FOR THE past two years, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) CEO Richard Daly has been talking to analysts about the promise of his pet project – the company’s proprietary Investor Network shareholder forum that has failed to gain market acceptance. Now he is ratcheting up the rhetoric and angling to have the U.S. Securities and [...]
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RICH DALY, the CEO of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), has responded to investor concerns about the potential impact on his company of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proxy system review, saying critics want to take the system back 45 years and companies’ costs could more than double in an unregulated market. Speaking on [...]
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STUART CROSBY, the CEO of Australia-based Computershare Limited (ASX:CPU), the world’s biggest transfer agent business and main rival to Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR), has praised the Securities and Exchange Commission’s concept paper on improving the US proxy system. In a presentation to analysts on announcing his company’s full-year 2010 results, Crosby said the concept paper [...]
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Open social networks
Don’t get me wrong: I believe in openness. I believe that social networks should be set free to self-regulate. I believe that in a perfect world, social libertarianism makes sense. I believe that good, quality, trustworthy content would bubble up and all that nasty, nefarious, spammy stuff would be drowned out.
But life’s not [...]
