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- FRC Consults on UK Stewardship Code – ShareSoc Responds
- FCA Consultation – Modernising Redress
- HMRC Consultation – IHT on Pensions
- ShareSoc Evidence to Lords on FCA Enforcement
- ShareSoc supports FCA proposal for criminal background checks on owners and controllers of financial institutions
- UK ISA: ShareSoc submits consultation response
- FCA Consultation on Enforcement Practice & Transparency
- ShareSoc response to House of Commons Education Select Committee
- UKSA and ShareSoc Submission to Labour Party Review of Financial Services
- FCA Consultation GC23/2 Financial Promotions on Social Media
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Experian plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025
AGM: 16th July 2025
Proxy deadline: 14th July 2025
ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance.
Below are links to the:
1. Stockopedia summary report.
2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 16th July 2025 AGM based on their standard template.
3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM.
Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM
The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against two of the resolutions.
Readers should make their own ...
Post Date: June 26, 2025
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BT Group plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025
AGM: 10th July 2025
Proxy deadline: 8th July 2025
ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance.
Below are links to the:
1. Stockopedia summary report.
2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 10th July 2025 AGM based on their standard template.
3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM.
Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM
The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against two of the resolutions.
Readers should make their own ...
Post Date: June 26, 2025
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SIGnet Launches New Group in Cambridge
SIGnet, a national network of individual investor groups, is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in Cambridge. Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join.
SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes through free discussion and mutual education.
You are invited: to an initial online launch meeting to ...
Post Date: June 17, 2025
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National Grid plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025
AGM: 9th July 2025
Proxy deadline: 7th July 2025
ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance.
Below are links to the:
1. Stockopedia summary report.
2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 9th July 2025 AGM based on their standard template.
3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM.
Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM
The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against one of the resolutions, and for two on ...
Post Date: June 11, 2025
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3i Group plc Information and Vote Guidance 2025
AGM: 26 June 2025
Proxy deadline: 24 June 2025
ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance.
Below are links to the:
1. Stockopedia summary report.
2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 26th June 2025 AGM based on their standard template.
3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM.
Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM
The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against two of the resolutions.
Readers should make their own ...
Post Date: June 11, 2025
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SIGnet Launches New Group in Harpenden
SIGnet, a national network of individual investor groups, is excited to announce the launch of a new in-person group based in Harpenden. Investors of all levels of experience are welcome to join.
SIGnet groups meet on a regular basis, typically monthly, to give individual investors the opportunity to socialise, discuss, and learn from each other. The main goal is to improve members' knowledge and investment decision-making processes through free discussion and mutual education.
You are invited: to an initial online launch meeting to ...
Post Date: June 10, 2025
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Attending AGMs Using AJ Bell’s Voting Service
How their service works in practice
Relatively recently, AJ Bell introduced an electronic voting service for clients, which can be accessed from the Account menu (Voting Instructions) when viewing your portfolio. The technology used for this (Broadridge) is the same as that which interactive investor (ii) use for their service. It also offers the option of requesting attendance at a general meeting, which can be found at the top of the form for completing voting instructions.
When I use that option with ii, ...
Post Date: June 4, 2025
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Ashtead Group plc Company Information and EGM Vote Guidance 2025
Court Meeting: 10th June 2025, 10am
EGM: 10th June 2025, 10:15am
Proxy deadline: 6th June 2025
ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing vote guidance and background information on leading companies.
Below are links to the:
1. Stockopedia summary report.
2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 10am Court Meeting of 10th June 2025 based on their standard template.
3. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 10:15am EGM of 10th June 2025 based on their standard template.
4. Minerva detailed research report for the Court ...
Post Date: June 3, 2025
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International Consolidated Airlines Group SA Company Information and Vote Guidance 2025
AGM: 19th June 2025
Proxy deadline: 17th June 2025
ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance.
Below are links to the:
1. Stockopedia summary report.
2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 19th June 2025 AGM based on their standard template.
3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM.
Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM
The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against one of the resolutions and for two on ...
Post Date: June 3, 2025
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Tesco plc Company Information and Vote Guidance 2025
AGM: 12th June 2025
Proxy deadline: 10th June 2025
ShareSoc provide this added value voting information service for Full Members only, providing background information on leading companies and AGM vote guidance.
Below are links to the:
1. Stockopedia summary report.
2. Minerva Vote recommendations for the 12th June 2025 AGM based on their standard template.
3. Minerva detailed research report for the AGM.
Summary of voting issues at this year’s AGM
The Minerva report highlights various issues and recommends voting against two of the resolutions.
Readers should make their own ...
Post Date: June 3, 2025
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FCA – meeting with Ashley Alder, FCA Chair
From the ShareSoc Policy Committee
As part of our mission to educate, inform and represent individual investors, we regularly meet regulatory, government and other key bodies.
We engage actively with the Financial Conduct Authority. We respond to FCA consultations which impact on individuals’ savings and investments. We also meet with FCA executives, some regularly and some on an ad hoc basis.
ShareSoc chair Heather Benjamin, director Mark Northway and Policy Committee member Cliff Weight met Ashley Alder, the chair of the FCA, on 23 ...
Post Date: May 30, 2025
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Press Release: ShareSoc Helps Clients of Hartley Pensions Regain Control of their SIPPs
Hartley Pensions entered administration in July 2022.
Since early 2023, ShareSoc has been providing support to Hartley Pensions Self Invested Pension Plan (SIPP) clients, helping them regain access to their pension assets. To date, only 2,000 SIPPs, out of a total of some 16,000, have been transferred to other providers.
ShareSoc is in close communication with the FCA, who has now agreed to assist in cases where direct communication between affected clients and Hartley Pensions has not been satisfactory. We have already brought ...
Post Date: May 28, 2025
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