ShareSoc News

A New Shareholder Organisation to Represent Individual Investors in the UK

PRESS RELEASE 01 (14/02/2011) The “UK Individual Shareholders Society”, or “ShareSoc”, has been formed to represent individual shareholders (i.e. private investors, rather than institutions). The reasons for doing this are as follows: There are millions of private shareholders in the UK. They are not adequately represented at present and as a result they have little influence, while other organisations across Europe have tens of thousands of members. We need an active body to campaign for the rights of shareholders and to represent ...

ShareSoc comments on the FRC proposals on “Effective Company Stewardship”

ShareSoc comments on the FRC proposals on "Effective Company Stewardship" and the proposal to drop printed annual reports: FRC_Response. A supplementary response covering the issue of Nomination Committees was also submitted in this document: FRC_Response_Supp

ShareSoc objects to proposal to outlaw execution-only trading

ShareSoc objects to proposal to outlaw execution-only trading. See Consultation Response: MIFID_Response