HISTORY
The Altman Group was founded in 1995 by Kenneth Altman primarily to provide clients with strategic management of public securities bankruptcy reorganizations and contested corporate proxy solicitation shareholder meetings.
The firm began providing proxy solicitation services to corporate issuers in 2002 and to mutual funds in 2003. Building on early successes with mutual fund proxy solicitation, in 2004 the firm then expanded and upgraded its original 60-seat call center to a state-of-the-art 300-seat secure facility with capacity for 100,000 shareholder contacts per day. In 2005 the firm became a full service mutual fund proxy provider expanding into mailing and tabulation.
Since 2003, The Altman Group's mutual fund proxy solicitation team has completed more than twenty-five million 25 million calls, recorded over six million (6,000,000) TeleProxies™ and mailed more than 20 million pieces of mail for fund clients. The firm now focuses exclusively on mutual fund proxy mail, tabulation, solicitation, consultation and regulatory mailing services.
In March 2011, the American Stock Transfer & Trust Company LLC, ("AST") acquired the operating assets of The Altman Group, Inc. Leveraging the resources of AST and the global network of Link Group Companies, The Altman Group continues to expand its services and global reach. Our competitive strengths include our uniquely analytical, strategic and focused approach, as well as our commitments to innovation and service. These strengths, along with a cutting-edge technology platform and proprietary analytics, enable the The Altman Group to consistently deliver successful and cost-effective outcomes for clients worldwide.
About AST
American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC and its affiliates in the Link Group Network are leading providers of registry services and technology to financial market participants in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa and the United Kingdom. AST and its partner, Canadian Stock Transfer Company (CST), form the North American division of the Link Group. AST and CST together provide comprehensive stock transfer and employee plan services to more than 8,000 public issuers and over 5.5 million shareholders. The division serves clients located throughout North America and in over 22 foreign countries. Clients served by AST range in size from those completing initial public offerings to Fortune 100 companies.