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Recent News

Winter 2026

Ohio Exacerbates Expropriation of Personal Property Through New Escheatment Law

On July 1, 2025, Ohio’s Governor approved a budget bill for fiscal 2026 that codifies a permanent 10-year maximum window for Ohio residents to recover “unclaimed” property escheated to the state. In other words, unlike elsewhere in the U.S., even if you can prove you are the rightful owner of property (including stock and related cash) which was escheated to the state more than ten years ago, YOU CANNOT TAKE DELIVERY OF IT! It’s gone! The state has taken it FOREVER!
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Fall 2025

A proxy advisory firm recommendation is not a proxy solicitation

That was the conclusion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on July 1, 2025, handing a victory to Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and other such proxy voting advisors.  ISS had fought the SEC’s change in 2020 to the 1934 Exchange Act’s Section 14(a) whereby all of a sudden proxy advisors were subject to “enhanced disclosure requirements” that proxy solicitors must deal with.
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Helpful Hint

Protect your shareholders’ stock and cash from escheatment, enhancing your investor relations

States in the U.S. have become increasingly greedy.  They hire “contingent fee auditors” to sniff out stock and cash on transfer agents’ books which they CLAIM are property “abandoned” by shareholders –...
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Term of the Month

Precatory

Precatory means expressing a wish or desire, rather than a legal obligation to perform.  Relative to annual shareholder meetings it describes company management proposals like say-on-pay, or any shareholder proposals.  I.e., management needs to “face up to” the voting outcomes on such proposals if they were not what it hoped for, but it is technically not required to act on them.  That said, management usually acknowledges such negative results at least, and promises to seriously evaluate them.

Quote of the Quarter

“Stocks take the escalator up and the elevator down.” ~ Old Wall Street saying