Directors' Trades: Which ASX directors made the biggest buys and sales last week?

The volume of ASX directors’ trades, the buys and the sales, have been heating up as the Christmas shopping season commences.

There were 30 trades above $100,000, none trades above $1 million and two were $10 million or more.

The majority of the biggest trades by ASX directors were sales rather than buys.

Code	Company	Director	Change	Date	Volume	$	What
AV1	Adveritas	Mark McConnell	Buy	20 November	8,000,000	$1,120,000	On market
LRK	Lark Distilling	Geoff Bainbridge	Buy	23 November	105,000	$152,250	On market
PPK	PPK Group	Glenn Molloy	Buy	20 November	37,035	$141,777	Dividend Reinvestment plan
HCD	Hydrocarbon Dynamics	Stephen Mitchell	Buy	23 November	7,462,416	$149,268	Rights Issue
NXS	Next Science	Bruce Hancox	Buy	24 November	130,000	$149,344	On market
PPL	Pureprofile	Andrew Edwards	Buy	24 November	7,877,528	$157,550	Rights Issue
FID	Fiducian Group	Samir Hallab	Buy	25 November	20,000	$117,638	On market
CHN	Chalice Gold Mines	Stephen Quin	Sell	26 November	120,470	$438,558	On market
PSI	PSC Insurance Group	Paul Dwyer	Sell	25 November	10,000,000	$30,000,000	Off market
PSI	PSC Insurance Group	Brian Austin	Sell	25 November	3,333,333	$10,000,000	Off market
FFX	Firefinch	Alistair Cowden	Buy	27 November	750,000	$113,000	On market
SES	Secos Group	Donald Haller	Buy	26 November	7,627,920	$478,826	Placement
NXM	Nexus Minerals	Paul Boyatzis	Sell	27 November	1,500,000	$225,000	On market
4DS	4DS Memory	David McAuliffe	Sell	26 November	5,000,000	$733,757	On market
SXY	Senex Energy	Ian Davies	Sell	20 November	4,269,021	$1,460,230	On market
AMA	AMA Group	Andrew Hopkins	Buy	24 November	3,000,000	$2,329,500	On market
KME	Kip McGrath Education Centres	Storm McGrath	Sell	26 November	200,000	$280,000	Off market
PNV	PolyNovo	Paul Brennan	Sell	1 December	200,000	$678,000	On market
PNV	PolyNovo	Bruce Rathie	Sell	1 December	355,555	$1,194,478	On market
PPK	PPK Group	Dale Mcnamara	Sell	27 November	1,500,000	$8,250,000	Off market
PPK	PPK Group	Robin Levison	Sell	27 November	345,000	$1,897,500	Off market
TUA	Tuas	Robert Millner	Buy	30 November	1,000,000	$684,148	On market
HAS	Hastings Technology Metals	Charles Lew	Buy	1 December	4,000,000	$500,000	Placement
WGO	Warrego Energy	Gregory Columbus	Buy	1 December	1,500,000	$315,000	Placement
ANO	AnteoTech	Geoff Cumming	Sell	27 November	1,289,013	$128,901	On market
SXY	Senex Energy	Ian Davies	Sell	20 August	4,269,021	$1,460,230	On market
GRV	Greenvale Mining	Anthony Leibowitz	Sell	1 December	7,368,420	$140,000	Placement
PNV	PolyNovo	Leon Hoare	Sell	2 December	100,000	$345,400	On market
DDR	Dicker Data	Fiona Brown	Buy	1 December	10,485	$106,616	Dividend Reinvestment plan
SRN	Surefire Resources	Vladimir Nikolaenko	Buy	27 November	24,549,276	$117,409	Rights Issue

The biggest ASX director sales

Leading the way were two directors hailing from PSI Insurance Group (ASX:PSI) – Paul Dwyer and Austin. The pair sold down $30 million and $10 million in shares as part of their company’s $60 million capital raising.

Another pair who sold big as part of a capital raising were Dale McNamara and Robin Levison from mining services company PPK Group (ASX:PPK). They sold $8.25 million and $1.9 million respectively.

The trade came only a few days after their colleague Glenn Molloy bought just over $141,000 in a dividend reinvestment plan.

Bruce Rathie and Paul Brennan of burns tech stock Polynovo (ASX:PNV) parted with $1,194,478 and $678,000 respectively.

Rathie’s explanation was that he was purchasing a commercial office while Paul Brennan was funding renovations of a residential property.

The biggest solo sellers included Senex Energy’s (ASX:SXY) Ian Davies, who had a tax bill to pay, and 4DS Memory’s (ASX:4DS) David McAuliffe who listed several reasons including tax but also buying a property and balancing his investment portfolio.

Biggest buyers

Moving from the ASX directors who were on the other side of share sales, the biggest buyer was Andrew Hopkins from automotive care and accessories outlet AMA Group (ASX:AMA) who bought $2.3 million.

Tech rich listed Mark McConnell was the other $1m+ buyer, chipping $1.12 million into Adveritas (ASX:AV1).

Following them was Robert Millner of Tuas (ASX:TUA), buying $684,000. This company is a Singaporean telco that was spun out of TPG before the latter company was swallowed up by Vodafone.

Buying in a capital raising were Gregory Columbus of gas stock Warrego Energy (ASX:WGO) who bought $315,000; Charles Lew of rare earths play Hastings (ASX:HAS) who bought $500,000, and Donald Haller of recyclable plastic products maker Secos Group (ASX:SES) who bought over $478,000.