Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q3, Best & Worst Practices, Inspectors of Election, Issues, Proxy
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”.
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Best & Worst Practices, Issues
And Offer Some Practical Tips On Things To Do And What To Watch Out For As You Shop The Marketplace…
Aug 16, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q4, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Proxy
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.
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q1, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Issues
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
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q2, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Issues
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…
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Activist Investors, Executive Compensation & Search, Issues
By Reid Pearson, Managing Director, The Altman Group, Inc.
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q3, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Technology, The Basics
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.
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q2, Issues, Money Saving Ideas, Notice & Access
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.
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Annual Meetings, Best & Worst Practices, Issues, Money Saving Ideas, Notice & Access, Proxy
By Rhoda Anderson, President, Rhoda Anderson Associates, and Co-Founder, EZOnlineDocuments
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q2, Best & Worst Practices, Investor Relations, Issues, Transfer Agents
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.
Aug 15, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q4, Investor Relations, Issues
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…
Aug 14, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q4, Compliance & Ethics, Issues
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...
Aug 14, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q4, Compliance & Ethics, Issues
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...
Aug 14, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q4, Compliance & Ethics, Issues
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...
Aug 8, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q1, Abandoned Property, Issues
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
Aug 8, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Q1, Abandoned Property, Issues
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
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Activist Investors, Annual Meetings, Interviews, Issues
An Interview with Richard C. Ferlauto, Director Corporate Governance and Pension Investment, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Abandoned Property, Interviews, Issues
An Interview with Eric van Aalst and Kevin Penzien of CITCO
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Transfer Agents
An Interview with Todd May, of Wells Fargo Shareowner Services
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Transfer Agents
An interview with Jay McHale, President, US Equity Services, Computershare
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Compliance & Ethics, Interviews, Issues
An interview with Lori Trezza, V.P. Product Management at DTCC
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Technology
An interview with Rich Scotti of Scotti Graphics
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Abandoned Property, Compliance & Ethics, Interviews, Issues
An Interview with Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Interviews, Issues, Proxy
An Interview with Michael Mackey, Managing Partner, Alliance Advisors, LLC
Aug 4, 2008 | 2008, 2008 Supplement, Best & Worst Practices, Employee Stock Ownership, Interviews, Issues
An interview with Ellen Philip and Cal Donly of Ellen Philip Associates