The Paperwork Crisis
Former DTC Chairman and CEO William F. Jaenike writes about…
The Number-One Question We’ve Been Hearing From Readers – By Far – Is “What’s Really Happening With Notice And Access This Season?”
So far, the biggest development seems to be how unprepared most companies are to deal with the tighter deadlines that N&A requires…
Harry Of Hanover Square, And What We Can And Should Learn From Him Today
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!
After The Financial Meltdown We’ve Seen… The Death, Near Death And The Deep Dilution That’s Occurred At So Many Of Our Once-Most-Admired Companies…
And With News Of Fresh Dividend Cuts Every Day… We Ask… “Is Buy-And-Hold Investing Dead???”
Do You Really Believe That Printed Annual Reports Are Dead Or Dying? Analyze This:
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.
Oh, Oh… Get Out The Tranquilizers… It’s Time To Report On Our Annual Tax-Season Stress Test Of Transfer Agent Call Centers
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.
The Best And Worst Practices We Uncovered In Our Annual Review Of Annual Meetings And Meeting Materials
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.
Wining, Dining And Shopping At The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, Which Is Not Just The Biggest, But The Best
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.
An Insider’s Perspective: How To Avoid A Yahoo-Like Tabulation Nightmare
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”.
Career-Makers… Or Career Breakers? We Focus On Some Of The Hottest Topics, And Some Of The Hottest Products Out There – And On Two Undeservedly “Cold Ones” – And Offer Some Practical Tips On Things To Do And What To Watch Out For As You Shop The Marketplace…
And Offer Some Practical Tips On Things To Do And What To Watch Out For As You Shop The Marketplace…
Our Top-Ten Tips For Proofreading Your Annual Report And Proxy Materials… Plus Five New Tips For Today’s Web-Based Environment
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.
With The 2008 Annual Meeting Season Barely Underway, It’s Already Shaping Up To Be The Biggest And Best Ever… For Activists That Is
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
Top Take-Aways On The Spring ’08 Annual Meeting Season:
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…
Executive Compensation – The Activist Battleground For 2009
By Reid Pearson, Managing Director, The Altman Group, Inc.
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
We Are Looking For Fundamental Changes To The Corporate Governance Playing Field. We Want Much Greater Accountability On The Part Of Directors. And We Want To Be Seated As Adults At The Dinner Table.
An Interview with Richard C. Ferlauto, Director Corporate Governance and Pension Investment, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
