Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. provides investor communication solutions, and securities processing and operations outsourcing solutions to the financial services industry. The company delivers a range of solutions that help its clients serve their retail and institutional customers across the entire investment lifecycle, including pre-trade, trade, and post-trade processing. It serves a client base across its four businesses, including Bank/Broker-Dealer Communications, Mutual Fund and Retirement Solutions, Corporate Issuer Solutions, and Bank/Broker-Dealer Technology and Operations. Segments The company operates through two segments, Investor Communication Solutions and Securities Processing Solutions. INVESTOR COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS This segment includes Bank/Broker-Dealer Communications, Mutual Funds and Retirement Solutions, and Corporate Issuer Solutions businesses. This segment engages in processing and distributing proxy materials to investors in equity securities and mutual funds, as well as the facilitation of related vote processing. ProxyEdge, the company’s electronic proxy delivery and voting solution for institutional investors and financial advisors, helps ensure the participation of the major stockholders of various companies. The company also provides the distribution of regulatory reports and corporate action/reorganization event information, as well as tax reporting solutions that help its clients meet their regulatory compliance needs. In addition, it provides financial information distribution and transaction reporting services to both financial institutions and securities issuers. These services include processing and distributing account statements, and trade confirmations; traditional and personalized document fulfillment, and content management services; marketing communications; and imaging, archival, and workflow solutions that enable and improve its clients’ communications with investors. All of these communications are delivered in paper or electronic form. In addition, the company provides registrar, stock transfer, and record-keeping services to corporate issuers. Bank/Broker-Dealer Communications The company engages in corporate governance activities. It distributes approximately 1 billion investor communications annually through a combination of physical and electronic channels. The company handles the entire proxy materials distribution and voting process for its bank and broker-dealer clients on-line and in real-time, from coordination with third-party entities to ordering, inventory maintenance, mailing, tracking, and vote tabulation. It offers electronic proxy delivery services for the electronic delivery of proxy materials to investors and collection of consents; maintenance of a database that contains the delivery method preferences of its clients’ customers; posting of documents on the Internet; email notification to investors notifying them that proxy materials are available; and proxy voting through the Internet, mobile devices, and tablets. The company also has the ability to combine stockholder communications for multiple stockholders residing at the same address, which it accomplishes by having ascertained the delivery preferences of investors. In addition, it provides an outsourced solution for the processing of international proxies. It also provides a reorganization communications solution to notify investors of reorganizations or corporate action events, such as tender offers, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, and class action lawsuits. The company also offers its bank and brokerage clients financial information distribution and transaction reporting services to help them meet their regulatory compliance requirements and business needs, including prospectus fulfillment services; electronic prospectus services; PostEdge, its electronic document archival and electronic delivery solution for documents, including trade confirmations, tax documents, and account statements; marketing communications; imaging, archival, and workflow solutions; and on-demand digital print services. In addition, it offers its Mailbox products, including Advi