The new service called TD Waterhouse Shareholder Voting and Information Service will be available for free to all of TD Waterhouse customers and is provided in a partnership with New York-headquartered
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“At TD Waterhouse we appreciate that not being recognized on the share register has long been an issue for U.K. investors when holding shares electronically with a broker,” said Jason Robinson, director of operations for TD Waterhouse in London. "For this reason we have worked with Broadridge to find a solution that will alleviate this problem for our nominee customers.”
Broker-dealers and banks must notify U.K. companies of the names and communication preferences of beneficial or nominee-name shareholders—those holding their shares in the name of their financial intermediaries instead of their own names. Previously, those investors would only receive proxy material at the discretion of their financial intermediary.