Why I
Exist.
Most financial commentary is not analysis.
It is opinion dressed in professional language, published at volume, and treated as insight because the person producing it has a title, a following, or a media relationship. It circulates. It is cited. It shapes decisions. And much of it has never been tested against a primary source, a regulatory framework, or the basic question: what would I need to show to prove this wrong?
Nobody is doing
this properly.
This is not a niche problem. It runs from the retail forum to the institutional research note. It shows up in the RNS that contradicts itself between paragraphs. In the promotional post that disappears ninety minutes after being published. In the corporate adviser who does not respond to six binary questions about his own rulebook obligations. In the financial journalist who publishes the press release and moves on.
The people who should be asking the questions — corporate advisers, compliance functions, regulated platforms — have relationships that make the questions inconvenient. And inconvenient questions, in my experience, do not ask themselves.
That is not a boast. It is a problem with a cost, and the cost is paid by people who trusted the thing they were handed.
What properly
looks like.
It starts with primary sources. Not summaries of summaries. The filing, the register entry, the Companies House record, the dated social media post, the email exchange. The thing that either says what it says or it doesn’t.
It applies the actual regulatory framework — UK MAR, FSMA, FCA rules, exchange obligations — not a paraphrase of it. If a communication appears to breach Article 12 of the Market Abuse Regulation, the question is not whether it looks bad. The question is whether the elements of the offence are present on the evidence.
It follows the structure. If a company has two legal entities with near-identical names and one director connecting them, that is not an administrative curiosity. That is a question that requires an answer, and the answer either resolves the concern or it doesn’t.
It goes to the parties. Every investigation published includes written questions sent to every material party, with documented deadlines, before anything reaches the public. Their responses, and their silences, are part of the evidence.
If this work were submitted to a regulator, it would not embarrass itself. That is the standard applied before publication, because in several cases, it has been submitted to a regulator.
The FCA does not want theatre. Neither do I.
This is forensic investigation. It is slow, evidential, and uncomfortable for the people on the wrong side of it. It is not a takedown. It is a record.
The same gap. Different asset.
Different institution. Every time.
Retail investors in UK listed companies are routinely handed promotional material through channels that are not regulated for promotion, by parties who are not authorised to promote, containing claims that contradict the company’s own filings. The architecture of plausible deniability has become sufficiently sophisticated that most of it passes without consequence.
Why I
exist.
Because the gap between what is published and what is true is not theoretical. It is documented, repeatable, and largely unaddressed.
Because retail investors in UK listed companies are routinely handed promotional material through channels that are not regulated for promotion, by parties who are not authorised to promote, containing claims that contradict the company’s own filings. And the architecture of plausible deniability has become sufficiently sophisticated that most of it passes without consequence.
Because the people who should be asking the questions — corporate advisers, compliance functions, regulated platforms — have relationships that make the questions inconvenient. And inconvenient questions, in my experience, do not ask themselves.
Because I am not in those relationships. I do not have a retainer from the company I am investigating. I do not have a brokerage arrangement with the platform distributing its shares. I do not need a comment from the press office. I have the filings, the timestamps, the deleted posts, and the non-responses. That is enough to work with.
This is not activism. It is not short-selling research dressed as public interest. It is forensic investigation of publicly available evidence, applied to questions that have a yes-or-no answer, published with the sources attached so you can check the work yourself.
someone should.
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