Daily BriefsESG

Daily Brief ESG: Share Trading Unit System and more

In today’s briefing:

  • Share Trading Unit System, Which Made AGM Skeleton and Spurred Cross-Shareholdings, Has Done Its Job


Share Trading Unit System, Which Made AGM Skeleton and Spurred Cross-Shareholdings, Has Done Its Job

By Aki Matsumoto

  • Rather than lowering the minimum investment amount, attention is focused on whether the essence of the issue is whether the long-standing unit share system can be abolished.
  • This system, which doesn’t grant voting rights to shareholders who don’t hold more than certain number shares, has led companies to turn inward-looking by making AGMs skeleton and accelerating cross-shareholdings.
  • With corporate racketeer, who triggered the introduction of this system, gone and the reduction of cross-shareholdings beginning, shareholder units that can exercise voting rights for open AGMs should be reexamined.

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