Investor Access To The Director Nominating And Voting Machinery: A Certainty For 2010?
We came away from the Society’s annual conference almost 100% certain that there would be “proxy access” in time for the 2010 meeting season.
A Few New Developments To Watch That Crossed Our Path This Season
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…
Our Last-Ditch Effort To Prevent The Federalization Of Shareholder Meetings
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
A Postcard From Post-Recession America
An Interview with Eric van Aalst and Kevin Pezien of CITCO
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...Failing Grades For The Pay Czar: “F’d” For Sure:
In our last issue we opined that a Pay-Czar was “probably NOT a good thing”…and his recent actions have proven us right
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.
Proxy Management – At Its Best
An Interview With Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
Technology… Trust… And The Need To “Stay Connected” As We Look Toward 2010
Our Annual Interview With Ellen Philip, Of Ellen Philip Associates.
King Of The Community Proxy Fight
An Interview With Artie Regan Of Regan & Associates, Inc.
Some Special Advice For CFOs – And For Small And Mid-Cap Companies – On “Engaging” Investors, And On The Rules Of Engagement… And On The Important Dos And Don’ts When It Comes To Being Prepared For A Potentially Unfriendly Approach By One Or More Investors…
An interview with Bruce Goldfarb, President & CEO and Patrick McHugh, Senior Managing Director of Okapi Partners
Proxy Access? A Lot Of Very Smart People Talking About A Very Stupid Issue.
An Interview With Ed Durkin, Director, Corporate Affairs Department, United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
Wells Fargo Shareowner Services
An Interview With Katie Sevcik And Deb O’Donnell
Computershare – Integrated Value
An Interview With Jay Mchale, President, US Equity Services, Computershare
We Ask Some Of The Smartest And Most Interesting People We Know, “What’s At The Top Of Your Mind As You Look Toward 2010?
What Do You Plan To Focus On Most Intently, And What Advice, If Any, Do You Have For Readers?
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.
Podcast Alert: Annual Meeting Season 2026 — Expert Advice from Carl & Peder Hagberg
Carl and Peder Hagberg of The Shareholder Service OPTIMIZER join Meredith Ervine from TheCorporateCounsel.net to discuss proxy season risks, virtual meetings, and shareholder engagement for 2026.
Listen to hear their insights on this year’s annual meeting season.