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...

Big-Company Proxy Fights – Back In A Big Way… Small And Micro-Cap Fights Look To Surge In 2024 … Anti-ESG Proposals Expected To Surge Too…Hostile Takeovers Are Back

The 2024 Annual Meeting Season and the Big-Company Proxy Fight Season is off to a roaring start – with Nelson Peltz of Trian back yet again at Disney with a big new backer, major investor Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, whom Disney fired not so long aga… And even before...

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