The Employee Share Ownership Centre recently wrote to the Prime Minister enclosing an updated edition of Why Employee Share Ownership Matters. Our central argument is simple: successful enterprise creates wealth, and employee share ownership provides a practical, market-based way for working people to participate in the value they help to create. We believe employee share ownership contributes on several fronts: growth, productivity, broader wealth creation and a stronger retail investment culture.

There is another increasingly important dimension. For many employees, a workplace share plan is their first experience of investing. It can introduce people to share ownership, company performance and long-term investment, helping to create the next generation of informed and confident investors. That links closely with the Investment Association’s Retail Investment Campaign, Invest for the Future, which is seeking to encourage more people to move from saving towards informed long-term investing and greater participation in capital markets.

A copy of the Centre’s letter to the Prime Minister can be viewed via this link.

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