LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR) announced today that
Mobile ProxyVote(R).com is now live and available for proxy
voting and compatible with an array of market-leading mobile devices,
including Verizon's new Apple iPhone(R) 4, as well as the
BlackBerry(R), Android(R), Microsoft(R) ,
tablets and other smartphone platforms.
"The availability of ProxyVote on thousands of mobile devices is in
direct response to consumers' rapidly changing preference to access and
act on information on the go -- on their mobile device," said Robert
Schifellite, President, Investor Communication Solutions, Broadridge.
"Investing in technologies to provide shareowners choice and ease of use
in receiving and acting on their proxy materials is in line with our
efforts to increase individual shareholder participation."
"Mobile ProxyVote is easy to use," explained Joseph Vicari, Vice
President, Business Strategy and Development, Broadridge. "There is no
software to download and no fee for the corporate or mutual fund issuer
or the shareholder. All a shareholder needs to do is access
ProxyVote.com from their mobile device and simply vote."
Twenty million proxy votes were recorded through the Broadridge
ProxyVote.com platform for the 12 months ending June 2010. ProxyVote
offers "street name" and registered shareowners, as well as 401(k), ESOP
and ESPP participants, the convenience of voting their shares on the
Internet, and now with the introduction of Mobile ProxyVote, through
compatible mobile devices.
The initial product announcement was made at Broadridge's annual
Investor Communications Conference in December 2010, which attracted
hundreds of top executives from the nation's leading financial services
firms, institutional investors and corporate issuers.
ProxyVote.com is a registered trademark of Broadridge Financial
Solutions, Inc., iPhone is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.,
BlackBerry is a registered trademark of Research in Motion Limited,
Android is a trademark of Google, Inc., and Microsoft is a registered
trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries.
About Broadridge
Broadridge is a technology services company focused on global capital
markets. Broadridge is the market leader enabling secure and accurate
processing of information for communications and securities transactions
among issuers, investors and financial intermediaries. Broadridge builds
the infrastructure that underpins proxy services for over 90% of public
companies and mutual funds in North America; processes more than $3
trillion in fixed income and equity trades per day; and saves companies
billions annually through its technology solutions. For more information
about Broadridge, please visit www.broadridge.com.
Source: Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.