"Connecting Boards & Institutional Shareholders" |
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Trust-Builder Inc. Trust-Builder Inc. was formed in 2004 in response to the growing demand for improved communications between Boards of Directors of listed companies and the key institutional shareholders on whose behalf they have oversight. Recognized as a gap in regulations, various bodies in the USA, UK and Canada have articulated the need for Boards to learn the concerns of these key shareholders. Their intent is to rebuild investor confidence through communication. Poor performance affects all participants negatively - hedge funds notwithstanding. Trust-Builder's associate company API Asset Performance, measures performance of some $300 billion of North American invested pension assets. They place institutional investors with plan assets. This relationship provides Trust-Builder with specific insight into quantifying managers' articulated concerns. API Director Services, Trust-Builder's sister company, provides proprietary information to Boards of Directors on any Canadian issuer's Top 60 pension institutional investors' shareholdings. They control typically some 20%- 40% of each Canadian issuer's float - critical for corporate governance and financing concerns. In Canada, institutional investors control some 80% of any TSX Composite issuer's free-float. While the drivers of a stock's performance may vary, the rise in assets under management for each large institutional investor, and therefore increase in absolute risk for each investment, remains the key driver for vigilance by these institutions globally. They effectively manage on behalf of tens of millions of individual shareholders. Capital is a scarce resource and will gravitate to the lowest risk for return. Trust-Builder is a group of senior professionals specializing in a variety of fields necessary to the purpose of rebuilding investor confidence, trust and its outcome: value creation measured by a lower cost of capital. Each issuer has specific needs. The service selection may be dependent on specific shareholder concerns. We identify what is necessary after discussion and filtering a situation through our Trust-Builder lense. |
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