Join today and have your say! It’s FREE!

Become a member today, It's free!

We will not release or resell your information to third parties without your permission.
Please Try Again
{{ error }}
By providing my email, I consent to receiving investment related electronic messages from Stockhouse.

or

Sign In

Please Try Again
{{ error }}
Password Hint : {{passwordHint}}
Forgot Password?

or

Please Try Again {{ error }}

Send my password

SUCCESS
An email was sent with password retrieval instructions. Please go to the link in the email message to retrieve your password.

Become a member today, It's free!

We will not release or resell your information to third parties without your permission.
Quote  |  Bullboard  |  News  |  Opinion  |  Profile  |  Peers  |  Filings  |  Financials  |  Options  |  Price History  |  Ratios  |  Ownership  |  Insiders  |  Valuation

First Trust Dow Jones Global Select Dividend Ix Fd V.FGD


Primary Symbol: FGD

The investment seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield before the funds fees and expenses of an equity index called the Dow Jones Global Select Dividend IndexSM. The fund will normally invest at least 90% of its net assets including investment borrowings in the common stocks and depositary receipts that comprise the index. The index is an indicated annual dividend yield weighted index of 100 stocks selected from the developedmarket portion of the Dow Jones World IndexSM. The fund will normally invest at least 90% of its net assets (including investment borrowings) in the common stocks and depositary receipts that comprise the index.


ARCA:FGD - Post by User

Post by Caliaccelon Feb 11, 2019 3:24pm
556 Views
Post# 29348794

Finally, Some Good News!! The Future Looks Much Brighter!!

Finally, Some Good News!! The Future Looks Much Brighter!!Things are starting to look much better for FGD.

The CEO and previous directors of the board are all gone.

The previous CEO stated: "Circumstances have forced me to make this decision…”.

What circumstances? Very interesting.

Then a new director, Mr. Froese, came on board.

He may call himself Jack or he may call himself John. (fyi; Jack is a nickname of John like Bob is to Robert).

Note: Bloomberg reports that FGD's new board member is “John Froese.”

It would then make sense that this is the same  “John Froese” who is:

Head of Program & Partner Management Citi Fintech
New York, New York

And now a 2nd director has also come on board:

Anil Saxena who worked at Bell Media and “brings a wealth of telecommunications experience.”

So, old directors and CEO forced to leave and new directors have come on board. Perhaps there will be a new partnership or financing that we may hear about soon.

Don't confuse a trading halt with the assumption that the company and employees have just been sitting around doing nothing while waiting for stock trading to resume. Of course they have continued working in the background.

They have since hired a new Chief Revenue Officer who is a seasoned senior executive with over 20 years of active experience having recently served as Managing Director, Global Sales for one of the largest US based cross-border payments companies. He has a Master's degree in International Relations from Columbia University in New York. He worked for HSBC, American Express, Western Union and State Bank of India.

And now FGD has 2 new board members who will attract further qualified people.

Don’t forget the former directors, etc. who are still major shareholders of FGD:

MAJOR HOLDERS

Name                                  Shares Held                       As Of Date

Peter Alan Lacey                      17.57M                               03/1/18
Kevin Price                               11.99M                              09/25/17
Ray Wieler                                 9.14M                                01/2/18
Andre Itwaru                              7.28M                                9/25/17
Nayeem Saleem Alli                  4.05M                               02/16/18
Douglas A. Smith                           1M                                09/25/17
Naresh Singh                             105K                                 09/25/17
 
I am sure that they are all very interested in seeing a positive outcome for FGD too.

FGD’s financial statements are all up to date.

Debt and encumbrances will be converted and there will probaly be new financing.

Don’t forget that fintech is a $2 Trillion industry.

Don’t forget that FGD already has an operating technology platform, customers and have formed partnerships with major companies.

Don’t forget that FGD already has 43 U.S. state licences making FGD "one of the most licensed companies in the USA."

Bullboard Posts