United Kingdom | Publication | January 2025
On January, 23, 2025, the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) published the 2025 edition of its Stewardship & Voting Guidelines (2025 Guidelines).
In the 2025 Guidelines the PLSA considers, among other things: recent political and economic events with a direct impact on stewardship issues, the impact on shareholder rights of changes to the UK listing rules and AI developments, sustainable finance developments (including the PLSA’s efforts to increase focus on considering nature as part of good company practice), social factor developments (including the PLSA’s social factor case studies), and workforce developments (including issues such as maternity/paternity pay and leave policies and ethnicity and disability pay reporting).
The 2025 Guidelines are available on the member area of the PLSA website.
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In July 2022 the UK Secondary Capital Raising Review published its report (Report) setting out a series of bold and wide-ranging recommendations for improving the secondary capital raising regime in the UK designed to make it quicker, more flexible, more inclusive of retail investors and more cost-effective, as well as moving towards digitisation and making better use of technology.
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This briefing forms part of a series looking in detail at the SRA’s guidance for in-house teams, issued following a thematic review of the sector, recognising the growth and importance of the in-house role and the unique pressures to which in-house solicitors can be subject.
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