Small investors are increasingly casting their proxy votes on the go.
More than 1.8 million proxy ballots last year were cast via smartphone or tablet, up 51% from a year earlier, according to proxy processing firm Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. The number of mobile votes has increased fivefold from 2011, the year Broadridge introduced the service, but it still represents less than a tenth of all small investors’ votes..............
The rest of the (proxy processing) market is split between closely held Mediant Communications LLC of New York and Australia-based Computershare Ltd., along with various, small broker-dealers and trust banks that keep their processing services in-house."