Data Security… Maybe The Hottest Topic Around These Days: What Should You Be Asking About… And Doing?
IT’S HIGH-TIME YOU RE-CHECKED THE DATA-SECURITY AT YOUR VENDORS, the Optimizer warned, in our second-quarter 2005 issue, following a truly startling cluster of major data-breaches at companies like BofA, Choice Point, Citicorp and Wachovia…and where we offered a long checklist of points to check on.
More On Notice And Access… And The Best Tip Ever On Maxing-Out On Savings While Minimizing “Lost Votes”
The Broadridge statistics on N&A are out for the period ending May 31, 2008 – the high season for annual meeting mailings – and the numbers are impressive.
Goodbye Edgar Brick Road SEC’s Mandate For Posting Proxy Documents Online Brings Benefits… But Heed These Cautions
By Rhoda Anderson, President, Rhoda Anderson Associates, and Co-Founder, EZOnlineDocuments
Sad as your editor was to see a scheduled proxy fight disappear unexpectedly, along with all the excitement such events bring…not to mention the paycheck…
Heaven help us, we were so stressed out with our own regular work we almost for got to take the tax-season stress test this year.
Some ‘Top Of Mind Insights’ As To What Issuers Need To Think About, And Plan For, After The Current Financial Industry Meltdown
Sad as your editor was to see a scheduled proxy fight disappear unexpectedly, along with all the excitement such events bring…not to mention the paycheck…
A Few ‘Quick And Easy Fixes’ For The “New SEC”
FOR STARTERS, LET’S RID OURSELVES OF THAT FALSE DICHOTOMY – AND THE TOTALLY STUPID DEBATE ABOUT ‘RULES-BASED’ VS. ‘PRINCIPLES–BASED’ REGULATION: While principles are great – and we should all have ‘em – we all need RULES for the really important stuff. The fact is...
Let’s Work Together To Fix The SEC: In This Issue: It Can And Must Be Fixed, We Say…
Just a few short months ago, we met with a fairly large group of very senior public-company people…and one of the top worries that surfaced was the kind of pressure there’d be for quick regulatory ‘fixes’…with all the disruption, extra work - and all the unforeseeable...
Here Are A Few Rules And Regulations That Issuers Of Securities Would Actually Like To See From The SEC… All Of Them Very Simple Fixes, We Say:
TOTALLY ELIMINATE NAKED SHORT SELLING: We still can’t figure why smart people haven’t been able to understand exactly how naked short sales cheat investors – and how they can and do create cascades of sales to spook legitimate investors into panic selling – so the...
Big, Big Doings In The World Of Industry Suppliers
IN THE PROXY WORLD: D.F. King & Co., Inc., – which some industry experts consider to be the biggest U.S. proxy solicitation firm, based on gross revenues
Cost-Basis Accounting And Reporting For Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds…
And Reorg Transactions Is Widely Expected To Become Mandatory Stop This Train We Say, Or Put It On A Better Track… Before It’s Too Late, And Before Issuers Go Broke Trying To Comply
