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Coalition Statements and Releases
"Shareholder Communications Coalition Launches Campaign for More Transparency and Disclosure in Proxy Matters," Press Release, October 29, 2008
In the News
"Institutional Ownership: No More Secrets," IR Update, August 2011
"Ernst & Young Buys Assests of Proxy Governance," Social Funds, May 26, 2011
"Why your shareholder vote may not count," Fortune, December 1, 2010
"Time to End Proxy Vote Monopoly: Opinion," The Street, October 26, 2010
"Transfer Agents to SEC: We Can Send Out Proxy Materials For Less," Securities Technology Monitor, October 14, 2010
"How to submit comments on SEC rulemaking," IR Magazine, October 7, 2010
"Transfer Agents Take to Web to Promote Proxy Reform," Securities Technology Monitor, September 29, 2010
"Raider Wants SEC to Investigate Broadridge Over Share Count," Securities Technology Monitor, August 23, 2010
"SEC Looks to Improve Communication Between Investors and Companies," On Wall Street, July 15, 2010
"SEC Delves Into 'Proxy Plumbing,'" Dow Jones, July 14, 2010
"SEC to Discuss Proxy Reform on July 14," Securities Industry News, July 7, 2010
"Hot Topics: Shareholder Communications Coalition," The Boardroom Channel, June 24, 2010
"Transfer Agents to SEC: Eliminate Suppression Fees," Securities Industry News, June 17, 2010
"Over-voting or Over-reporting: 'Tempest in a Teapot'?" Securities Industry News, May 17, 2010
"Proxy Advisors Find Themselves in the Spotlight," Business Ethics, May 17, 2010
"Will activists go wild in a proxy access world?," IR Magazine, May 2010
"Proving a 'Beneficial' Shareholder Is, In Fact, a Shareholder," Securities Industry News, March 22, 2010
"NIRI, SCSGP Issue Recs on Proxy Advisory Firm Oversight," Compliance Week, March 15, 2010
"Voting Your Shares May Start to Matter," New York Times, March 5, 2010
"The Parallel Universes of Institutional Investing and Institutional Voting," Latham & Watkins LLP Corporate Governance Commentary, March 2010
"SEC's OBO/NOBO System Said Overdue For Change," BNA Securities Law Daily, February 19, 2010
"A Roadmap to Reform," Corporate Secretary, February 2010
"Who Pays for Proxy Reform?" Securities Industry Blog, January 12, 2010
"Inside Track with Broc: Niels Holch on Shareholder Communications Coalition," TheCorporateCounsel.net, November 20, 2009
"SEC to Review Shareholder Voting," The Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2009
"U.S. regulators looking at shareholder anonymity," Reuters, November 4, 2009
"Highlights from the Corporate Secretary East Coast Think Tank: Fixing proxy plumbing and other messes," IR Magazine, November 3, 2009
"Altman floats proxy system revamp," IR Magazine, October 29, 2009
"Shareholder Communications Coalition Releases Recommendations to Reform the Proxy System," The STA Newsletter, October 2009
"RiskMetrics: A Growing Problem for Boards?" Agenda, September 21, 2009
"SEC Gives Shareholders More Proxy Voting Rights," Money Management Executive, June 1, 2009
"Let's Modernize the Proxy System," The STA Newsletter, April 2009
"Proxy-Services Upstart Cuts Distribution Fees," securitiesindustry.com, January 15, 2009
"Broadridge Competitor Slashes Fees," IR Magazine, January 14, 2009
"Electronic Proxy Voting is a Reality," IR Global Rankings, January 2009
"A Proxy Model From Offshore: U.S. Proxy System Lages in Transparency and Accuracy," STA Newsletter, January 2009
"Big Business Goes to Bat for Small Shareholders," Agenda, November 24, 2008
"Upstart looks to break Broadridges's hammerlock on proxy services," Financial Week, November 18, 2008
"Broadridge faces rival on 'street name' side," IR Magazine, November 18, 2008
"Coalition of Trade Associations Urges Congress, SEC to Update Proxy Rules," Bureau of National Affairs, November 7, 2008
"Business lobbies seek curb on hedgies," Financial Week, October 29, 2008
"Questions surround proxy firm that botched Yahoo vote count," Financial Week, August 22, 2008
"In proxy voting messes, Broadridge a common denominator," IR Web Report, August 5, 2008
"Court sides with hedge funds on CSX vote," International Herald Tribune, June 12, 2008
"E-Proxies land with an e-thud: Voting plunges," Financial Week, June 2, 2008
"Turning the Tables: RiskMetric's Head Faces His Day of Shareholder Judgment," The Wall Street Journal, June 2, 2008
"Shareholder Voting Declines as Companies Adopt Web Ballots," The Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2008
"CSX files lawsuit against TCI," Jacksonville Business Journal, March 17, 2008
"Blame the 'Stock Vault'?," The Wall Street Journal, July 5, 2007
"The Individual Investor: A Potential 'Swing' Voter," Compliance Week, May 22, 2007
"'Empty voting' ploy used by hedge funds is on SEC's radar," Investment News, February 12, 2007
"How borrowed shares swing company votes," The Wall Street Journal, January 26, 2007
"Corporate Voting Charade," Bloomberg Markets, April 2006
"Large US companies want to communicate," Financial Times, December 12, 2005
"Investors May Not Want This Hot Line," Business Week, December 5, 2005
"Proxy Voting Automation: Web Builds Bridge to 'street-level'," Bank Technology News, December 2005
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