Overview

Introducing The Engagement Appeal – the movement that is connecting the market on inclusive investor engagement. We are calling on all companies listed on the London Stock Exchange and 1 million retail shareholders to commit to inclusive investor engagement by December 2025. Our whitepaper ‘The Path to Inclusive Investor Engagement – A Roadmap for Mutual Benefit’ is now available. It highlights the need for greater engagement between companies and their retail shareholders. It outlines modern principles and solutions to bridge the gap between companies and individual for the benefit of both groups and is the culmination of research spanning over 12 months, and outreach to around 150 contacts at UK PLCs, corporate advisers, institutional investors, sustainable tech firms, impact organisations, regulators and trade associations. The paper has also had input from key academics in the field including Nobel Laureate, Professor Oliver Hart of Harvard University. The Engagement Appeal is a newly formed social venture (registered as The Engagement Act Ltd. company number 14612231) that looks to help both companies and individuals achieve more inclusive investor engagement through constructivism, inter-generational collaboration and wide adoption of techonology. Investor inclusion involves shifting traditional investor relations mindset of company engagement being solely focused on the largest institutional shareholders to including all investors, particularly retail shareholders, in engagement programs, such as the quarterly investor road show. More tangibly, this involves applying new and existing tech to communicate with and facilitate participation by all investors in corporate events, such as proxy voting and AGMs where hybrid participation – in-person and live-stream – should always be available. Please join our mission to drive positive change. Access the white paper and sign the appeal by visiting our website.