interactive investor calls for UK firms to improve shareholder communications

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Valeria Martinez
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interactive investor is calling on UK-listed companies to take steps to improve their shareholder communications as it prepares to launch a good practice ‘AGM Experience’ scorecard.

In a ‘Dear CEO' style letter, the investment platform wrote to FTSE 100 chairs and the UK's 20 most held investment trusts by value to warn that it will be shining a light on their shareholder communications and will be calling for improvements.  The ii ‘AGM Experience' scorecard will measure how well FTSE 100 companies and the most popular investment trusts engage with private investors in the lead up to, during, and immediately after annual general meetings.  Companies will be assessed across four distinct sub-categories as part of the assessment process: transparency, communication...

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