Schemes urge FTSE to change free-float rules to protect shareholders

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Schemes have urged FTSE Group to increase entry requirements for admittance to its listed stock exchanges to boost minority shareholder safeguards.

Investors including the Universities Superannuation Scheme, Railpen and Merseyside Pension Fund have called on the firm to increase free float requirements from a 25% minimum to 50%. The group o...

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