Given that shares are held in nominee accounts, will Freetrade be able to vote on the likes of Unilever’s relocation on behalf of users with shares in that company? Aviva were vocally against that Unilever plan, so spoke on behalf of all its pension customers. If so, how will Freetrade make decisions on how to vote? Or are the shares held by another broker higher up who would be doing that?
Secondly on the likes of AGMs and shareholder benefits, will there be any process for users to attend (if permitted by the company since that varies)/take benefit of these? This seems to differ between stockbrokers, so was wondering what Freetrade’s policy will be.
Does Freetrade have anything for AGM voting?
I personally don’t want to go to other companies AGM’s but I’m curious if I’m able to vote via Freetrade? Ideally some sort of proxy vote through Freetrade.
Bonus points for being able to do this in app in the future! As this platform is growing fast, I wouldn’t want new investors to be unaware of their opportunity to vote.
Currently though, how do I vote at a company’s next AGM?
Not sure whether this will help launch shareholder voting any faster. However, I noticed that Interactive Investor appear to use an integration with a third party company called “proxyvote.com” in order to handle company AGM votes, etc. within their site. It looks like a fairly simple light integration, but it’s quick, simple to use and it does the job.
I just thought that I’d mention this as it would be good to get shareholder voting added sooner rather than later and this might be a fairly simple way to do it.
