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- From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: street name vs delivery
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <rlcarr.09ab@animato.network23.com>
- References: <22DEC199211174469@csa2.lbl.gov> <20366@ksr.com>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 23 Dec 92 08:04:43 EST
- Organization: The Other Side of Life
- Lines: 26
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- In article <20366@ksr.com> zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) writes:
- > -> I've identified the following pros and cons for deciding whether to take
- > -> delivery of stock certificates.
- > ->
- > -> pros: * more timely dividends
- > -> * quarterly and annual reports
- > -> * no hassle or illiquid positions if the brokerage firm goes under
- > ->
- > -> cons: * inconvenience of sending certificates back in
- > -> * risk of losing certificates
- > -> * securities cannot be margin collateral
- >
- > I assume you lose your shareholder voting rights if you don't take the
- > delivery, since your shares can be sold short.
-
- That can't be right. I hold my stocks in street name with Waterhouse,
- and I've gotten to vote on all proxy issues on all my stocks (or rather,
- I get a form from Waterhouse which I use to tell Waterhouse how to vote
- on my stocks, since the stocks are, of course, in Waterhouse's name).
- I also still retain the option of actually going to the annual meeting
- as well.
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