In 2022 Issuers Will Have To Fight Harder Than Ever For The More-Important-Than-Ever Retail Vote
This year, The OPTIMIZER believes that the battle for the management-friendly retail investor vote will be harder to win than ever before - even while the retail vote will be a bigger decider than ever before. Here’s why: Over the past 18 months more than 22 million...Information Agents: Everything You Need To Know… Except For The Really Important Stuff?
The OPTIMIZER editors - and other professional “Wall-Street-Watchers” too - are always avid watchers of the “tombstones” that describe the terms of newly proposed Mergers and Acquisitions - and especially those “Offers to Purchase for Cash” - in newspapers of record...Shareholder Records Retention: The Devil’s in the Details
By Merrill B. Stone & Stephanie W. Estey We all can be a little forgetful. For example, most of us who wear glasses seem to misplace them with an annoying degree of regularity. We tear up the house, going from room to room only to find them, quite literally, right...Cocal-Cola Re-Institutes “Quarterly Reports to Shareholders” – In A Modern Way
We were delighted to get this link to the Coca Cola Quarterly Report to Shareholders from Karen Danielson, Coke’s incomparable Shareholder Services Manager, following the SSA discussion on “Better Communications With Shareholders.” ...Hot Topics, Trends, and Tips for Transforming Shareholder Relations in 2019
Some practical advice, cost savings tips, and details of the hot topics and trends in the field of proxy solicitation and governance advisory work: As a proxy firm, our business brings us in contact with the most influential institutional investors in the world and...Wells Fargo Shareowner Services
An Interview With Todd May SVP, Wells Fargo Shareowner Services
Misguided SEC “Guidance” On No-Action Letters
And on Allowing Non-Shareholders to Submit Shareholder Proposals as “Proxies”: Time for Some Tough Talk, We Say
“MINI-TENDER” OFFERORS ARE BACK AGAIN
“HEED THE JUDGE” IN A LANDMARK CASE, BEFORE TURNING OVER YOUR SHAREHOLDER RECORDS TO UNKNOWN AND POSSIBLY UNSCRUPULOUS “SERVICE PROVIDERS.”
Our FOUR Top Takeaways from the 2017 Annual Meeting Season
This year’s big-meeting-season brought two earthshaking changes in the overall corporate governance climate that will, we believe, alter the landscape forever. Also, there were developments on political disclosure and so-called diversity proposals that issuers should...Ways to “Optimize” Your Retail Shareholder Base
Margaret (Peggy) Foran, Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary of Prudential Financial, Inc.
Striving To Deliver Greater Convenience and Control
An Interview with John Dunn, Vice President, U.S. Corporate Issuer Sales at Broadridge.
Q&A With Abby Cowart
New Executive Director of the Shareholder Services Association
The Return Of The Telephone
An Interview with Ellen Philip & Cal Donly Of Ellen Philip Associates
The Optimizer Interviews Jay McHale & Bill Jackson Of Computershare/Georgeson
“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….”
The World Of Shareholder Meetings
An Interview With Michael Mackey, President, Alliance Advisors, LLC
ADRmageddon…SEC Enforcement Subpoenas Hit The Top-4 ADR Banks: Mega-Scandals Threaten ADR Bankers – And Maybe ADRs Themselves
The SEC’s Enforcement Division has issued wide-ranging subpoenas to the four largest ADR banks - and to many of their top officials, we are told - demanding detailed information going all the way back to 1997, according to our source - the chief whistleblower, who,...
