Aug 15, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q2, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Issues, Proxy
A Delaware court ruled that a binding-bylaw proposal that would prohibit the company from seating any director who failed to achieve a majority vote in an uncontested election had to be included on the ballot at Trico Marine Corporation…
Aug 15, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q4, Activist Investors, Issues, Proxy
We Also Urge The SEC To Urgently Fix The Scandalous Defects In Our Old And Badly Broken “Proxy Plumbing” Systems Before Forging Ahead… And Tell Them How To Do It
Aug 15, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Investor Relations, Issues
An Interview with Eric van Aalst and Kevin Pezien of CITCO
Aug 14, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q3, Annual Meetings, Compliance & Ethics, Issues
At long last, recognizing that under the current N&A “regime” issuers have lost fully one-half of the votes of individual investors that they’d been getting before N&A – but still insisting there might be “other explanations” for this coincident phenomenon –...
Aug 14, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Compliance & Ethics, Issues, Proxy
By Rhoda Anderson, President, Rhoda Anderson Associates, and Co-Founder, EZOnlineDocuments It doesn’t seem so hard these days to forecast the climate at the SEC. With the financial “tsunami” of last year and an ongoing technology front fast moving in, it seems to be...
Aug 14, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Compliance & Ethics, Issues, Proxy
By T.L. Montrone, Chairman, President and CEO of Registrar and Transfer Company The SEC solicited comments on ways to improve Notice and Access (“N&A”) through a proposed rule-making published earlier this year. Concerned with the drastically reduced retail...
Aug 8, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Q3, Abandoned Property, Issues
In our last issue we opined that a Pay-Czar was “probably NOT a good thing”…and his recent actions have proven us right
Aug 8, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Abandoned Property, Best & Worst Practices, Compliance & Ethics, Issues
Recent developments have underscored the value of “staying connected” to shareholders in an attempt to prevent escheatment or preserve the immunity granted by states when a corporation or its transfer agent escheats securities to a state as unclaimed property.
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Proxy
An Interview With Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Interviews, Investor Relations, Issues
Our Annual Interview With Ellen Philip, Of Ellen Philip Associates.
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Proxy
An Interview With Artie Regan Of Regan & Associates, Inc.
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Activist Investors, Best & Worst Practices, Interviews, Investor Relations, Issues
An interview with Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO and Patrick McHugh, Senior Managing Director of Okapi Partners
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Activist Investors, Interviews, Issues
An Interview With Ed Durkin, Director, Corporate Affairs Department, United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Interviews, Investor Relations, Issues, Transfer Agents
An Interview With Katie Sevcik And Deb O’Donnell
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Interviews, Investor Relations, Issues
An Interview With Jay Mchale, President, US Equity Services, Computershare
Aug 4, 2009 | 2009, 2009 Supplement, Best & Worst Practices, Interviews, Issues
What Do You Plan To Focus On Most Intently, And What Advice, If Any, Do You Have For Readers?
Aug 19, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q3, History, Issues
Former DTC Chairman and CEO William F. Jaenike writes about…
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q1, Issues, Notice & Access
So far, the biggest development seems to be how unprepared most companies are to deal with the tighter deadlines that N&A requires…
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q4, History, Issues
The SSA – And We – honor Harry Poulakakos –Owner Of the World-Famous Harry’s Bar Of Hanover Square… “Wall Street’s Favorite Watering Hole” For Over 36 Years. What Valuable Lessons There Are To Be Learned Here!
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q4, Dividend Reinvestment Plans, Issues
And With News Of Fresh Dividend Cuts Every Day… We Ask… “Is Buy-And-Hold Investing Dead???”
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q1, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues
In a move that was mighty hard for followers of the current credit market mess to miss – but one that warrants additional notice, we think – Regions Financial Corp. took four full pages of the March 18th Wall Street Journal – the first page in impossible-to-ignore chartreuse, which added even more big money to the big media ‘buy’ – to reprint the first four pages of its Annual Report.
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q2, Best & Worst Practices, Investor Relations, Issues, Transfer Agents
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.
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q3, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues
It’s that time again, for one of our longest-running and most-read columns…And this year, emulating those “bests” and avoiding those “worsts” seems more important than ever.
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q3, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues
Let’s take our own advice and cut straight to the chase: WHY is it the best annual meeting we’ve ever been to? Three big reasons; it’s a huge moneymaker for Berkshire Hathaway shareholders…it treats shareholders with the total respect they deserve…and…it’s a ton of fun.
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q3, Best & Worst Practices, Inspectors of Election, Issues, Proxy
This interview first appeared in the Fall edition of Broc Romanek’s new publication, InvestorRelationships.com, which also covered another important “hot topic” in its inaugural issue, with a “Roadmap to Regulation FD under the SEC’s new website guidance”.