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Chris Hulme, UKSA Chairman, joined a recent discussion panel on BBC 5Live Money News, following a report from the High Pay Commission.
Chris' contribution used to be linked here, bbc.co.uk/i/b017h4q5, 1h:40m into the programme, but has now been lost.:
The UK Shareholders' Association has made a submission to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on the Furure of Narrative Reporting.
For full details of UKSA's response see the attached document.
The UK Shareholders' Association has made a submission to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills on Executive Remuneration consultation.
The UK Shareholders Association will be represented at the 2011 London Investor Show, taking place at Olympia on Friday 21st October.
Come and visit the UKSA representatives at stand 67.
The London Investor Show have a special offer for UKSA members who would like to attend on the day.
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) — a body of great importance for all private investors — has launched a new initiative to improve the quality of information made available to company owners — ie their shareholders. "Investors are not getting the value they should" said Stephen Haddrill, FRC CEO.
The UK Shareholders' Association has produced a response to the Financial Reporting Council's request for investors' views on how listed companies might curtail the increasing amount of disclosures they are making in annual reports.
Our letter to Mr Bill Knight, Chairman of the Financial Reporting Review Panel, has been produced by Roy Colbran,…
The UK Shareholders' Association has today responded to the European Commission's Green Paper on Corporate Governance (COM 164).
UKSA's response, led by members Roy Colbran and John Hunter, details the private investor's perspective on corporate governance and how it might be enhanced within quoted companies.
Our letter to the Commission is…
Today, leading online investment community The Motley Fool, published a podcast featuring UKSA Chairman Chris Hulme.
This wide ranging discussion addressed several of the biggest issues for private investors today. It was part of The Motley Fool's popular Money Talk series.
Investors Chronicle carries a regular feature on current takeover offers. These are always accompanied by a brief explanation of how takeovers work, but this has now been amended as a result of an intervention by UKSA. An additional paragraph now appears concerning schemes of arrangement, which is the way by that far the majority of takeovers…
As featured in the latest issue of UKSA’s magazine, The Private Investor, one of UKSA’s directors has written to Martin Gilbert, chairman of Chaucer Holdings, an acquisition target, challenging the thinking behind Mr Gilbert’s statement to shareholders, printed in bold to give it emphasis, that, “It is important that all shareholders have the…