We support the FCA in wanting to modernise the funds market, using the synergies IT provides, as the result should empower the investor more. We provide a response that we believe is positive, offering solutions where we can.
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The UK Shareholders Association has pushed back forcefully against government proposals to change the inflation measure used to calculate indexation in the renewables obligation scheme.
Breaking the barriers for retail investors to get access to quality research and companies’ management teams.Equity Development offers all investors the same access to quality research and companies’ management that has traditionally been reserved for fund managers. Equity Development also organises company visits in-person and virtual…
Ordinary investors lack knowledge and information. Broker disregard isn’t helping. Every dividend received from a foreign country is potentially taxed before it reaches you - ‘withholding tax’. You can do something about that. But only if your broker helps you.
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.
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