By IR Web Report on August 15, 2008
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR), the giant investor communications and brokerage outsourcing firm, plans to connect every US company and every shareholder in a massive social network that could rival Facebook in terms of members. CEO Rich Daly said his company’s investor network will be unique in that it will validate members as real [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meeting, communications, corporate governance, disclosure, institutional investors, investor communications, proxy statements, retail investor, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder, shareholder forum, shareholder proposals
By IR Web Report on August 5, 2008
AN ADMISSION from Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) that a basic system glitch caused it to undercount votes against directors in Yahoo! Inc.’s contentious annual meeting is just the latest in a string of recent problems where the company has been implicated. Questions were raised about the outcome of the Yahoo! meeting — perhaps the [...]
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By IR Web Report on June 9, 2008
DESPITE the risk that they might be reaping short-term gains while laying the foundation for long-term pain, 566 US companies used notice-only e-proxy mailings for their shareholder meetings by the end of April. According to figures compiled by Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc., companies have saved about $132 million through lower print and mailing costs. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meeting, annual meetings, annual reports, broadridge financial solutions inc, corporate governance, director elections, e-proxy, mailing costs, new york stock exchange, proxy statement, proxy statements, retail investor, retail investors, retail shareholders, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder meetings, technology
By IR Web Report on May 7, 2008
I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site. That’s a really good question and one that every company needs to think about. What are the basic requirements for [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged annual meeting, annual meetings, annual report, annual reports, feeds, ir departments, IR websites, recommendation, rss, shareholder, technology
By IR Web Report on April 18, 2008
I’VE HELD off bringing this up before because I feel bad for the folks at Broadridge Financial Solutions. They’ve been getting it in the neck recently over this whole e-proxy debacle. Even the Colgate-Palmolive Company called them out this week in a letter to the company’s shareholders, though I think there may be more to [...]
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