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New items are regularly added under the News and Issues tab, including to Issue Tracker, a summary of the latest information on the hottest topics, where new items are shown in RED.  A recent addition under Industry News is that the SEC has been asked to evaluate the appropriateness of suppression and other fees being charged for investors in separately managed accounts (“SMAs”).  It is asserted  that these fees should not be charged in circumstances where an investor has delegated proxy voting rights to a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary. 

Annual Conference Presentations posted.

Recent additions to our Document Library:

• Report on the overvoting problem in processing proxy materials at the beneficial owner level. 
• Notice and Access FAQs and proxy season statistics provided by Broadridge.
• Excel spreadsheets created by the STA Cost Basis Sub-Committee regarding common transfer scenarios that also give the appropriate tax lot allocation.
• Cost Basis Reporting Center sponsored by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services.
• Transfer Agent database, provided by Group Five, Inc., which contains the name and telephone number of the current transfer agent of publicly-traded companies.
• Latham & Watkins LLP paper entitled “The Parallel Universes of Institutional Investing and Institutional Voting” - March 2010.
• Discussion Draft from Shareholder Services Coalition members on Proxy Advisory Services to Help Policymakers and Regulators in their Review and Evaluation of the Proxy Voting System - March 4, 2010. 

Other Sections

Congratulations to Kevin McCosker in receiving the Tony Fireman award at the 2010 Annual Conference.

SEC news release and fact sheet on SEC "proxy plumbing"

Bio added for our most recent scholarship winner, Patrick Feeney.

Added details re our new eLearning course, Preparing for the Annual Meeting.

New SSA members list updated; added an updated photo of the Board.

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