Boston Globe (May 18)
2017/ 05/ 20 by jd in Global News
“Some complain that the annual shareholder meeting is a vestige of the old days, a tradition whose time has expired in the era of Skype and webcasts. Others insist it’s the last remaining forum for individual investors in publicly traded companies to sit in the same room as a business’s executives and directors.” Despite the efficiencies, “only about 200 out of 10,000 publicly traded US companies hold so-called virtual stockholder meetings.”
Tags: Complain, Directors, Executives, Individual investors, Shareholder meeting, Skype, Tradition, Virtual stockholder meetings, Webcasts
