NEW YORK, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgeson, a
Computershare company, and the world's foremost provider of
strategic shareholder consulting services to corporations and
shareholder groups, announced today that it launched the Georgeson
inVU platform. This is the first-ever integrated, web-based
platform for both investor relations professionals (IROs) and
corporate secretaries, and it enables deep shareholder insight and
more effective shareholder engagement.
The inVU platform combines the licensed technology and data of
the TMX Group's ir2020 product with proprietary Georgeson research
and data. The inVU platform brings together easy and
insightful shareholder monitoring and targeting tools with powerful
views into investors' voting patterns and profiles, the first time
this type of data has been syndicated.
The Georgeson inVU platform enables powerful collaboration and
coordination activities for IROs and corporate secretaries, helping
to gain understanding about what investors want and how they are
likely to vote. Notable features include the ability to manage
outreach to investors and track progress against goals, create
target lists and gain insight into investor stock ownership. The
platform's easy-to-use tools also enable clients to collaboratively
plan and manage investor events.
"By bringing together collaboration tools with investor
ownership and voting data, the Georgeson inVU platform is ideal for
supporting year-round shareholder engagement," said William Jackson, CEO of Georgeson.
Georgeson hired Agnies Watson – co-founder of ir2020 and a
former IRO – to help develop the inVU platform with the needs of
shareholder professionals kept front and center. Agnies understands
the day-to-day challenges of shareholder professionals and will
oversee developments to the product.
"Previous tools were difficult to use and lacked critical
insight into how investors vote," Agnies said. "As an IRO, I
thought there should be an intuitive and easy way to get the data I
needed. With this new tool, we are now able to offer a
game-changing, simple-to-use platform that helps foster
collaboration between IROs and corporate secretaries and increases
shareholder engagement."
To experience the insight and interactivity of the Georgeson
inVU platform, visit www.georgeson.com/invu.
About Georgeson
Georgeson is the world's foremost provider of strategic
shareholder consulting services to corporations and shareholder
groups working to influence corporate strategy. We offer
unsurpassed advice and representation for annual meetings, mergers
and acquisitions, proxy contests and other extraordinary
transactions. Our core proxy expertise is enhanced with and
complemented by our strategic consulting services, including
shareholder identification, corporate governance analysis, vote
projections and insight into investor ownership and voting
profiles. Our global footprint allows us to successfully provide
comprehensive services worldwide.
For more information, visit www.georgeson.com.
About Computershare Limited
Computershare (ASX: CPU) is a global market leader in transfer
agency and share registration, employee equity plans, proxy
solicitation and stakeholder communications. We also specialise in
corporate trust, mortgage, bankruptcy, class action, utility and
tax voucher administration, and a range of other diversified
financial and governance services.
Founded in 1978, Computershare is renowned for its expertise in
high integrity data management, high volume transaction processing
and reconciliations, payments and stakeholder engagement.
Many of the world's leading organisations use us to streamline
and maximise the value of relationships with their investors,
employees, creditors and customers. Computershare is represented in
all major financial markets and has over 12,000 employees
worldwide.
For more information, visit www.computershare.com.
For more information, please contact:
Ian Eccleston
Computershare
+1 312 768 5421
ian.eccleston@computershare.com
SOURCE Georgeson