Retail Investors Take the Mic: Engaging the Modern Shareholder

Retail Influence on the Rise The 2025 proxy season highlighted a paradox the OPTIMIZER has long noted: retail shareholders are more important than ever, yet remain seriously under-engaged when it comes to actually voting their proxies. At many large-cap companies,...

2025 Was The 90th Anniversary Of The Proxy Solicitation Business: A Quick Look At The “Highlights And Lowlights” And A Closer Look At Where It Stands Today

It’s been 90 years since the Nye family turned its brokerage business, Georgeson & Co., into a “proxy-chasing business” in 1935 – a time when individual investments in stocks had become very big business and voted proxies were very much in demand at Shareholder...

2025 MARKS THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF “NOTICE AND ACCESS” – THE BEST “PUSH-MODEL” EVER!

BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SAVED. BUT NOW, IT DESPERATELY NEEDS A FIX: A “PULL-MODEL” THAT WORKS – AND A RADICAL RE-ORDERING OF REQUIRED INFO Issuers of securities should be sounding big cheers for 25 years of Notice and Access – which has saved tens of billions of dollars...

The ‘Biggest New Thing?’- A Double-Binding Bylaw Proposal

Activist investor Michael Levin and the editor of The Activist Investor (TAI) - inspired by the Tesla-proposed settlement of Musk’s comp-case to allow a (non-binding) vote on DIRECTOR COMPENSATION has since filed binding bylaw proposals to require shareholder approval...

The Supplier Scene 2014

Boom! The acquisition by number-one T-A Computershare of Registrar & Transfer Company’s stock transfer business – along with its Commerce Financial Printers unit and R&T’s relatively new Eagle Rock Proxy Advisors business – dropped with a big loud bang in May

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