Citywire quotes Ros supporting the AIC petition’s calls to ensure retail platforms make it easier for shareholders to vote, especially after the Saba debacle exposed the failures to do so currently. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted in Investment Week backing the AIC campaign to ask Government to legislate to improve voting rights for shareholders in UK investment trusts, following the Saba raid.
Citywire’s Friday Briefing quotes Ros warning that the FCA must urgently get cost disclosures right, to help UK markets catch up after years of de-rating.
Citywire quotes Ros and Baroness Bowles campaign to help the FCA recognise the damage its misleading cost disclosure rules are causing to UK listed closed ended investment companies and call for consumers to finally be given correct data.
Investment Week covers the response from Ros and a large group of Parliamentarians, to the FCA consultation on the new CCI consumer protection regime, explaining why investment trusts should not be covered as they are already highly regulated.
Ros tells Citywire about the dangerous confusion that has been created around investment trust charge disclosures, because several Retail Platforms are not following the latest FCA announcements, preventing a uniform charge disclosure regime and misleading investors. ( link to pdf )
Ros is quoted in Investment Week, as Boaz Weinstein of Saba requests – on twitter X – a meeting to discuss his hostile bids for UK investment trusts.
Ros is quoted in the Daily Mail, warning that turning closed-ended investment trusts into open-ended funds will risk a Woodford-style failure as open-ended structures are not suitable for holding illiquid long-term assets. ( link to pdf )
Ros was quoted in the Daily Mail expressing concerns about the impact of flawed cost disclosure rules, stemming from the EU and misapplied in the UK, on the vulnerability of UK investment trusts to hostile takeover. ( link to pdf )
Ros is featured in a Trust Intelligence ‘Market Matters’ podcast, talking about the investment trust crisis and also her career and market views.