Aug 19, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Issues, Proxy
With annual meetings being top of mind for many companies at this time of the year, the Optimizer sat down with John Dunn, Vice President, US Corporate Issuer Sales at Broadridge to get his perspective and learn what is new at the company.
Aug 19, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Executive Compensation & Search, Issues
By Jeremy L. Goldstein, Jeremy L. Goldstein & Associates, LLC
Aug 18, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Annual Meetings, Issues
Rasing The Bar For Board Communication
Aug 18, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Annual Meetings, Issues, Virtual Meetings
How we communicate with each other, investors, and consumers is rapidly changing
Aug 16, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Issues, Transfer Agents
The 2015 Industry Index Helps Us Get To Safe Shores
Aug 16, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Issues, Transfer Agents
Transfer agents take a lot of heat – from shareholders – and sometimes from their clients too, although, after all, that’s what you really pay them to do.
Aug 16, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Issues, Shareholder Services
New Executive Director of the Shareholder Services Association
Aug 16, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Shareholder Services
An Interview with Ellen Philip & Cal Donly Of Ellen Philip Associates
Aug 16, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Shareholder Services
“Gentleman: 2015 set an all-time record for mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs. With a truly astonishing $4.7 trillion in deals announced, and with so many of the deals involving “mega-cap companies”, we imagine that the impacts on Computershare and on Georgeson Were significant ones. So… for starters….”
Aug 16, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Annual Meetings, Issues, Shareholder Services
An Interview With Michael Mackey, President, Alliance Advisors, LLC
Aug 15, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Proxy
“Do not try this at home” – even if you think you have a good safety net: You will almost certainly find yourself “in over your head” one day, you will likely leave a lot of votes ‘on the table’ as unvoted…and, worst of all, your tabulation will have virtually no credibility if challenged.
Aug 15, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Transfer Agents
We first published this article in 2003 and, believe it or not, it didn’t need much updating until recently, other than to note that there has been a very good market for buyers of TA services and a very difficult one for sellers throughout this long period of industry contraction.
Aug 15, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Corporate Governance, History, Issues
Your editor-in-chief was fortunate to have been a witness to dozens and dozens of ‘performances’ by the Gilbert brothers at shareholder meetings, where he came to know them both.
Aug 15, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Corporate Governance, Issues, Money Saving Ideas
Goodbye and Good Riddance We Say, To Those 20+ Page RFPs with their 200-Page Responses
Aug 14, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Annual Meetings, Financial Printing, Investor Relations, Issues, Notice & Access, Technology
Will U.S. Companies Take a Cue from Their European Counterparts & Jump on This Rising Trend? By Erwin Groenendal of Tangelo Software Annual reports serve a vital function. Aside from fulfilling the SEC’s requirements with the Form 10-K, substantial annual reports...
Aug 8, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Abandoned Property, Issues
Unclaimed Property Compliance Update. A review of the current unclaimed property enforcement environment and recent legislative developments.
Aug 4, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Issues, Proxy
Interview with Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO of Okapi Partners
Aug 4, 2016 | 2016, 2016 Supplement, Annual Meetings, Data Management, Document Design & Delivery, Issues, Records Management
Interview with Ellen Philip, ELLEN PHILIP Associates The Optimizer’s Editor In Chief Interviews Ellen Philip of Ellen Philip Associates “Among the first things that issuers need to do this year, is to step back a bit, take a hard, fresh, numbers-oriented look at...