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.
An Interview With Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
Our Annual Interview With Ellen Philip, Of Ellen Philip Associates.
An Interview With Artie Regan Of Regan & Associates, Inc.
An interview with Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO and Patrick McHugh, Senior Managing Director of Okapi Partners
An Interview With Ed Durkin, Director, Corporate Affairs Department, United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
An Interview With Katie Sevcik And Deb O’Donnell
An Interview With Jay Mchale, President, US Equity Services, Computershare
What Do You Plan To Focus On Most Intently, And What Advice, If Any, Do You Have For Readers?
Former DTC Chairman and CEO William F. Jaenike writes about…
So far, the biggest development seems to be how unprepared most companies are to deal with the tighter deadlines that N&A requires…
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!
And With News Of Fresh Dividend Cuts Every Day… We Ask… “Is Buy-And-Hold Investing Dead???”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
And Offer Some Practical Tips On Things To Do And What To Watch Out For As You Shop The Marketplace…
Wow, we noticed… it’s been 10 years since we listed our top-ten proofreading tips… tips which several readers told us they had tacked to their walls.
The first thing to catch our eye; the number of “official proxy fights” already underway is 33% higher than last year ’s previously record-breaking rate
Every year around this time we try to reflect on the Spring Annual Meeting Season – to try to make some sense out of all the things we saw, and heard, and read…
By Reid Pearson, Managing Director, The Altman Group, Inc.
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.
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.
Listen to hear their insights on this year’s annual meeting season.