AJ Bell provides retail shareholders with electronic voting capabilities

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Linus Uhlig
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Retail investors registered with investment platform AJ Bell will now be able to cast votes electronically for company shareholder meetings.

AJ Bell, which online investing platform and app is used by over 370,000 retail investors as of 30 September, said the newly-introduced service will allow shareholders to exercise voting rights at companies' annual general meetings or extraordinary general meetings for UK-based and international shares and investment trusts.  Through a process supported by Broadbridge, AJ Bell clients will receive a notification when they are eligible to vote in a company shareholder meeting.  AJ Bell cuts fees across multi-asset income range Charlie Musson, the investment platform's managing direc...

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