IA asks FTSE companies how they are addressing shareholder concerns

Letter to FTSE All-Share members

Jayna Rana
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The Investment Association (IA) is writing to members of the FTSE All-Share who received 20% of votes against a resolution or withdrew a resolution in 2017 to ask how they have tackled these shareholder concerns.

The names of companies that have been contacted will appear on the IA-hosted Public Register of shareholder votes which will go live later this year, as announced this summer by the UK government. The letter is being sent to firms in the FTSE All-Share who received votes of 20% against any resolution or withdrew a resolution this year. It will give them an opportunity to provide a public explanation on how they have since addressed their shareholders' concerns since the shareholder vote, before the Public Register goes live. IA to name and shame firms facing revolts over executive ...

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