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Mail on Sunday, 25 July 2021, Do shareholders want to vote?
Post Date: July 25, 2021
This is a personal blog by ShareSoc Director Cliff Weight and does not necessarily reflect ShareSoc's position.
With regard to concerns about the need and demand for voting services, there is some good data in the Mail On Sunday today which is helpful in demonstrating the need for providing a good, quick, easy to use voting service. Viz
Older investors are leading the way in influencing the companies they invest in, according to a new survey by Interactive Investor.
A third of investors aged ...
Telegraph, 23 Feb 2021, How to use your broker to hold your investments to account
Post Date: February 24, 2021
The Telegraph wrote a useful article about AGMs and voting. see https://www.telegraph.co.uk/investing/shares/use-broker-hold-investments-account/
It was headed
How to use your broker to hold your investments to account
But the real story was in the byline - Stockbrokers require investors to jump through lots of hoops to register their vote.
It also explained the problems and quoted ShareSoc:
However, new investors might not know that owning company shares comes with part ownership of a company – and with it the right to vote on issues at their annual ...
Rolls-Royce and Voting Procedures
Post Date: June 2, 2016
I published a report on the Rolls-Royce Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the last ShareSoc newsletter and also here. I wrote to the Chairman after the meeting complaining about...
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