Optimizer To Activists And Noisemakers Re: Virtual Meetings: You Folks Are Really Missing The Boat Here!
Despite the many good things your editor, and other managers and consumers of Virtual Meetings have to say about them, they’ve been coming under heavy fire of late. Activist Tim Smith of Walden Asset Management has presented Intel, Broadridge Financial Solutions and...Reaching Out To Directors
REACHING OUT TO DIRECTORS WITH SOME GOOD DIRECTOR EDUCATION PROGRAMS: Those gosh-darned university off-sites aimed at Directors seem to be proliferating like flies on a warm mincemeat pie – although lately, a bit of much needed consolidation seems to be afoot. The...Tales From The Crypt
Horror Stories About The Perils Of Holding Abandoned Property From The Optimizer’s Story Vault… All Of Them Absolutely True.
From States “Reaching Out” To Shareowner “Out Reach”
“To reverse the detrimental effects of these state ‘reach out’ initiatives, issuers and transfer agents must be proactive in maintaining shareowner contact to curtail securities escheatment.”
Reaching Out To Investors Via The Proxy Statement
The Optimizer Interviews Dannette Smith, Secretary To The Board Of Unitedhealth Group, Incorporated, The Winner Of Corporate Secretary Magazine’s 2010 Award For Best Proxy Statement
Reaching Out To Institutional Investors
Some Thoughts – And Lots Of Practical Tips – From Steven L. Brown, Director Of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF
Laurel Hill Advisory Group
An Interview With Dr. William J. Catacosinos, Chairman Of Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC And His Senior Colleagues
SEC Proposes New Rules For “Notices” To Foster “Access”: We Tell You… And Them… What You Really Need To Do…
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 –...What’s The Climate For The SEC Online Proxy Rules? Hot, Hot, Hot.
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...Commissioner To The SEC On Notice & Access – “Fix It Or Scrap It!” Shouldn’t It Be: “Beneficial Shareholder Voting – Fix It First”?
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...Escheat Due Diligence: The Value Of Staying Connected
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.
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...Accubasis… A “Just-In-Time Solution” To A Looming And Rather Scary New Business Requirement For Publicly Traded Companies… And Their Agents…
An interview with Lori Trezza, V.P. Product Management at DTCC
The State Of Unclaimed Property: The Chaos Continues
An Interview with Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
