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Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance News This section on Corporate Governance provides investors with the latest topical news plus some informal comments and insights from ShareSoc’s directors and other contributors.

Nominee Accounts

20 Feb 2017 Nominee Accounts

Press Release – Response to Green Paper on Corporate Governance

ShareSoc has today issued the following press release: How to fix the ills of the UK Corporate Governance scene? ShareSoc and UKSA have given their solutions in a…

Company News

16 Feb 2017 Company News

RBS and Shareholder Committees

As readers may be aware, ShareSoc have requisitioned a resolution for the Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Annual General Meeting requiring a Shareholder Committee be appointed. Do they…

Company News

5 Feb 2017 Company News

US Developments

In my last blog post I criticised the suggestion in the UK Government’s Green Paper that perhaps dual share structures should be permitted so that we could develop…

Blog

1 Feb 2017 Blog

RBS Rejects Democracy

ShareSoc has today issued the following press release: The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has rejected a requisition to implement a Shareholder Committee. ShareSoc will not permit this…

Company News

30 Dec 2016 Company News

New Year Resolutions? How About a New Resolution at RBS?

One of ShareSoc’s recent initiatives has been the promotion of the concept of Shareholder Committees as a way of improving corporate governance in public companies. To pursue this…

Company News

23 Dec 2016 Company News

Fenner AGM Requisition. Why Is It Not a Good Idea?

Fenner Plc (FENR) are the subject of a requisition of a resolution to appoint another director at their forthcoming Annual General Meeting on 11th January. ShareSoc is particularly…

General News

17 Dec 2016 General News

Shareholder Rights Directive Agreed – But It’s Still Defective

There has been agreement within the EU on the final form of the Shareholder Rights Directive. What follows is the press release issued by Better Finance (a body…

Company News

16 Dec 2016 Company News

IDOX and Prejudicial Placings

One of the things that private investors hate is placings made by companies to raise money in which they cannot participate. In other words, the issuance of shares…

Blog

14 Dec 2016 Blog

Campaign to Obtain Shareholder Committee at RBS

This note has been issued by ShareSoc to its Members (but anyone can join in to support the campaign): ShareSoc has advocated the implementation of Shareholder Committees since…

Blog

2 Dec 2016 Blog

Berkeley Group Interims, and Pay

House builder Berkeley Group issued their Interim Results this morning (2/12/2016). It was generally positive about the future so the share price has perked up somewhat today. But…

News

30 Nov 2016 News

Blancco Technology Group and Corporate Governance

I attended the AGM of Blancco Technology Group (BLTG) yesterday (29/11/2016). The Government announced a review of Corporate Governance yesterday but is it not surprising that companies cannot…

Nominee Accounts

29 Nov 2016 Nominee Accounts

ShareSoc Welcomes Corporate Governance Review

ShareSoc has issued the following Press Release: ShareSoc (the UK Individual Shareholders Society) welcomes the Government’s announcement today of a review of Corporate Governance in both public and…

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