AIC Response to Green Paper

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The Association of Investment Companies (AIC) have published their response to the Government’s Green Paper on Corporate Governance. One recommendation contained therein is that “The AIC also recommends that a detailed study to assess retail investors’ access to voting services on platforms and other nominee account services is undertaken to identify any necessary reforms”. This is of course a very positive endorsement of an issue that ShareSoc has been campaigning upon for some time – see our campaign page here: Shareholder Rights Campaign.

In addition if you read the detail submission, they say “Additionally, the study should assess any barriers to switching providers that may be preventing shareholders, that do want to vote but are unable to, from moving to a provider that does offer this service”. This is indeed a very important issue also as currently it takes way too long to switch between brokers or platforms. For example, my latest broker switch has now been running since last October. And that’s not the first time I have experienced such delays. Anyone who experiences this problem should complain to the FCA as I have already done in the past – but they clearly do not get enough complaints about it because no action has been taken and the response did not likely indicate any will be.

Otherwise the AIC’s response to the Green Paper can be read here: http://www.theaic.co.uk/sites/default/files/hidden-files/AICBEISCorpGovReformresponseFeb17.pdf

Roger Lawson

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