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The FRC published their overhauled investor UK Stewardship Code 2026 in June this year and seemed to ignore our simple request for the Code to require fund managers to engage with the beneficial owners of their funds

Shareholder democracy is not an optional extra for a healthy economy.UKSA’s view is that the Technical Group must ensure that the manner in which the recommendations are implemented does not erode the rights of individual shareholders or impose additional costs. In particular, UKSA notes:

IS2 is important if we believe in preventing the planet from getting warmer but, with the changes making it easier to report on certain aspects of emissions, is this an exercise to standardise greenwashing? The UKSA Policy Team thinks not.  Read on to find out why.IS2 requires companies to report on the amount of gas emissions, whether…

In July 2021 UKSA and ShareSoc and made a joint submission to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) on their consultation document “Restoring trust in audit and corporate Governance.” (6/7 of the authorship came from UKSA!). BEIS is now known as the Department of Business and Trade (DBT). We were deeply…

On 6th February 2025, UK Shareholders responded to FRC’s consultation on its new three-year strategy and says it should better reflect the recommendations of the Kingman Review

A recent article in the Cambridge Law Journal by Eva Micheler (Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science) and Elena Christine Zaccaria (Senior Lecturer at Brunel University London) looked at the Government’s plans to force digitisation of the remaining certificated shares in Britain. 

UKSA writes to Treasury and Department for Business and Trade on key concerns about Digitisation Taskforce The Digitisation Taskforce has still not produced a final report and recommendations to the Government (See Digitisation Taskforce - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)) In anticipation of the final report coming out, UKSA sent this letter to the Treasury…

Ian Brindley to become new Head of Policy Team from 1 January 2025

UKSA, ShareSoc and Share Action have sent their final comments to the Digitisation Taskforce.

Being vigilant is key.  A bit of research identified three red flagsThe flags are:The firm has no licence to operate in the UK.  From the FCA website DEAN-BARON CORPORATE GROUP LLP | FCA: