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...

Key Risks – And Internal-Control Checkpoints To Check With Current And Potential Service Suppliers – Ranked By Riskiness

Here’s our “Top 5” list of internal-control risks areas - ranked in order of “riskiness” - that deserve an extra level of scrutiny by public companies going into the 2023 proxy season: 1. ABANDONED PROPERTY SERVICES Of all the services where a public company needs to...

Some Special Advice For CFOs – And For Small And Mid-Cap Companies – On “Engaging” Investors, And On The Rules Of Engagement… And On The Important Dos And Don’ts When It Comes To Being Prepared For A Potentially Unfriendly Approach By One Or More Investors…

An interview with Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO and Patrick McHugh, Senior Managing Director of Okapi Partners

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