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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…

Chris Hulme, UKSA Chairman, today took part in an internet podcast with David Kuo, Financial Broadcaster with The Motley Fool, one of the UK's leading personal finance websites. The podcast, part of The Motley Fool's popular Money Talk series, covered some of the most important issues affecting private investors today.

UKSA’s directors, meeting on 7.5.11, made three new director appointments. Rosita Sherrard and Gerald Roberts have joined the board with immediate effect. Harry Braund will join it on 16.7.11, which is the date of the next board meeting. These appointments, take the board to eight members, two short of the maximum.

At the close of the FRC’s latest consultation on 'effective company stewardship', UKSA is accusing the FRC of hostility towards private investors. As the only democratic body representing private shareholders, UKSA is calling on the FRC to start paying attention to their needs.

UKSA today launches a special offer for new members of half price membership for the first year. This offer is for full membership of the UK Shareholders Association, including company visits, access to the members area of this website and inclusive subscription to our magazine The Private Investor.