See the Big Picture

Access Data’s advanced analytics and reporting solutions helps you gain unprecedented access to a wealth of product and market data, which enables you to focus on the information critical to your business and drive asset growth in new markets, improve operational efficiencies and better manage business risk.

New advancements in our Market Intelligence solution opens windows to view product market share for firms and offices, including those where little or no market presence exists today. This enables you to better identify new opportunities for your best products. SalesVision now also offers ETF and Mutual Fund market data so you can track and compare market share at firm and office locations.

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Increasing Capabilities through a Strategic Partnership

2011 proved to be an exciting year with Broadridge’s recent partnership with Charles Schwab. Schwab and Broadridge have entered into an agreement to expand the sales reporting and data delivery capabilities now provided to more than 600 Mutual Fund Sponsors. A technology portal, powered by Access Data, will provide unprecedented access to fund asset, trading and sales information. This will allow mutual funds to gain more visibility into sales across products and a deeper understanding of the Registered Investment Advisory firms that are driving asset growth. Learn more about the Schwab agreement.

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Comprehensive Solutions

Access Data’s Distributor Compensation solution stands at the forefront of helping improve accuracy and mitigate risks associated with manual, spread-sheet processing of third-party distributor and service fee payments. Working in close collaboration with our mutual fund clients, we expanded the product’s calculation capabilities and incorporated workflow processes enabling managers to easily review, approve and track payments. Distributor Compensation goes beyond standardizing the transfer of invoice data to collect and store invoice data and history across distributors, automate payment calculations for complex fee arrangements and streamline invoice reconciliation, approval and payment.

We hosted a webinar entitled “Best Practices for Tracking and Managing Payments to Distributors.” In this discussion with industry experts you will learn the best practices firms are using to eliminate spreadsheets in their operations and improve both the efficiency and the accuracy of payment processing. Click here to access the webinar.

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Delivering Quality Information for Enterprise Business Reporting

Access Data’s Enterprise Data Management automates the collection of trade and transaction information from multiple data sources delivering complete, accurate, consistent and timely information to support sales reporting, customer relationship management (CRM) systems, as well as compensation and compliance processes. Enterprise Data Management enables you to eliminate the operational burden of managing multiple data feeds, researching incomplete trades, and maintaining representative information as affiliations or account assignments changes. Learn more about Enterprise Data Management.

We invested over 40,000 hours this past year to clean and enhance data received daily from third-party data sources on your behalf. Over 900,000 (80,000 per month) new Dealer, Branch and Rep trading code combinations were added to our proprietary Master Data Repository (MDR). In addition, MDR now contains unique identifiers for more than approximately 600,000 registered representatives and 200,000 unique office locations that can be leveraged to gain unmatched visibility into sales across all products and provides access to high quality information to drive business growth.

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Simplifying the Experience

After evaluating years of historical voting preferences and sophisticated predictive modeling opportunities, Broadridge leverages this insight and takes a scientific approach that delivers greater proxy planning accuracy and improved control for mutual fund proxy campaigns resulting in resources being applied to the right shareholder audiences. Optimal Proxy carefully analyzes the infinite details within your shareholder base, and effectively determines the most appropriate and effective proxy approaches including communication options.

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Vote Your Shares from Anywhere

With the addition of Mobile ProxyVote®, investors now have the convenience of voting their shares from the Internet and mobile devices. Mobile ProxyVote provides links to electronic proxy material, the ability to request paper fulfillment and eDelivery enrollment. Mobile ProxyVote is efficient by design, created as a direct response to consumers' rapidly changing preference to access and act on information on the go.

It was even voted “Most innovative mobile solution” by Financial Technologies Forum. This app is compatible with an array of mobile devices, including the Apple iPhone® and iPad®, BlackBerry® Smartphone, AndroidTM, Microsoft Tablets and other smartphone platforms. Learn more about Mobile Proxy Vote.

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Recognized Industry Leader in Fee Disclosure

Broadridge provides “best-in-class” capabilities to help plan sponsors and plan advisors meet fee disclosure requirements. We hosted a series of webinars this fall to help sponsors and advisors understand their regulatory obligations. As a long-time consultative partner on regulatory changes, including the Summary Prospectus Rule and Notice and Access, Broadridge is the partner who understands the changes required by the Retirement Plan Fee Disclosure Rule. Whether you are a compliance officer, a financial advisor or the owner of a TPA, Broadridge’s consultative approach will bring you a solution to help deliver against your business objectives while reducing costs. Broadridge’s fee disclosure capabilities provide the ability to stay focused on the core business – increasing assets under advisement. Learn more about Fee Disclosure.

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The Next Generation of Mail

We expanded our multi-channel communications offerings by adding another distribution channel to our portfolio of communication solutions – Digital Mail. In conjunction with Pitney Bowe’s new Volly^TM secure digital delivery service, Digital Mail, a consumer-focused delivery and consolidation service that enables you to provide your customers with more choice and control over how they receive and manage their financial communications. All communications are integrated into just one mail stream.

The new platform empowers consumers to review, view, organize and manage bills, statements, financial documents and other content from multiple providers. The spam-free application offers improved communications, faster response times and better tracking. You will also enjoy the boost in resources while your clients appreciate a richer, more interactive relationship. Learn more about Volly.

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Expediting Marketing Communications

With the implementation of new technologies such as quick response codes (QR codes) and mobile apps, you can get information in front of your clients faster. QR codes are the newest marketing form and are here to stay. It is a type of 2D bar code that may be decoded using your Smartphone with a QR code reader. Its popularity has grown due to its fast readability and comparatively large storage capacity.

We already began implementing QR codes in our clients’ marketing materials. There is no limit to what you can share with QR codes. Whether you would like to share a landing page with video or an entire eBook, you can quickly build a community and mobilize users to take action. QR codes are especially effective because you can put them anywhere - on your business card, your event nametag, your packaging or any marketing materials. Utilize QR codes to enjoy unprecedented marketing reach with measurable results. Learn more about QR codes.

We surveyed advisors related to their book of business, experience and communication preferences. This intelligence is being used to develop solutions for mobile devices that allow you to tackle the task of doing business with greater ease and efficiency.

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Reach Advisors through Personalized Messages

In 2011 Broadridge developed exciting solutions in cross-media marketing campaigns, offering you more effective, expedient advisors communications at lower cost. Utilizing advances in multimedia connectivity to increase efficiency, Broadridge’s campaign solution provides the tools to quickly create and send targeted messages to advisors. You can send important personalized messages to advisors, making it easy for them to receive timely messages and take action. Advisors are given direct links to your marketing materials which they can read, download and purchase. Most importantly, you can track, analyze, and report on their actions. Our campaign solution is another that way we can help you reduce marketing expenses while improving results.

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Print-on-Demand Savings

With Broadridge’s print-on-demand solution, you no longer need to stock a warehouse full of communications to help assure appropriate investor disclosure at the broker level. Our print-on-demand solution will reinforce relationships between funds and brokers by ensuring that no matter what is requested and when, it can be quickly printed and delivered. It’s no wonder that over 80 fund companies already benefit from this valuable Broadridge service.

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Cut Costs While Increasing Efficiency

Broadridge’s PostEdge® e-delivery solution puts just about any correspondence in your clients' reach quickly, efficiently and securely while helping satisfy SEC retention and archival requirements for statements, confirmations and tax documents. Broadridge manages it all - from obtaining consents, maintaining an electronic delivery preference database, document archiving and web presentation to integrating e-delivery with your printed distributions. Some of the benefits for managers include cutting print, postage and distribution costs by as much as 40% and allowing both centralized and remote users easy access via its web-based platform. PostEdge also offers comprehensive report mining capabilities that help automate many of your daily operations. For shareholders, PostEdge mails speed notifications to shareholders letting them know their documents are ready for viewing and allowing them to view those documents from virtually anywhere.

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