 |
| Royal Dutch Shell † | Patricia Woertz | 01 Aug 14 | 3,000 | 2,540.81 | 76,224 | 3,000 | <0.001 |
| Royal Mail | Donald Brydon (ch) | 31 Jul 14 | 12,500 | 420.6 | 52,575 | 15,530 | 0.002 |
| Sage Group (The) | Donald Brydon (ch) | 06 Aug 14 | 15,000 | 371.696 | 55,754 | 68,024 | 0.006 |
| Scapa | James Wallace (ch) | 05 Aug 14 | 10,000 | 128.62 | 12,862 | 850,000 | 0.578 |
| St Modwen Properties | Bill Shannon (ch) | 01 Aug 14 | 5,000 | 367.2 | 18,360 | 70,000 | 0.032 |
| St Modwen Properties | Bill Shannon (ch) | 01 Aug 14 | 5,000 | 363.879 | 18,194 | 75,000 | 0.034 |
| Tate & Lyle | Sir Peter Gershon (ch) | 31 Jul 14 | 10,000 | 638 | 63,800 | 92,080 | 0.020 |
| Tate & Lyle ♥ | Javed Ahmed (ce) | 31 Jul 14 | 20,000 | 624 | 124,800 | 1,224,457 | 0.262 |
| Telecity | Michael Tobin (ce) | 06 Aug 14 | 2,500 | 752.2 | 18,805 | 695,110 | 0.343 |
| Telford Homes | James Furlong | 05 Aug 14 | 12,000 | 270 | 32,400 | 1,301,860 | 2.185 |
| TyraTech Inc * | Alan Reade (ch) | 31 Jul 14 | 214,298 | 7 | 15,001 | 12,700,656 | 4.979 |
| TyraTech Inc * | Bruno Jactel (ce) | 31 Jul 14 | 142,857 | 7 | 10,000 | 2,002,424 | 0.785 |
| TyraTech Inc * | Barry Riley | 31 Jul 14 | 142,857 | 7 | 10,000 | 3,198,413 | 1.254 |
| TyraTech Inc* | James Hills | 31 Jul 14 | 142,857 | 7 | 10,000 | 1,190,757 | 0.467 |
| Unilever † | Dr. BE Grote | 04 Aug 14 | 500 | 2,543.32 | 12,717 | 6,200 | <0.001 |
| Sells | |||||||
| Company | Director | Date | No of shares | Price (p) | Value (£) | Holding (shares) | Holding (%) |
| Carpetright | Martin Harris | 31 Jul 14 | 90,000 | 525 | 472,500 | 11,284,457 | 16.648 |
| Mulberry | Roger Mather (fd) | 31 Jul 14 | 30,000 | 735 | 220,500 | 183,687 | 0.306 |
| Rolls-Royce Holdings | James Guyette | 04 Aug 14 | 100,000 | 1,039.85 | 1,039,850 | 392,898 | 0.021 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | Simon Henry (cfo) | 04 Aug 14 | 30,000 | 2,551.50 | 765,450 | 164,182 | 0.007 |
| Royal Dutch Shell | Simon Henry (cfo) | 04 Aug 14 | 20,000 | 2,547.10 | 509,420 | 144,182 | 0.006 |
| * placing/tender/open offer ♥ spouse/connected party † depositary receipts | |||||||
