We are a not-for-profit membership organisation led solely by volunteers.
We:
believe that investors have responsibilities to society as well as rights
also want to help all investors and savers, whether they are UKSA members or not, and to be a trusted source of truths that the financial sector will not willingly publicise
enjoy the process of investing, especially in individual companies.
To achieve this, we:
are resolutely independent of the financial and corporate sectors, which we believe makes us quite distinct
are constituted as a company limited by guarantee, answerable only to our full members, each of whom has a vote at our annual meeting.
The FRC published their overhauled investor UK Stewardship Code 2026 in June this year and seemed to ignore our simple request for the Code to require fund managers to engage with the beneficial owners of their funds
Shareholder democracy is not an optional extra for a healthy economy.UKSA’s view is that the Technical Group must ensure that the manner in which the recommendations are implemented does not erode the rights of individual shareholders or impose additional costs. In particular, UKSA notes:
IS2 is important if we believe in preventing the planet from getting warmer but, with the changes making it easier to report on certain aspects of emissions, is this an exercise to standardise greenwashing? The UKSA Policy Team thinks not. Read on to find out why.IS2 requires companies to report on the amount of gas emissions, whether…
In July 2021 UKSA and ShareSoc and made a joint submission to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (“BEIS”) on their consultation document “Restoring trust in audit and corporate Governance.” (6/7 of the authorship came from UKSA!). BEIS is now known as the Department of Business and Trade (DBT).
We were deeply…
On 6th February 2025, UK Shareholders responded to FRC’s consultation on its new three-year strategy and says it should better reflect the recommendations of the Kingman Review
