Mark Oelschlager, manager of the Morningstar five-star rated Pin Oak Equity fund (POGSX), learned a lot from his father about managing a portfolio but has found success by taking a slightly different approach.

I was shocked to find I couldn’t vote on the Unilever move abroad because I hold the shares electronically.  How do I make sure I can exercise my right to vote the next time one of the companies I have shares in wants to do something like this? Mark Taylor: …

Vodafone can hardly be accused of having feeble ambitions. When the telecoms firm launched its improvement plan in 2013, under the codename Project Spring, it said it wanted to become one of the top-two providers in all of its markets. But five years on, shares have slumped by 25 per …