Regulations and Law

Meetings for Investors

23 Mar 2018 / Meetings for Investors

Analyst Presentations: the Unlevel Playing Field

A core aim for ShareSoc is to seek to level the playing field for individual shareholders. One aspect of this is addressing the cosy chats that companies have…

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Blog

23 Mar 2018 / Blog

Sustainable Finance Action Plan

ShareSoc welcomes the actions proposed by the European Commission which should bring about more transparency for investors and favour sustainable long-term value creation for end-investors and savers. ShareSoc…

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Corporate Governance

21 Mar 2018 / Corporate Governance

Aviva Preference Shares: Write to your MP!

Please write to your MP requesting that a Parliamentary Select Committee investigate Aviva’s action. The Financial Times published a joint letter from Peter Parry of UKSA and Cliff…

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Company News

18 Mar 2018 / Company News

Conviviality

It is a great name for a bar, but is a fancy name good for a quoted conglomerate plc? The shares were suspended on 14 March. The FCA…

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AIM

3 Mar 2018 / AIM

Beaufort and the Regulators: US Prosecutors Expose Wide Ranging Scam

News began to emerge yesterday of problems at broker Beaufort Securities. Firstly, the FCA posted this RNS stating that brokerages Beaufort Securities Limited and Beaufort Asset Clearing Services…

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22 Feb 2018 / Brokers

ShareSoc will Demand Action from the FCA over Account Switching Delays

Earlier this month I read this Times article concerning disgruntled clients of Barclays’ Smart Investor platform. It highlights once again the longstanding issue that changing your provider of share…

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5 Feb 2018 / Insolvency and Administration

Carillion and FRC investigation

I know that some members are taking a very active interest in what went wrong at Carillion. The email below from the FRC contains a link to a…

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ShareSoc

16 Jan 2018

Regulation of shareholder action groups following the debacle of the RBS case

Regulation of shareholder action groups following the debacle of the RBS case (see http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-5266449/Demand-probe-RBS-Shareholders-Action-Group.html ). As regards the suggestion that such groups be “regulated”, I do not see…

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Meetings for Investors

16 Jan 2018 / Meetings for Investors

Private Investor Dialogue with the FRC

Following the success of the last year’s FRC event (photo below) a date of 26th November 2018 has been agreed for a Private Investor Dialogue with the FRC.…

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Corporate Stewardship

19 Dec 2017 / Corporate Stewardship

Investment Association Naughty Register

I heard Chris Cummings(CC) CEO of the Investment Association on the BBC Radio 4 this morning launching their new naughty register. https://www.theinvestmentassociation.org/publicregister.html The interview went something like this:…

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ShareSoc

12 Dec 2017

Further on the FRC and its Report on the HBOS Audit

Roger’s blog makes a number of hard hitting points about the FRC. However, there are some promising actions which indicate change is happening at the FRC. The meeting…

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Corporate Governance

25 Nov 2017 / Corporate Governance

FRC study: Risk and Viability Reporting

In July of this year, UKSA and ShareSoc members received an email inviting them to participate in a survey being run by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The…

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