# How can FTSE and AIM companies engage with a wider audience? (Interview)

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/how-can-ftse-and-aim-companies-engage-with-a-wider-audience-interview/412803392
- Published: 2020-01-21T08:50:59+00:00
- Author: Giles Arbor

**Hardman & Co** CEO Keith Hiscock joins DirectorsTalk to discuss his latest report
entitled “Share ownership: for the many, not the few?” Keith explains the meaning
behind the title, the background to the report, the main trends in share ownership
and how share ownership differs by market. Keith goes on to explain how retail is
more important to share prices and liquidity than their percentage ownership would
suggest and what company management from [FTSE 100](https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/news/ftse-100)
through to AIM can do to engage with a much wider investment audience.

Keith Hiscock is personally responsible for the firm’s relationships with its corporate
clients and also for corporate finance. In addition, he is the author of several
articles tackling the issues facing companies in today’s climate.

Keith has more than 35 years’ stockbroking experience and has developed long-standing
relationships with many major institutional investors, including Private Client 
Brokers and Wealth Managers. He started his career at James Capel, at the time the
top-ranked research house in London. He was a founding member of Schroder Securities
and of Agency Partners, a leading research boutique house, and was a member of the
five-man securities board at Evolution. Keith has also advised companies, large 
and small, on their relationships with the capital markets.

Keith was part of the group of investors that acquired Hardman & Co in late 2012.
He holds an MA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Oxford.

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