Investors bodies oppose two-tier shareholder system

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Institutional investors group have slammed proposals calling for a two-tier shareholding system giving more voting rights to long-term equity holders.

Last week, City minister Lord Myners' told the BBC that shareholders who do not hold shares for the long term should have inferior rights as owners - arguing that "companies are too important" for ...

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