All the information needed around BT Shares

Dealing with popular shares can be difficult for the independent investor. Advice is expensive, information arrives late compared to the professionals and share dealing costs are high

BT Shares are some of the most widely held in the UK by independent investors. These investors often hold less than £1,000 of shares in total and 70% of the investors have held the shares more than 2 years.

However, new businesses are sprouting up, offering these independent investors a chance to quickly and easily trade these shares and exert influence. BT Shares are a great example of assets that can benefit from these services. BT, being an ex-government run business has a very wide set of shareholder. Many of these shareholders are not perfectly happy with BT’s management, and it often seems that the business is not run in their interest.

This offers a unique opportunity for these large mass of disparate shareholders – being owners of the business, customers of the business and voters in the highly regulated economy in which the business exists.

Therefore we are advising that the owners of BT shares take a more active role in these businesses. This can involve clubbing their shares together and attempting to exert their influence. This can be done ad-hoc as business decisions are made or at the time of AGMs when the business’ key decisions on governance are made.

The management of BT should be more wary of this consolidation of owner power as they may soon be asked to be more answerable to the UK public shareholders of the business.