Victorian Plumbing CEO sells £2.7 million sharesBig Technologies CEO ups stake againYouGov CFO sells £513,446 sharesMark Radcliffe, CEO at online specialist bathroom retailer Victorian Plumbing (VIC:AIM) has sold 2,700,000 shares at 100p for a total value of £2.7 million on 27 August 'to help satisfy institutional demand' for ordinary shares.Over the past year, Victorian Plumbing shares...

Vistry CEO snaps up nearly £100,000 sharesTen Lifestyle CEO Alex Cheatle sellsBig Technologies CEO Sara Murray builds up stakeGreg Fitzgerald CEO of housebuilder Vistry (VTY) has bought 10,525 shares at 943p for a total value of £99,247 on 22 January.Fitzgerald?s move could be seen by investors as 'smart' after its Countryside Partnerships subsidiary was recently chosen as the preferred...

Insurance non-exec buys sharesBig Technologies sets up employees trustMidwich director buys after strong resultsMohit Joshi, a non-executive director at UK insurer Aviva (AV.), bought 59,300 shares at 409p on 12 October for a total value of £242,537.The deal comes after several Aviva employees bought shares over the past few weeks, including chairman George Culmer and chief executive Amanda...

Finally, everyone is talking about UK stocks. The spotlight is back on the country after the UK's FTSE 100 was one of the few major indices globally to record positive returns in 2022 and this year it has broken through the 8,000 level and hit a new record high. Hopefully, this will lead to the return of foreign investors who have shunned the UK since the Brexit vote in 2016.Investors can...

After a flurry of trades by directors in company shares during 2021, the new year has seen activity calm down considerably. Only three companies have published director trades in the first week of 2022, according to analysis by Shares.The biggest in monetary terms is a £75,000 purchase of Atome Energy (ATOM:AIM) stock by non-executive director Mary-Rose de Valladares. The green hydrogen group...

In the first of a two-part series Shares talks to a range of fund managers about the stocks they like for 2022. Covering both UK and overseas markets, the experts offer a range of ideas spanning technology and banking to leisure and automotive sectors.The second part of the series (to be published on 23 December) will reveal a selection of fund managers' biggest disappointments for 2021 and...

Premium carbonated mixers marvel Fevertree Drinks (FEVR:AIM) fizzes 10.2% higher to £38.08 on news that full year profit 'will be comfortably ahead of expectations' following a palate-pleasing first half showing.After a relatively cautious statement in March, where the usual upgrades weren't forthcoming, the posh tonic water-to-ginger beer purveyor is back in business, issuing no less than a...