Proxy Solicitation

For nearly 20 years, Broadridge has expertly managed and processed proxies and shareholder mailings for the country’s leading mutual fund companies in the United States. Your organization may already be using one or both of these services. Broadridge, the same company that has managed these critical functions, also offers a sophisticated solicitation operation for mutual funds, completing the toolset that will support every aspect of your proxy process through one integrated system.

• A call center with over 400 seats is backed by a combined total of over 200 years of proxy experience.
  
  
• Keeping with our value proposition, our staff can reduce your solicitation costs by targeting high value accounts first, thereby making quality calls, not quantity, in order to increase your percentage of voted shares, saving you money.
  
  
• The call center is fully dedicated to making calls for mutual fund and annuity proxies. No telemarketing is conducted to fill in the "down" time. This means our resources are always available and prepared for your campaign.
  
  
• Our expert staff has the experience needed to determine, in advance of the mailing, which of your funds will most likely need solicitation. This experience level enables you, the client, to make informed and sound decisions early in the campaign rather than under the pressure of an impending meeting date.
  
  

If your proxy plans call for outbound solicitation to stimulate voter response, we would suggest an approach that has proven to be effective in getting the vote in early. We call it ProxyLite^SM because there’s no heavy lifting and it targets answering machines.

The features of ProxyLite^SM are:

• A fully automated, client-authorized messaging service recorded either by you or a service solicitation professional.
  
  
• Stimulates voting through a carefully controlled program of high-volume, short-duration calls.
  
  
• Statistics indicate initial voter response is 4 to 5 times greater when ProxyLite^SM is utilized.
  
  

Extremely flexible, ProxyLite can be incorporated into the overall campaign from the outset, linked to the mailing of a targeted second solicitation or quickly launched at any time to a selected segment of accounts in lagging funds.