New Platform for Shareholder Opinion

In the US, Owners Research Group (ORG) has launched a research platform through which shareholders can voice their opinions and priorities on issues impacting firms they invest in.

New York-based ORG facilitates communication and understanding between shareholders and corporate directors. The new platform aggregates and anonymously presents a composite picture of shareholder opinion directly to the Board.

The system is currently being tested by shareholders of telecoms firm Telephone & Data Systems (TDS), where ORG has invited more than 330 institutional TDS shareholders to participate in the test of the investor consensus survey. When the survey closes, ORG will aggregate, analyze and distribute the summary results to TDS Directors and to all survey participants.

'Our system is broadly applicable to the universe of publicly traded companies,' explained ORG co-founder and MD Eli Danziger. 'Our key objective is to generate shareholder feedback that is useful to Boards by facilitating interaction between the two groups.'

Web site: www.ownersresearchgroup.com .

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